Susan Egan - Softly

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:54
Size: 91.4 MB
Styles: Vocal
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:30] 1. Nocturnes
[3:53] 2. Think Of Me
[4:03] 3. Embraceable You /'til There Was You
[2:29] 4. Love To Me
[5:08] 5. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
[3:09] 6. Anyone Can Whistle/Not While I'm Around
[3:17] 7. Make Believe
[2:37] 8. Lay Down Your Head
[4:02] 9. With You
[2:20] 10. A Quiet Thing
[5:21] 11. I Wish You Love

Softly is the culmination of Egan’s more than twenty-five years as a celebrated vocalist in the entertainment industry. Teaming with classical pianist and composer, Stephen Cook, and acclaimed Cuban jazz flutist, Danilo Lozano (album producer), Susan brings the music of her beloved Broadway to a mainstream audience with an easy, elegant, acoustic sound. Variety has called Susan’s soprano “beguiling in the extreme” and the New York Post labels her “divine.” Now, in light delivery, accompanied by Los Angeles’ best musicians, you will hear why. Whether relaxing with a bottle of wine or lulling the baby to sleep, Softly sets the mood and delivers distinguished hits of the New York stage in a way you have never heard before.

Softly

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Susan Egan - Softly

Styles: Vocal, Musicals/Broadway
Year: 2015
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:54
Size: 102,0 MB
Art: Front

(3:30)  1. Nocturnes
(3:53)  2. Think of Me
(4:03)  3. Embraceable You/'Til There Was You
(2:29)  4. Love to Me
(5:08)  5. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
(3:09)  6. Anyone Can Whistle/Not While I'm Around
(3:17)  7. Make Believe
(2:37)  8. Lay Down Your Head
(4:01)  9. With You
(2:20) 10. A Quiet Thing
(5:21) 11. I Wish You Love

Susan Egan: Softly is the culmination of Egan’s more than twenty-five years as a celebrated vocalist in the entertainment industry. Teaming with classical pianist and composer, Stephen Cook, and acclaimed Cuban jazz flutist, Danilo Lozano (album producer), Susan brings the music of her beloved Broadway to a mainstream audience with an easy, elegant, acoustic sound. Variety has called Susan’s soprano “beguiling in the extreme” and the New York Post labels her “divine.” Now, in light delivery, accompanied by Los Angeles’ best musicians, you will hear why. Whether relaxing with a bottle of wine or lulling the baby to sleep, Softly sets the mood and delivers distinguished hits of the New York stage in a way you have never heard before. More...https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/susanegan1

Softly

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Lee Lessack - In Good Company

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:21
Size: 170,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:35)  1. Lee Lessack With Nita Whitaker - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
(3:50)  2. Lee Lessack With Susan Egan - The Look Of Love
(3:09)  3. Lee Lessack With Jon Philip Alman - Sweet Mystery
(4:39)  4. Lee Lessack With  Mary Jo Mundy - Never Saw Blue Like That
(4:56)  5. Lee Lessack With  Brian Lane Green - Opens Arms
(6:15)  6. Lee Lessack With Ann Hampton Callaway - Bring Back Romance
(3:50)  7. Lee Lessack With Johnny Rodgers - Here's To You
(5:13)  8. Lee Lessack With Joanne O'Brien - Summer Wine
(4:54)  9. Lee Lessack With Franc D'Ambrosio - Vincero Perdero
(4:54) 10. Lee Lessack With Maureen McGovern - If You Go Away
(4:05) 11. Lee Lessack With Stephen Schwartz - For Good
(3:15) 12. Lee Lessack With Susan Werner - Blue Guitar
(3:58) 13. Lee Lessack With David Burnham - Let It Be Me
(3:31) 14. Lee Lessack With Amanda McBroom - The Rose
(4:42) 15. Lee Lessack With Ken Page - Vincent
(3:54) 16. Lee Lessack With Stacy Sullivan - Stay the Night
(4:34) 17. Lee Lessack With Michael Feinstein - May I Suggest

No one is working harder than Lee Lessack to keep the increasingly fragile art of cabaret singing on life support. To date, he has released more than 100 discs by some 70 artists (including himself) on his L.A.-based LML label. But never before has Lessack launched so overt an assault as with this 17-track collection that pairs him with a brigade of the genre's top singers and players. The results are uniformly lovely, especially when Lessack joins forces with Susan Egan on "The Look of Love," Maureen McGovern on "If You Go Away," David Burnham on a slow-roasted "Let It Be Me" and composer Stephen Schwartz on the magical "For Good" from his score for Broadway's Tony-winning Wicked.

Trouble is, despite the accuracy of its title, In Good Company lacks cabaret's most essential spice-variety. The all-ballad assortment is like a damask table runner: beautiful and tasteful, but ultimately just passively decorative. The one notable-indeed, soaring-exception is his teaming with keyboardist Johnny Rodgers (who coproduced the album with Lessack and whose band backs each track) on the Rodgers-penned "Here's to You" that pays superlative homage to Simon and Garfunkel. ~ Christopher Loudon  http://jazztimes.com/articles/16099-in-good-company-lee-lessack

Personnel: Lee Lessack (vocals); David Burnham , Franc d'Ambrosio, Joanne O'Brien, Ken Page, Michael Feinstein, Amanda McBroom, Nita Whitaker, Ann Hampton Callaway, Stacy Sullivan, Stephen Schwartz, Susan Egan, Susan Werner, Maureen McGovern, Jon Philip Alman, Mary Jo Mundy, Johnny Rodgers, Brian Lane Green (vocals); Joe Ravo (guitar); Una Tone (violin); Wolfram Koessel (cello); John F. Rodgers (piano, organ); Danny Colfax Mallon (drums); Tom Harrell (trumpet, flugelhorn).

In Good Company

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Susan Egan - The Secret Of Happiness

Size: 102,1 MB
Time: 43:30
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. A Musical Apology (2:30)
02. All Things In Time (3:59)
03. Bridge Over Troubled Water (5:54)
04. Children Will Listen (Duet With Georgia Stitt) (2:48)
05. Cock-Eyed Optimist (3:04)
06. From The Stars (Isla's Song) (3:39)
07. I Have You (3:29)
08. Momsense (3:00)
09. Nina Doesn't Care (3:13)
10. The Me Of The Moment (3:40)
11. The Secret Of Happiness (2:54)
12. The Wanting Of You (5:15)

Best known for her Tony-nominated performance in Beauty and the Beast and her role as Meg in Disney's Hercules, star of stage and screen Susan Egan's fifth studio album, The Secret of Happiness, is a refreshingly tongue-in-cheek affair that showcases a sense of humor often absent from similar musical theater-based albums. Having given birth to two children since 2006's Winter Tracks, it's no surprise that her recently extended family appears to have provided much of the inspiration for its 12 theatrical tracks, whether it's the orchestral cover version of "Momsense," Christian comedian Anita Renfroe's YouTube sensation that reeled off her everyday sayings against a backdrop of The William Tell Overture; the emotive duet with producer Georgia Stitt on a rendition of "Children Will Listen," Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods Broadway number based on the relationship between child and parent; or the self-penned "Nina Doesn't Care," a delightfully self-deprecating account of her daughter's disinterest at having a Disney Princess as a mom. She's just as playful elsewhere, whether it's her simple acoustic take on Christine Lavin's regretful roll call of insults hurled during a fight ("And I was kidding when I said I hope the #103 bus hits and makes a pancake out of you"), her unique declaration of love on the heartfelt piano balladry of "I Have You" ("Newton had his apple/Michaelangelo had the Sistine chapel...I have you"), or her breezy jazz-tinged interpretation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific standard "Cock-Eyed Optimist." A gorgeously hushed and understated reworking of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and the string-soaked self-help guide of the title track are proof, if any were needed, that she can play the leading lady just as well as the comic foil. But The Secret of Happiness is undoubtedly at its most endearing when it doesn't take itself too seriously. ~Review by Jon O'Brien

The Secret Of Happiness

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