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| Three Mo' Tenors | 
 enlarge | Artists: Thomas Young, Roderick Dixon, Victor Trent Cook
Label: RCA Victor
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 58713
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 63827
UPC: 090266382729
EAN: 0090266382729
ASIN: B00005LVVC
Release Date: July 24, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: CD, new, same as above, SEALED, notch on side of case (remainder), excellent, ships from southern California (dd)
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| Tracks:
| • | La Donna e Mobile | | • | Let the Good Times Roll | | • | Make Them Hear You | | • | Ah! Mes Amis. | | • | Ellington Medley | | • | The Jazz Cat & Minnie the Moocher | | • | Twisted | | • | Nessun Dorma | | • | Today I Sing the Blues | | • | Soul Medley | | • | Have You Heard / Glory | | • | Were You There | | • | America The Beautiful | | • | Gospel Medley |
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Amazon.com
Inspired by the astoundingly popular The Three Tenors series, Broadway director Marion J. Caffey conceived and directed Three Mo' Tenors, bringing greater visibility to the classically trained African American voice. Starring seasoned tenors Roderick Dixon, Thomas Young, and Victor Trent Cook, Three Mo' Tenors is a theatrically staged concert set taped for public television's Great Performances. A companion to the taped show, the disc features just over an hour of live music from it. The phenomenal showmanship of Dixon, Young, and Trent Cook takes shape in the styles of opera, Broadway, blues, jazz, soul, spirituals, and gospel. The three virtuosos hit high C's with clarity and brilliance; scat with grace and grit; belt, bend and hold a note to beat the band. They move the audience to a state of near-ecstasy performing the traditional "Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)" and Puccini's glorious "Nessum Dorma." Other standouts include the jazz classic "Twisted," a rollicking version of "Today I Sing the Blues," and the salty "Minnie the Moocher." Boisterous, bold, and bountiful, Three Mo' Tenors is a modern classic. --Paige LaGrone
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| Customer Reviews: Read 56 more reviews...
Three Mo' Tenors Dazzle August 7, 2001
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
After listening to my Three Mo' Tenors CD, I didn't want to waste any time letting the WORLD know about this extraordinary, amazing concert CD. I've long appreciated the Three Tenors...but watch out, move over, stand aside! Three Mo' Tenors rocks! With fabulously polished voices they span 400 years of music paying tribute to African American tenors. From opera, to spirituals, blues, r and b, showtunes, gospel and jazz -- they had me jumping, singing along, crying and feeling oh so good! What a moving concert CD....something all ages would enjoy. If you want a CD you can play morning, noon, night, when you're happy, when your'e blue, when you want to just feel good...then you'll love Three Mo' Tenors in Concert. Check out the rendition of "Twisted" -- one of my all time favorties...and the Ellington Medley, and the opera. Bravo! Three Mo' Tenors in Concert, I predict, will be America's next musical sensation!
WOW! July 25, 2001
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
Picked this up when looking for something else...an impulse buy. Great impulse! Saw these guys on "My Favorite Broadway-The Love Songs", and although they didn't actually fit into the program, they were great. African-American tenors, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young, and Victor Trent Cook are incredible separately and together. Cook has "Smokey Joe's Cafe" on Broadway in his credits. Dixon appeared on Broadway in "Ragtime". Young is a legit operatic tenor. These guys whip back and forth between Broadway numbers "Make Them Hear You" (Ragtime), classic R & B "Midnight Train to Georgia", classic jazz "Let the Good Times Roll" "Minnie the Moocher", and opera "La Donna E Mobile" "Ah! Mes Amis". Incredible sounds from these guys, recorded live at The Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. Pick it up today!
Must Have March 27, 2002
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I returned from hearing The "Three Mo'Tenors" live 2 hours ago. And just finished listening to the CD again. They are that good! One Tenor better than the one before. Live they sang for 2 1/4 hours and I wanted more. Live they perform about 7 more songs than on the CD, and of course all the songs on this CD. Imagine the same three rich Tenor voices crossing seven musical forms and spanning four centuries of music. This is what is on this CD. Put the CD in your player and sit back while these tenors take you on a fantastic, memorable and awe inspiring musical journey through the worlds of opera, Broadway, jazz, blues, soul, spiritual and gospel. You will play this over and over. Do yourself a favor buy the CD (DVD) and go see them live. You will feel the concert. Just wounderful.
Three Mo Tenors - Glorious Music August 14, 2001
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I am enraptured by the gifted and talented Three Mo Tenors. I never tire of playing the CD and watching the program on PBS. Each time is pure joy--I hear something new that delights me. My entire family - 6 years old to 78 years old - loves to listen to the Three Mo' Tenors. There is something for everyone - all kinds of music, all heavenly sung. The orchestra was equally outstanding. Thank you Thomas Young, Roderick Dixon, and Victor Trent Cook. You touched my soul!!!! I can hardly wait until the next CD.
A Journey August 5, 2001
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
The African-American tenor is a phenomena unto itself...without going into the social/political ramifications of this within the singing world - particularly the opera world - upon hearing this album, you will recognize the true phenomena that it is... These three tenors - Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon and Thomas Young embody the truth of music from the soles of their feet through the tops of their heads and out their fingertips! A scope of 400 years is recognized on this album, and the ease in which it is interpreted is second to none. All three tenors have extraordinary credentials and ooze musicality, personality and deftness of allowing each style to color their sound - moving with grace and ease from "La Donna e mobile" through "Twisted" to "America the Beautiful". Each voice is uniquely characterized - Dixon's tender melancholy and textural rhythmic intensity in"Make Them Hear You"; Victor Trent Cook's almost smokey countertenor whine in "The Jazz Cat"; Thomas Young's poignant depth in "Nessun Dorma" that touches the frozen tears in one's soul; This album is recorded live - and colours and bends its way through your mind and your heart...try it! I will bet you won't be the same after experiencing it.
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