PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Baker's landmark fifth album was mostly self-produced, with the R&B and soul singer writing five of the album's twelve songs. The first single, Body and Soul, became Baker's first Top 40 hit in over five years; I Apologize would later net her another Grammy. Other tracks include Plenty of Room; It's Been You; Wrong Man ; her take on the classic My Funny Valentine, and more.

AMAZON
Anita Baker is a legendary vocal embellisher; she can hold the end of a line and bend that final syllable through several notes in her trademark smoky alto, thus giving the lyric an extra emotional twist. Audiences love this sort of vocal ornamentation, and a singer must resist the temptation to overdo it, for at a certain point, decoration becomes clutter. Unfortunately, Baker succumbs to that temptation on her new album, Rhythm of Love, which is so embellished with slides, moans and trills it's often difficult to find the songs underneath it all. --Geoffrey Himes