Patti LuPone - The Lady With The Torch

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2006
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:29
Size: 111,6 MB
Art: Front

(2:32)  1. The Man I Love
(2:37)  2. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
(4:08)  3. Something Cool
(3:29)  4. A Cottage For Sale
(4:02)  5. I'll Wind
(3:15)  6. I Wanna Be Around
(4:08)  7. The Other Woman
(4:00)  8. Do It Again
(3:26)  9. Early Autumn
(4:03) 10. I'm Through With Love
(3:18) 11. So In Love
(2:30) 12. My Buddy
(4:08) 13. Body And Soul
(2:47) 14. Don't Like Goodbyes

Musical theater star Patti LuPone rarely releases solo albums, and when she does, they often serve as the audio equivalents of the nightclub acts she assembles for the periods when she isn't appearing in a musical. The Lady with the Torch is one of those musical souvenirs, based on a concert she developed with Scott Wittman gathering together a series of torch songs drawn from the Great American Songbook of Harold Arlen, George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter, Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, and others. Frank Sinatra perfected this sort of concept album in the 1950s with such LPs as Only the Lonely, and LuPone follows the formula well in a distaff manner, giving voice to female characters who long for idealized love, cry over love lost, vow revenge, or decide to quit the whole sorry mess. Jonathan Tunick provides punchy, supportive orchestrations for a small jazz band, and LuPone sings with her usual fervor. The victimization and self-pity in many of the lyrics don't actually suit her, however; she is at her best getting her own back, notably in "I Wanna Be Around," and she deliberately throws in a few songs that don't exactly fit the mold, such as the sexy "Do It Again" and "So in Love." Still, it's easy to imagine her putting this set across effectively in a concert hall or nightclub. ~ William Ruhlmann https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lady-with-the-torch-mw0000762228

The Lady With The Torch

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Patti LuPone - Far Away Places

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:07
Size: 141,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:52)  1. Gypsy In My Soul
(3:00)  2. Night Life
(0:57)  3. Back Then...
(4:54)  4. Bilbao Song
(4:11)  5. Far Away Places
(3:24)  6. Black Market
(5:29)  7. Come To The Supermarket In Old Peking
(1:28)  8. I Have Sicilian Blood
(3:21)  9. I Wanna Be Around
(0:50) 10. Ah The Sea Is Blue
(2:38) 11. I Cover The Waterfront
(4:19) 12. Pirate Jenny
(3:25) 13. By The Sea
(0:50) 14. I Do All Kinds Of Accents...Just Like Meryl
(2:34) 15. I Regret Everything
(3:07) 16. Hymn To Love
(4:33) 17. Travelin' Light
(0:53) 18. Give My Regards To Broadway
(3:53) 19. Nights On Broadway
(4:20) 20. September Song

[Patti] embodies decades of show business history. And her brilliant show, conceived and directed by her longtime collaborator, Scott Wittman, deserves many lives, perhaps even a Broadway run in an expanded edition. It certifies Ms. LuPone's place in the lineage of quirky international chanteuses like Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, who, like Ms. LuPone, conquered show business with forceful, outsize personalities while playing by their own musical rules. ~ New York Times

Every now and again there comes an experience that you immediately know you will always remember. That happened for me at Patti LuPone's cabaret evening 'Far Away Places,' christening the snazzy new nightclub 54 Below, which occupies the basement of Studio 54. LuPone levitated the audience of Broadway insiders in the intimate room, compellingly designed by John Lee Beatty in the style of a 1920s speakeasy, as effortlessly as she might flash one of her sly smiles. It was, simply, magic. ~ Backstage https://www.amazon.com/Far-Away-Places-Live-BELOW/dp/B009OYOVLW

Far Away Places

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