Love Comes Quietly
Released: May 2, 2006
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Released: May 2, 2006
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Love Comes Quietly, issued on Leni Stern's own LSR imprint -- thank God she was smart and got off the label-chasing bandwagon years ago to do exactly what she wanted to do -- is her 15th album...
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Finally the Rain Has Come
Released: Jun 18, 2002
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Released: Jun 18, 2002
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Guitarist/vocalist Leni Stern's 13th recording is constructed upon contemporary jazz-pop-type motifs. The artist's proclamations concerning peace and love are intertwined with the sad events...
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Kindness of Strangers
Released: Sep 26, 2000
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Released: Sep 26, 2000
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Whenever a jazz instrumentalist takes up non-jazz singing, he/she is bound to be denounced as a sellout -- just ask George Benson, George Duke, and Patrice Rushen, all of whom were routinely...
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Recollection
Released: Sep 15, 1998
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Released: Sep 15, 1998
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Leni Stern has evolved during her career from a lyrical guitarist and inventive composer into a folk singer in the late 1990s. This single CD is...recommended to very versatile listeners who do not...
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Black Guitar
Released: Aug 5, 1997
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Released: Aug 5, 1997
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Ms. Stern introduces us to her singing on Black Guitar. Vocally she strikes me as unimpressive, but I feel this has more to do with the trite lyrics than her delivery, which is sufficiently...
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Secrets
Released: Sep 24, 1988
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Released: Sep 24, 1988
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Leni Stern utilizes such impressive sidemen as fellow guitarist Wayne Krantz, tenor-saxophonist Bob Berg, Lincoln Goines or Harvie Swartz on bass and drummer Dennis Chambers on eight selections,...
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Clairvoyant
Released: Dec 16, 1985
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Released: Dec 16, 1985
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Leni Stern's debut as a leader is most notable for two guitar duets ("Someday My Prince Will Come" and "Stella by Starlight") with her teacher, Bill Frisell. The duets act as a change of pace on a...
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For the Kindness of Strangers/Carry Me
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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This 7" single gives us two examples of Leni Stern's moving songwriting and superb, jazz-inspired guitar. Leni's voice gently climbs from a conversation tone to an angelic lilt in such a way to...
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