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Date: 1999
Type: Audio / Vocal Recording
Method: Studio
Language: English
Music: Vernon Duke (38)
Producer: Robert Hurwitz (20), Tommy Krasker (62)
Performer: Fred Hersch (5), John Pizzarelli (12), Dawn Upshaw (10), Ric Wilson
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Format: CD
Label: Nonesuch 79531
Released: 1999-01-19
Barcode: 075597953121
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Length: 1:30:25
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Tracks: 1. Round About (from Sweet Bye And Bye)
2. Born Too Late (from Littlest Revue)
3. The Love I Long For (from Sadie Thompson)
4. Autumn in New York (from Thumbs Up)
5. The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull (from Sweet Bye And Bye)
6. Remember or Forget (from Five Victorian Songs)
7. Not a Care in the World (from Banjo Eyes)
8. Words Without Music (from Ziegfeld Follies of 1936)
9. Swattin' The Fly (from Dancing In The Streets)
10. April In Paris (from Walk A Little Faster)
11. I Like the Likes of You (from Ziegfeld Follies of 1936)
12. Low and Lazy (from Sweet Bye And Bye)
13. Water Under the Bridge (from Ziegfeld Follies Of 1934)
14. Ages Ago (from Time Remembered)

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Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48:
Amazon.com Editoral Review: Dawn Upshaw's vocals have graced a heap of recordings, none of them quite like this collection of Vernon Duke's songs. Duke, composer of such musicals as Cabin in the Sky, which has a rousing full soundtrack from the 1943 film production, wrote variously sugary and Gershwin-esque pop songs along with some "serious" music. Upshaw breezes through the pop and Gershwin-colored items, offering them a level of vocal clarity that's rarely matched. The arrangements are lovely, and with lyrics by Ogden Nash, Ira Gershwin, and Howard Dietz, the songs are apt for Upshaw's sly spin on pop vocals. Sure, Upshaw's sung Rodgers and Hart and some Gershwin, but she's also done great classical recitals, like those around Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. So the playful rundowns of Duke's poppier material might only hint at Upshaw's full range (as evidenced by Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 and her collection of Debussy songs), but they're fun and colorful. Indeed the excerpt from Duke's 1942 "Five Victorian Songs" is nicely more complex. And if you're wondering where to hear Upshaw singing in a decidedly more adventurous context, dig into the Arditti String Quartet's second Schoenberg collection and the Kronos Quartet's Night Prayers. --Andrew Bartlett

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