Lara Downes - Billie Holiday Songbook [New CD]

Description: Lara Downes - Billie Holiday Songbook [New CD] Artist: Lara Downes Title: Billie Holiday Songbook Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2015 Label: Steinway & Sons UPC: 034062300266 Genre: Classical Artists Album Tracks1. 01. Yesterdays2. 02. God Bless the Child3. 03. Blue Moon4. 04. Willow Weep for Me5. 05. Don't Explain6. 06. Body and Soul7. 07. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You8. 08. I Wished on the Moon9. 09. Them There Eyes10. 10. Billie's Blues11. 11. Good Morning Heartache12. 12. the End of a Love Affair13. 13. What a Little Moonlight Can Do14. 14. Ain't Nobody's Business15. 15. Strange Fruit16. 16. I'll Be Seeing You17. 17. Lover Man18. 18. I'm a Fool to Want You19. 19. I'll Be Around20. 20. I Cover the Waterfront21. 21. (In My) Solitude22. 22. But Beautiful • 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 blendCopyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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