April 21, 2010

Anita Baker is moving forward with plans to record her next album.

Planning to work with George Duke, Nathan East and Daniel Moore, Baker is heading to Nashville.

“I’m going to Nashville to mix it up, shake it and see what comes out," Baker said in a statement Monday.

According to the singer, Nashville was selected as a spot to record in part because, she explains, “they still know how to make a record in analog.”

While a release period has not been set for the project, which will also include Baker’s collaboration with Snoop Dogg on a “big, lush” version of Curtis Mayfield’s “Give You My Love” that she promises “is going to raise eyebrows,” the album will be full of fresh material and could be in stores this fall.


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Going to? It already IS.

I'm excited to hear this though,,,I already know beforehand that George Duke will bring something beautiful from her. It seems that the man has the midas touch when it comes to working with female vocalists, he knows he tick them off.

Identity said:

On those points alone, I'm interested in hearing the final product.

wait and see.

Harlepolis said:

George, is what Quincy USED to be. Before he lost his mind, that is.

She needs to go to Nashville and record because the first time I ever heard of her which was her song "You'll Fall And Hurt Yourself" back in 1986, I thought my radio dial had accidently got bumped from 99.7 (which was an R&B station) over to 99.1 (which was a country station at the time).

Digital dials were not popular back then and I had a rotary dial. I kept switching back and forth and hearing country on 99.1 and what I thought was country on 99.7. I was getting pissed because I thought our best R&B station at the time had changed their format to country.

a collaboration with Snoop Dogg?

SoulAlive said:

oh lawd..

It sounds like to me she's finally willing to step outside of her comfort zone that she's been stuck in for the past 25 years. It's refreshing to hear because that last CD was such a snoozer! I don't remember a single song on it.

a year ago, she was going to be recording a jazz album with Prince

vainandy said:

funkpill said:

Yeah,it doesn't sound promising at all.

Anita Baker has made the same damn album every year, you only need one, take your pick.

TD3 said:

I'll choose 'Rapture'

SoulAlive said:

Remember when Lutha had Foxy Brown on one of his shits? I reacted to that the same way I'm reacting to this.

SoulAlive said:

Hell that was her best album by far.

Timmy84 said:

Timmy84 said:

That collaboration was absolutely cringe worthy.
I loved Luther as much as any fan, but the track with Ms Ill Na Na would've better served if her verses had been removed.

Timmy84 said:

Yep,it was horrible.Makes no sense.Anita Baker and Luther Vandross appeal to a different type of audience....a mostly adult R&B/Quiet storm audience who don't even listen to hip-hop.These types of collaborations are pointless and embarrassing.

CHICAGO – When Anita Baker leaves the stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this weekend, she doesn't plan on taking anything with her.

Baker has headlined in the Crescent City before, but five years after Hurricane Katrina, she says "I think that we're more adamant about just leaving my whole body there. And just giving everything that I have. Because we want them to be entertained."

The 52-year-old singer with the husky, red velvet vocals has won eight Grammy Awards for hits including "Giving You the Best That I Got," "Rapture" and "I Apologize."

She'll step away from a music studio in Nashville where she's working on a new album, just in time for Sunday's show. It will be an opportunity "to play, talk and holler and scream and dance," she says.

Performing before live audiences is Baker's thing. She and her crew have been playing a roster of summer dates every year since 2004.

"That's the main reason I haven't done a record," says Baker. "The VP of A&R, Eli Wolf (of Blue Note Records), pulled me off the road — came to Radio City (Music Hall) Valentine's Day weekend."

Now that she's back in the studio — more than 25 years since her debut album was released — Baker says, "Oh my goodness. I'm just having a good time."

But she's nervous, too.

"It's always scary. But it's scary for different reasons. For example in '05, it was scary because I hadn't done it in 10 years. Now it's scary because my fans have proven to me that we're family and I don't want to let them down."

Among her fans is "Queen of Hip-hop Soul," Mary J. Blige, who has asked Baker to join her on a jazz album.

"Mary and I — I have a song, and we've talked about it," says Baker. "I have a retro piece that we're cutting today that I'm going to send to her."

Baker says she looks forward to the collaboration.

"These young ladies have just really empowered me for the 21st century. I mean that just touches me. And just the support that these ladies give me is amazing. They just give me an energy that I didn't know I would have right now."

YESSS I've waited for this collaboration since FOREVAH!

What's up with all the hate on the collabo with Snoop? He would not ruin it as long as he refrains from talkin bout pimps and hos and clubs and stuff.

It's a good thing esp. for him cuz he's a big fan of hers.

TD3 said:

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I'll take the same Anita Baker CD over and over again over the shit that passes for RnB these days.

kitbradley said:

nah...totally disagree

laurarichardson said:

TAWK!!!!

Anita is also planning to release a new DVD, "An Evening with Anita Baker", which was recorded live at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota, in 2008.


She has not yet announced a release date.

Harlepolis said:

well if they aren't going to be in the same room working on it, there's a chance that it might actually happen

Let's post the WHOLE article and not delete:

http://blog.taragana.com/...st-112490/

Anita Baker headlines New Orleans jazz festival


CHICAGO — When Anita Baker leaves the stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this weekend, she doesn’t plan on taking anything with her.

Baker has headlined in the Crescent City before, but five years after Hurricane Katrina, she says “I think that we’re more adamant about just leaving my whole body there. And just giving everything that I have. Because we want them to be entertained.”

The 52-year-old singer with the husky, red velvet vocals has won eight Grammy Awards for hits including “Giving You the Best That I Got,” ”Rapture” and “I Apologize.”

She’ll step away from a music studio in Nashville where she’s working on a new album, just in time for Sunday’s show. It will be an opportunity “to play, talk and holler and scream and dance,” she says.

Performing before live audiences is Baker’s thing. She and her crew have been playing a roster of summer dates every year since 2004.

“That’s the main reason I haven’t done a record,” says Baker. “The VP of A&R, Eli Wolf (of Blue Note Records), pulled me off the road — came to Radio City (Music Hall) Valentine’s Day weekend.”

Now that she’s back in the studio — more than 25 years since her debut album was released — Baker says, “Oh my goodness. I’m just having a good time.”

But she’s nervous, too.

“It’s always scary. But it’s scary for different reasons. For example in ‘05, it was scary because I hadn’t done it in 10 years. Now it’s scary because my fans have proven to me that we’re family and I don’t want to let them down.”

Among her fans is “Queen of Hip-hop Soul,” Mary J. Blige, who has asked Baker to join her on a jazz album.

“Mary and I — I have a song, and we’ve talked about it,” says Baker. “I have a retro piece that we’re cutting today that I’m going to send to her.”

Baker says she looks forward to the collaboration.

“These young ladies have just really empowered me for the 21st century. I mean, Miss Beyonce doing ‘Sweet Love’ on her live video — I mean that just touches me. And just the support that these ladies give me is amazing. They just give me an energy that I didn’t know I would have right now.”

inia said:

If it's som'n similiar to what Dr. Dre did with Toni Braxton's Just Be A Man About, then I'm with it