Audrey Lavine - This Is No Dream

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2000
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:59
Size: 117,7 MB
Art: Front

(4:27)  1. This Is No Dream/Out Of This World
(2:36)  2. How Long Has This Been Going On?
(1:42)  3. Fascinating Rhythm
(3:01)  4. Honey, Can I Put On Your Clothes?
(2:19)  5. Holiday For Strings
(3:20)  6. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
(6:44)  7. Wail Of The Reefer Man/Caramel/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
(2:43)  8. Egyptian Ella
(2:36)  9. She's Always A Woman
(2:22) 10. Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia
(4:30) 11. One Mint Julep
(2:28) 12. Waltz Me To Heaven
(3:21) 13. How Sad No One Waltzes Anymore
(4:13) 14. I Had Myself A True Love
(2:01) 15. Shaking The Blues Away
(2:28) 16. When You Wish Upon A Star

Audrey Lavine's initial album, This Is No Dream, grows out of one of her cabaret shows of the same name which was instrumental in her being awarded the 2001 Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist. This album demonstrates Lavine's understanding and mastery of the essence of cabaret. This becomes immediately apparent with the eclectic, multi-generational program, which runs the gamut from familiar standards, including "How Long Has This Been Going On," to the tongue-in-cheek "Egyptian Ella" and then to a sultry, provocative "One Mint Julep," where she engages in some heart-to-heart patter. Then there's a combination of edgy in-the-gutter, down-in-the-dumps tunes: "Wail of the Reefer Man," "Caramel," and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." Then she does a one-woman reprise of the Boswell Sisters' version of "Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia." More versatility is heard as Lavine turns from the glib and flip to an absolutely enthralling, dramatic "This Is No Dream," done in a stunningly pure soprano. It is with the latter style that she leaves the listener with "When You Wish Upon a Star" as the album's coda. Irrespective of the type of song she is presenting or her mannerisms in doing so, Lavine remembers that the main role of cabaret is to tell a story. It's the words that count even more than the music in which they are embedded. The music may make the toe tap, but it's the words that touch the heart one way or another. 

She gets plenty of help during this performance from Ross Patterson on piano, Ratzo B. Harris on bass, and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Heick, cabaret veterans all. Showcasing the keenly honed multi-dimensional singing endowments of a top cabaret performer, this maiden album is highly recommended. ~ Dave Nathan https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-is-no-dream-mw0000116713

This Is No Dream

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Audrey Lavine - At Home With Arlen

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2002
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:31
Size: 114,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:14)  1. Ill Wind
(2:13)  2. As Long As I Live
(3:43)  3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(3:25)  4. Happy With The Blues
(4:59)  5. I Never Has Seen Snow
(2:47)  6. Look Who's Been Dreaming
(4:18)  7. It Was Written In The Stars
(3:46)  8. Song Of The Gigolo
(4:17)  9. Paris Is A Lonely Town
(3:48) 10. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
(2:36) 11. Sweet And Hot
(5:04) 12. Last Night When We Were Young
(3:16) 13. Love Held Lightly

Audrey Lavine is the winner of the 2001 Bistro Award (Outstanding Vocalist) and MAC Award (Female Vocalist), for her shows This is No Dream and Dancing presented at the FireBird Café and Judy's Chelsea, was a featured performer in the 2002 MAC Awards at Town Hall, and a 2002 Nightlife Awards finalist (Outstanding Cabaret Female Vocalist) for her show Simply Lavine, presented at Judy's Chelsea and Don't Tell Mama. Audrey's intriguing theatrical past includes having been tapped to stand by or understudy some of the great leading ladies of our day. First heard on Broadway in Moony Shapiro Songbook, she was understudy to Judy Kaye. She survived covering for both Betty Buckley and Barbara Cook in the infamous Carrie. And in Rags, in which she can be heard as Rosa on the Broadway cast recording, she was understudy for Teresa Stratas. In the 70's and 80's Audrey could be seen at the Ballroom with Alan Menken, Ted Hook's OnStage with Michael Renzi, Freddy's with Michael Abene, the Stage Door Canteen as a featured guest in the Ladies of Off-Broadway series, the King Cole Room with Robert Morse and Lynn Thigpen in a tribute to Frank Loesser, and at the Kennedy Center in a tribute to George Gershwin. Her retrospectives of Harold Arlen and Stephen Sondheim were part of the Citicorp Salute to Great American Songwriters, and led to a stint as a headliner on the s.s. Rotterdam World Cruise. Regional theater appearances are evidence of her vocal and performing range. She won a Carbonnel Award nomination for her portrayal of Jo Carlson in the premiere of Cowgirls, portrayed Anna Held in Tintypes, Rhetta Cupp in Pump Boys & Dinettes, and was Bebe Neuwirth's wife in Happy Birthday and Other Humiliations by Judith Viorst and Shelley Markham. Audrey graduated with a degree in Opera from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Originally from Greensboro, North Carolina, she currently lives in Manhattan with her husband, actor/director H. Clark Kee. Her CD of This is No Dream was released in the fall of 2000, just in time for the first of her critically acclaimed appearances at the Mabel Mercer Foundation's Annual Cabaret Convention at Town Hall. Her second CD, based on her last project of 2001, At Home With Arlen, was released in September 2002. http://www.audreylavine.com/bio.html

At Home With Arlen

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