Bill Charlap Trio – Stardust: The Music Of Hoagy Carmichael (2002) [SACD Release 2003] [SACD / Blue Note – SA41746]

Title: Bill Charlap Trio – Stardust: The Music Of Hoagy Carmichael (2002) [SACD Release 2003]
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Bill Charlap is one of the strongest mainstream jazz pianists on the scene and one of the most gifted interpreters of standards. Stardust is a wonderful album, which began a series of albums that focused on a single composer. Stardust featured the music of Hoagy Carmichael. Features the special lineup of guest stars like Tony Bennett, Shirley Horn & Jim Hall.

There’s a fitting symmetry implicit in Bill Charlap’s latest Blue Note release. It’s a symmetry born from purity of purpose, illuminated on 1 end by the timelessness of Hoagy Carmichael’s Americana, & asserted at the other by the clarity of Charlap’s touch. Charlap negotiates the music of Carmichael as if he’s lived it always – an impressive sleight-of-hand considering the disparate backgrounds from which these jazzmen come: One was inspired by lazy Indiana summers; the other by the fast-break rhythms of New York. What gives the album that extra touch is the special lineup of guest stars like Tony Bennett, Shirley Horn & Jim Hall.

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Tracklist:

01. Jubilee
02. I Get Along Without You Very Well
03. Rockin’ Chair
04. I Walk With Music
05. Two Sleepy People
06. The Nearness Of You
07. One Morning In May
08. Blue Orchids
09. Georgia
10. Stardust
11. Skylark

Personnel:

BELL CHARLAP – piano
KENNY WASHINGTON – drums
PETER WASHINGTON – bass
with special guests:
TONY BENNETT, SHIRLEY HORN, JIM HALL and FRANK WESS

Note:

Produced by JOEL MOSS.
Arranged by BILL CHARLAP.
Recorded & Mixed by JOEL MOSS.
Recorded September 6-8, 2001 The Hit Factory, NYC.
Assistant engineers: CRAIG DURRANCE and CHRIS TESTA.
Digital editing by JAN FOLKSON.
Edited & Mixed at Jan Folkson Productions.
Mastered by RIC WILSON Digisonics, Northridgc, CA.
Produced & Remixed for 5.1 SACD by Joel Moss at Sony Studios, NYC.
Assisted by Dave Swope. Mastered for SACD by Darcy Proper at Sony Studios, NYC.

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