Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You

 
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Jerome Kern Songbook - The Song Is You

[ Jazz Giants Play / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 12 October 2005

A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition. He and his collaborators also employed his melodies to further the action or develop characterization to a greater extent than in the other musicals of his day, creating the model for later musicals. Although dozens of Kern's musicals and musical films were hits, only Show Boat is now regularly revived. Songs from his other shows, however, are still frequently performed and adapted. Many of Kern's songs have been adapted by jazz musicians to become standard tunes. (Wiki)

Tracks:

1.
Song Is You (Keely Smith)
2.
Look for the Silver Lining (Chet Baker)
3.
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Clifford Brown)
4.
Let's Begin (Anita O'Day)
5.
They Didn't Believe Me (Johnny Hartman)
6.
In Love in Vain (Lena Horne)
7.
The Way You Look Tonight (Art Pepper Quintet)
8.
Pick Yourself Up (Nat King Cole)
9.
I Won't Dance (Peggy Lee)
10..
Yesterdays (Miles Davis)
11.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Thelonious Monk)
12.
Last Time I Saw Paris (Four Freshmen)
13.
A Fine Romance (Billie Holiday)
14.
Bill (Shorty Rodgers)
15.
Why Was I Born? (Johnny Hartman Sextet)
16.
Who? (Ben Webster)
17.
Make Believe (Peggy Lee)
18.
Ol' Man River (Kenny Dorham Quintet)
19.
I'll Be Hard to Handle (Ella Fitzgerald)
20.
All the Things You Are (Lee Konitz)
21.
Nobody Else But Me (Sarah Vaughan)
22.
Long Ago (And Far Away) (Benny Carter & Oscar Peterson)
23.
You couldn't be Cuter (Ella Fitzgerald)
24.
I'm Old Fashioned (Johnny Smith)
25.
Folks Who Live on the Hill (Dakota Staton)
26
Song Is You (Charlie Parker Quartet)