Don't Worry, Be Happy

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艺人: Bobby McFerrin
语种: 英语
厂牌: EMI
发行时间: 1988年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Kieran McCarthy

For the casual pop music fan, Bobby McFerrin is the one-hit wonder who snapped, popped, and sang himself to 15 minutes of fame with 1986's &Don't Worry, Be Happy.& For jazz aficionados, he is a gifted composer and vocal virtuoso, capable of precocious vocal transitions and gorgeous intonations. Don't Worry, Be Happy, a 1988 EMI release, is an attempt to consolidate the breadth of McFerrin's talent onto one album. Predictably, it starts off with the title track, a song that will probably remain prevalent in pop culture as long as humans speak English and play music. For the most part, though, the pop stops there. On a couple of cuts, he teams up with jazz pianist Chick Corea. The duo works well together, producing an ambient, mostly piano version of &Even for Me& and a romanticized rendition of &Round Midnight.& Jon Hendricks and Manhattan Transfer help out with Dizzy Gillespie's &Another Night in Tunisia,& for which McFerrin won a Grammy in 1985. Thankfully, the album does well to give testament to the greatest example of McFerrin's genius: his five-octave range and glowing appreciation for his craft. On &Manana Iguana,& he jumps all over the score, making it sound as if it were easy to move from treble to bass clef in a single note. On &I Love Music,& he toys with a live concert audience, egging them on to play along with him in his step-by-step vocal maneuvering. The sequencing of songs is questionable, though, making for a jarring listen at times. It starts off with pop, moves into jazz, goes back to energetic simplicity, and then retreats to slow jazz. Nonetheless, the songs themselves are still fantastic. A better Bobby McFerrin Greatest Hits could be made, but Don't Worry, Be Happy still serves as rewarding introduction to an absolute musical treasure.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

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