Downes, Lara: Billie Holiday Songbook
Downes, Lara: Billie Holiday Songbook
Format: CD
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Artist: Downes, Lara
Label: Steinway & Sons
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 034062300266
Genre: Classical Artists
• Steinway & Sons celebrates the iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday's centenary with an album of songs she made famous, arranged for solo piano by New York-based composer and pianist Jed Distler and performed by Steinway Artist Lara Downes. • The result is a musical portrait of the singer's life. • Transcending historical divisions of genre, Lara programs songs including God Bless the Child, Strange Fruit and But Beautiful with works of the period by jazz-influenced concert composers including Ravel, Schulhoff, Ellington, Copland, Florence Price and Gershwin, capturing the essence of what defines the unique sound of American art music and our American legacy. • Born in San Francisco of Caribbean and Russian heritage, Lara Downes has garnered wide acclaim as one of the most exciting and communicative pianists of today's generation, lauded by NPR as "a delightful artist with a unique blend
Tracks:
1.1 01. Yesterdays
1.2 02. God Bless the Child
1.3 03. Blue Moon
1.4 04. Willow Weep for Me
1.5 05. Don't Explain
1.6 06. Body and Soul
1.7 07. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
1.8 08. I Wished on the Moon
1.9 09. Them There Eyes
1.10 10. Billie's Blues
1.11 11. Good Morning Heartache
1.12 12. the End of a Love Affair
1.13 13. What a Little Moonlight Can Do
1.14 14. Ain't Nobody's Business
1.15 15. Strange Fruit
1.16 16. I'll Be Seeing You
1.17 17. Lover Man
1.18 18. I'm a Fool to Want You
1.19 19. I'll Be Around
1.20 20. I Cover the Waterfront
1.21 21. (In My) Solitude
1.22 22. But Beautiful
