Over and Over is the second studio album

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 released by jazz

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 vocalist Erin Bode

Erin Bode

Erin Bode is an American singer, reluctant to be classified as a jazz vocalist. Though Bode began her recording career in 2001, she has already garnered much praise...

. It was recorded over three days in mid-May 2005 and released on January 31, 2006 by the label Max Jazz. This album, more than her first, sees Bode being likened to fellow jazz vocalist Norah Jones

Norah Jones

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.

This is the first album that contains songs almost exclusively penned by Bode and her collaborator, pianist Adam Maness. The three exceptions are two pop covers (Paul Simon

Paul Simon

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's "Graceland

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," Simply Red

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's "Holding Back the Years") and a jazz standard ("Alone Together").

Track listing

1. "Holiday" (Maness) — 4:35
2. "Over and Over" (Bode, Maness) — 4:24
3. "Graceland" (Simon) - 4:58
4. "June" (Bode, Maness) — 4:13
5. "Feet Off the Ground" (Bode, Maness) — 3:17
6. "Long, Long Time" (Bode, Maness) — 5:39
7. "Send Me Up a Sign" (Bode, Maness) — 2:40
8. "St. Louis Song" (Bode, Maness) — 4:05
9. "Perfect World" (Bode, Maness) — 4:35
10. "Something More" (Bode, Maness) — 3:57
11. "Holding Back the Years" (Hucknall) — 4:08
12. "With the Radio On" (Bode, Maness) — 2:52
13. "Alone Together
    Alone Together (song)
    "Alone Together" is a song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Flying Colors in 1932 by Jean Sargent....
    
    " (Dietz, Schwartz) — 6:31
14. "Home Again" (Bode, Maness) — 2:23

Personnel

Band:

• Adam Maness — vocals, piano
• Erin Bode — vocals, liner notes
• Syd Rodway — bass
• Chris Higginbottom — drums

Guest performers:

• Seamus Blake — saxophone (tenor)
• Dave Eggar — cello
• Josh Mease — guitar (acoustic), vocals (bckgr)

Production:

• Pressley Jacobs — art Direction, design
• Dena Katz, Jimmy Katz — photography
• Katsuhiko Naito — engineer, mastering, mixing
• Max Ross — assistant engineer

Reception

Reviews of the album, mainly grounded in the jazz community, have been positive. George Graham, founder of WVIA-FM

WVIA-FM

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 88.9 and jazz expert, calls the album "a more rewarding recording that not only highlights a charming voice, but also gives us worthwhile new songs, and creative, but understated arrangements." Allaboutjazz.com (AAJ) calls Bode "a sorceress of female jazz vocals" with "superior songwriting talent." Allmusic (AMG) gave the album four out of five stars, calling it a "quiet, but engrossing album."

Particular interest focused on the groups' cover of Simon's "Graceland". Jim Newsom of PortFolio Weekly called it "a rich reinvention" and AMG reviewer Stewart Mason described the song as being "transformed from the South Africa

South Africa

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n country ramble into something closer to Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

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's late-'70s fusion period". AAJ reviewer C. Michael Bailey also paralleled the tune with Mitchell and called it "an offbeat, off-time jazz ballad" Graham said that Bode's "Graceland" was "a creative and rather jazzy arrangement ... [a] distinctive new spin."

Charts

Album - Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
2006	Top Jazz Albums	17