Tracks: 1. Warm Spring Night [King David]
2. There’s a Room in My House [A Family Affair]
3. Don't Ever Leave Me [Sweet Adeline]
4. Haunted Heart [Inside U.S.A.]
5. Heaven In My Arms [Very Warm For May]
6. Evening tar [cut from Lady Be Good]
7. My Romance [Jumbo]
8. Out of My Dreams [Oklahoma!]
9. When in Love [King David]
10. Silly People [cut from A Little Night Music]
11. Sailing at Midnight [Sadie Thompson] -- Rebecca Luker and Philip Chaffin
12. That's All
13. If It Is True [My Life With Albertine]
14. You’ve Come Home/You’re Far Away From Home [Wildcat/cut from Wildcat]
Posted 2008-02-19 18:39:42: Amazon.com: Tenor Philip Chaffin's Warm Spring Night is a rich and romantic follow-up to his Where Do I Go from You?, which was the inaugural release for the label he co-owns with producer Tommy Krasker, PS Classics. While that solo debut was big-band-themed, Warm Spring Night is more eclectic, collecting a number of less-familiar love songs by well-known songwriters, such as Kern and Hammerstein ("Don't Ever Leave Me," "Heaven in My Arms"), Schwartz and Dietz ("Haunted Heart"), George and Ira Gershwin ("Evening Star"), and Stephen Sondheim ("Silly People," cut from A Little Night Music). Other unusual fare includes two songs from Menken and Rice's King David (the title tune, "When in Love"), and Ricky Ian Gordon and Richard Nelson's "If It Is True" (from My Life with Albertine). Most of the songs are accompanied by a lush orchestra, but Jeff Harris's piano is the only accompaniment in the highlight of the album, the standard "That's All" (no, not the Genesis song), which with "My Romance" and "Out of My Dreams" proves that great standards can coexist happily with unfamiliar fare in a classy setting such as this. --David Horiuchi
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