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A Billie Holiday Songbook / Lara Downes
Lara Downes
Release Date:
03/10/2015
Label:
Steinway & Sons
Catalog #:
30026
Composer:
Jerome Kern , Billie Holiday , Richard Rodgers , Ann Ronell ...
Performer:
Lara Downes
Number of Discs:
1
Recorded in:
Stereo
Length:
1 Hours 5 Mins.
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Notes and Reviews
Steinway & Sons celebrates the centenary of iconic jazz singer Billie Holiday 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.
"Possibly the most intriguing Holiday tribute may be this one by pianist Lara Downes. The adroit pianist goes solo in interpreting songs associated with the vocalist. At times she gives rococo hints of Art Tatum, other times a classica straightforwardness comes in. The tunes such as “Yesterdays” “Blue Moon” and “What A Little Moonlight Can Do” come and go before you know what happened, clocking in between 1-2 ½ minutes.
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Most of the tunes are concise like this, but “Strange Fruit” and “I Cover The Waterfront” are patiently drawn out, with space making wonderful sounds. A focus on the lyrical side of the Holiday Songbook that works well." -- George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
“Downes possesses shimmering tone, expansive lyricism, attentiveness to tonal color and mood dynamics, and nimble articulation. Her interpretation is meditative, poetic, almost dreamy at times, as she appears to merge the voice of her instrument with the voice of the singer heard through the filter of Downes’ own imagination. ” — Fanfare Magazine
“Ms. Downes plays each piece lovingly, caressingly, soulfully... you have to concede that no one could do them any better. We practically hear Holiday behind the piano.” — John Puccio: Classical Candor
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1.
Roberta: Yesterdays
Composer:
Jerome Kern
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1933 USA
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Length:
2 Minutes 13 Secs.
2.
God bless the child
Composer:
Billie Holiday
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1941 USA
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
3 Minutes 26 Secs.
3.
Manhattan Melodrama: Blue Moon
Composer:
Richard Rodgers
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1934 USA
Date of Recording:
6/6/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
1 Minutes 17 Secs.
4.
Willow Weep for Me
Composer:
Ann Ronell
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Date of Recording:
6/6/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
3 Minutes 37 Secs.
5.
Don't Explain
Composer:
Billie Holiday
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
2 Minutes 58 Secs.
6.
Body and Soul
Composer:
Johnny Green
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1930 USA
Date of Recording:
6/6/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
2 Minutes 19 Secs.
7.
I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
Composer:
Victor Young
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
2 Minutes 59 Secs.
8.
I Wished On The Moon
Composer:
Ralph Rainger
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
3 Minutes 1 Secs.
9.
Them There Eyes
Composer:
Maceo Pinkard
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
USA
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
3 Minutes 29 Secs.
10.
Billie's Blues
Composer:
Billie Holiday
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
3 Minutes 17 Secs.
11.
Good Morning Heartache
Composer:
Irene Higginbotham
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
2 Minutes 57 Secs.
12.
The End of a Love Affair
Composer:
Edward C. Redding
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
2 Minutes 28 Secs.
13.
What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Composer:
Harry M. Woods
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
1 Minutes 30 Secs.
14.
Ain't Nobody's Business
Composer:
Porter Grainger
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Length:
3 Minutes 31 Secs.
15.
Strange Fruit
Composer:
Abel Meeropol
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
4 Minutes 0 Secs.
16.
I'll Be Seeing You
Composer:
Sammy Fain
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1938 USA
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
3 Minutes 41 Secs.
17.
Lover Man
Composer:
Jimmie Davis
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1942 USA
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
2 Minutes 48 Secs.
18.
I'm a Fool to Want You
Composer:
Frank Sinatra
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
3 Minutes 0 Secs.
19.
I'll Be Around
Composer:
Alec Wilder
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1939 USA
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
2 Minutes 18 Secs.
20.
I Cover the Waterfront
Composer:
Johnny Green
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Venue:
Sono Luminus Studios, Boyce, Virginia
Length:
4 Minutes 11 Secs.
21.
Solitude
Composer:
Edward "Duke" Ellington
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1934 USA
Date of Recording:
6/4/2014
Length:
2 Minutes 56 Secs.
22.
But Beautiful
Composer:
James Van Heusen
Performer:
Lara Downes (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
6/5/2014
Length:
2 Minutes 43 Secs.
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