Styles: Vocal
Year: 1990
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 57:11
Size: 131,5 MB
Art: Front
(6:43) 1. Stormy Weather
(3:23) 2. When Your Lover Has Gone
(4:48) 3. 'Round Midnight
(3:23) 4. The End of a Love Affair
(5:26) 5. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
(4:49) 6. Something Cool
(5:08) 7. I Get Along without You Very Well
(6:04) 8. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
(5:00) 9. Black Coffee
(4:31) 10. Don't Explain
(3:15) 11. Get Out of Town
(4:35) 12. This Time the Dream's on Me
Singer whose style and approach have jazz connections, but whose sound is more in a show business, pre-rock pop vein than an improvising mode.
She has recorded albums of standards in '90s for Reference label. ~ Ron Wynn https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eileen-farrell-sings-torch-songs/995325617
Sings Torch Songs
Eileen Farrell was one of the great American operatic sopranos of the 20th century and, as an opera singer, she is said to have had one of the biggest voices in the business. She is also, arguably, the inventor of the crossover album. But in which direction? First she did pop, then she did opera (including a half-decade stint at the Met in New York). Then she went back to pop. Thing that impresses me about this album, though, is that unlike other opera singers who have taken a stab at popular music, Farrell did it really well. To me, performers like Pavarotti, Carreras and Plácido Domingo, when they do their Christmas albums and other commercial schlock, invariably sound like the musical equivalent of overgrown adults trying to stuff themselves into small children’s clothing with the result that you always think they’re going to burst that clothing at the seams. Farrell somehow got popular music from the inside. Listen to the way she shapes a phrase. Sometimes she’ll swell it out at the beginning and you might think for a fraction of a second that she’s going to go full operatic. But then she brings it back down to size again. Great album – and I have not yet listened to, or even downloaded, the Farrell album of Rodgers and Hart that Giullia posted previously. That’s got to be quite good, tôo. It was a fascinating – and very peculiar – one-of-a-kind career. If you don’t know any of the details (and who would nowadays?), it’s worthwhile reading the Farrell bio on Wikipedia. The story is even more interestingly (and perplexingly) told in Anthony Tommasini’s NY Times obit of the lady at https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/arts/eileen-farrell-soprano-with-a-populist-bent-dies-at-82.html , if you have access, and there’s also an interesting bio at http://www.cantabile-subito.de/Sopranos/Farrell__Eileen/hauptteil_farrell__eileen.html. Just a couple of details. She was married to a New York City policeman. She lived on Staten Island. She disparaged opera for its pretentiousness and consequently didn’t get on all that well with the New York Met’s GM and unbending guardian of high culture Rudolf Bing. Very nice album.
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