Blue Dahlia

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Album Description
Lush female vocals on a beautiful muscial landscape. For the lilth festival minded crowd. Band Members: Karla Westscott, Michelle Graf, Derek Menchinger, Carolyn Koebel

Tracks:

Stardust
Love Is Here To Stay
Ill Wind
I Want To Talk About You
Brazil/Aguarela Do Brasil
Night And Day
In The Still Of The Night
Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)

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Blue Blood (Special Edition, 2CD)
X Japan
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000NP9QIE

Product Description

Officially Released only in Japan and Korea. Special Edition of Japanese Rock Act's 2nd Album Coming with Bonus CD. (CD-2/Instrumental Tracks) 01 BLUE BLOOD 02 WEEK END 03 X 04 ENDLESS RAIN 05 Kurenai 06 CELEBRATION 07 ROSE OF PAIN 08 UNFINISHED

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Black Dahlia
Bob Belden
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008XESI
Release Date: 2003-06-10

Tracks:

Genesis
In Flight
Dawn
City of Angels
Dreamworld
Prelude to Love
Danza d'Amore
Zanzibar
Black Dahlia
Edge of Forever (Last Night at the Hacienda Club)
101 North
Elegy (City Lights, Prayer, Procession and Ascension)

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Art of Life
X Japan
Manufacturer: Waner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000RQUBZQ

Product Description

1 Track only Full-Length Album from Japanese Rock Act. Original Release is Exclusive to Japan and Korea.

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Hauntingly Enchanting!

Blue Dahlia
Blue Dahlia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001N2Q5
Release Date: 1997-06-15

Tracks:

Just For You
Strange Ways
Tether
Look Up
In Absentia
Angel Wings
Fate
Silouette
Invisible
Drenched
Intoxicate
Colored Ribbons

Album Description

Lush female vocals on a beautiful muscial landscape. For the lilth festival minded crowd. Band Members: Karla Westscott, Michelle Graf, Derek Menchinger, Carolyn Koebel

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Hauntingly Enchanting!.......2000-03-24

I highly recommend this CD. I have not found a CD since that is as ethereal as this one.

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This Floating World
BLUE DAHLIA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000MAW7PE

Product Description

1 Wolf in the Wind 2 Rue Dauphine 3 Love and Hate 4 Dervish 5 This Floating World 6 Watch How the Rain Comes in Waves 7 Sans Souci 8 Farther Up and Farther In

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Live At the Vickers' Theater
Blue Dahlia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000P6EQ2M

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" A goth-tinged, dream-pop-style band with medieval and ethnic touches à la Dead Can Dance, Blue Dahlia formed in Kalamazoo, MI, in 1995, when three members of a local goth/darkwave band -- Derek Menchinger (guitar), Karla Wescott, and Michelle Graf -- decided to embark on a new project. They hooked up with drummer/percussionist Carolyn Koebel and began writing material; their eponymous debut CD was released in 1997 on the small California independent label Saint Thomas. Vocalist Leslie Boughton replaced Wescott in 1998, and the group contributed the Boughton-penned single "Bridge the River Seoul" to the DivaNation compilation Cicatrix: The Ritual Scarring. Bassist Becky Pingston became a member of the group in mid-1999, and additional vocalist Amy Kozak also joined in early 2000, by which time Graf was gone. The four-song EP Estival was released in summer 2000, featuring songs and recordings both old and new (every past and present member of the band appeared on at least one track). In 2001, the group was selected as a finalist in the Coke-sponsored New Music Awards contest for unsigned bands, and also released the new full-length album Live at the Vickers' Theatre." Steve Huey, All Music Guide ~ ~ ~ Tracks include: Fate, Binary, James Shannon, I Knew Stars, Gun Go Do Pa Ta, Just Like That, Shadowbox, Smokin' Joe & the White Tornado, Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops, Della Sophia, Bridge the River Soul, Dervish, and Little Monster.

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A Tribute to Frank Sinatra
Blue Dahlia
Manufacturer: Cleopatra
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005AKC5
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

All the Way
How About You
New York, New York
Angel Eyes
They Can't Take That Away from Me
Somethin' Stupid
Way You Look Tonight
Night and Day
Prisoner of Love
Laura
I've Got You Under My Skin
I Cover the Waterfront

Album Description

Passionate new recordings by L.A. based jazz supergroup The Blue Dahlia. Including Sinatra classics 'New York, New York', 'The Way You Look Tonight', 'Night And Day' and 'All The Way'. 12 tracks in all. The Blue Dahlia are Athan Maroulis (Spahn Ranch), Skip Heller (collaborator with Yma Sumac, Katy Moffatt and Big Sandy) and DJ Bonebrake (X) among others. Standard jewel case housed in a slipcase. 2001 release.

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Looking for Black Dahlia music?
Melodious, seductive, and etheral
Beautiful. Listen to this with headphones.
Soundtrack for the Film Noire movie that never was
A Life Story

Black Dahlia
Bob Belden
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000059Q88
Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

Genesis
In Flight
Dawn
City Of Angels
Dreamworld
Prelude To Love
Danza D'Amore
Zanzibar
Black Dahlia
The Edge Of Forever (Last Night At The Hacienda)
Freeway (101 North)
Elegy (City Lights, Prayer. Procession & Ascension)

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Composer, arranger, and tenor saxophonist Bob Belden's 12-part orchestral tribute to Elizabeth Short recalls her as the "Black Dahlia," the dark-haired Hollywood actress who was killed in 1947. In this moving and moody work Belden evokes Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, Chico O'Farrill, and Shorty Rogers. Belden employs an impressive cohort, including trumpeters Tim Hagans and Lew Soloff, tenor saxman Joe Lovano, and pianists Marc Copland and Kevin Hays. In this sprawling score they move from the hyper-speed tempo of "Genesis" and the Sketches of Spain tinges of "Dream World" and "Zanzibar" to the misty Billy Strayhorn-like title track and end with "Elegy," which features a rare tenor sax solo by Belden that recalls the elliptical phrases of Wayne Shorter. With this opus Bob Belden begins this century with inspiration and imagination. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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Looking for Black Dahlia music?.......2006-08-10

Love this idea. Creative, self contained vision. I found a pop/rock song about Beth that you can find on Amazon under the artist name: "James Tipper" on his latest album "Haunted Mind" . Throw this album and Tipper's in your changer and you have the story told from different angles. Pretty cool.

Melodious, seductive, and etheral.......2003-03-04

Belden's tribute to Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia), an aspiring actress who was brutally murdered in the late 1940s, is an amazingly-crafted work that also mirrors the dreamlike music of Chinatown and other film noir pieces. A soundtrack without a movie, Black Dahlia instills a mythical and fantastic world around Short's difficult and lovelorn life, creating moods and atmospheres with some of jazz's top talent.

Beautiful. Listen to this with headphones........2002-09-19

I have listened to this CD over and over. I listen to it at
work with headphones. It's very beautiful, haunting, mysterious.
There are lots of levels to the songs; lots going on. The
percussion, the strings, woodwinds, piano, etc. fit together
perfectly.

Soundtrack for the Film Noire movie that never was.......2002-04-30

As is stated below, Elizabeth Short was a real life actress who came to L.A. with big dreams, and less talent, in the late thirties/ early forties. A striking beautiful, pale woman, she always dressed entirely in black. She had some bit parts. She was out of work. She descended into to twilight L.A. demi-monde. She met a gruesome death, a bizarre murder, still unsolved.

Bob Belden's music is quite successful at evoking the dark mid 40's, murky, moody, boozey environment that surrounded her life like a thick fog. The CD has the feel of a soundtrack for a film noir movie that has yet to filmed. Like "Chinatown", or "L.A. Confidential". But real soundtracks don't have the substance of this set of pieces on a common theme. Evocative. Similar to work by Charlie Haden & The Quartet West.

The trumpet part, as is said elsewhere, is reminescent of the lost-in-a-crowd melancholy of classic early Miles Davis. The orchestration doesn't overwhelm the solo voices. The earlier music starts out perky and upbeat, goes down tempo quickly. The end of the album is a fast Cuban/Latino song, she was last seen at a bar that featured hot latin Jazz, but most songs are dark and moody.

Read up on Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia, turn the lights down, close your eyes, turn on the music and watch your own movie in your head!

A Life Story.......2002-01-07

This CD is the musical story of Elizabeth Short. The composer became fascinated with the life of a woman who, seeking love and the fulfillment of her dreams, found despair and an early death instead. This story is passionately told.
Although the CD has a music noir feeling running through it, especially cuts 1, 4,5 and 9, there is a lot of other interesting jazz. "In Flight" and "101 North" are real burners. "The Edge of Forever" is a high energy orchestral celebration. "Zanzibar" has a distinctly African flavor. And "Danza d'Amore" is a chance for Joe Lovano to showcase his considerable skills.
All of the cuts have a distinct theme and are there to tell the story. Each has a musical message. I really like the music on this CD and highly recommend it. It's one of my top ten jazz CD's of 2001.

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Jealousy (Special Edition, 2CD)
X Japan
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000NPBONY

Product Description

Officially Released only in Japan and Korea. Special Edition of Japanese Rock Act's 3rd Album Coming with Bonus CD. (CD-2/Instrumental Tracks) 01 Silent Jealousy 02 Miscast 03 Desperate Angel 04 Voiceless Screaming 05 Stab Me In The Back 06 Joker 07 Say Anything

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