Standards & Ballads - A new compilation release for Wynton
Wynton has a new release, Standards & Ballads, coming from Columbia/Legacy. (available on CD and MP3).
The new CD includes 14 classics such as Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust, ” the Gershwins’ “Embraceable You, ” Rodgers & Hart’s “Where Or When, ” Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne’s “I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry, ” Vernon Duke’s “I Can’t Get Started, ” and nine more, including Duke Ellington’s “Flamingo.”
Standards & Ballads is one of his most accessible, featuring tender renditions and beautiful arrangements of some of the best-known love songs of all time.
ZS said
on February 1, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
Beautiful……..but…..no songs composed by Wynton included?.
In The Magic Hour there are few master pieces that could appear,hand by hand, with the titles here listed……..well.
ZS
CJD said
on February 2, 2008 @ 11:58 am
ZS, read the liner notes there are a few original compositions included on the CD.
Colin Mark said
on February 2, 2008 @ 1:49 pm
Spring Yaounde is an original composition….
and it’s beautiful !!!!