Plays My Fair Lady & A Dozen Great Standards

Andre Previn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 27, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B000M344ZW
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #416,196 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Get Me To The Church On Time

2. On The Street Where You Live

3. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

4. Wouldn't It Be Loverly?

5. Ascot Gavotte

6. Show Me

7. With A Little Bit Of Luck

8. I Could Have Danced All Night

9. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

10. Take The 'A' Train

11. This Can't Be Love

12. Should I?

13. Hallelujah!

14. Just One Of Those Things

15. September In The Rain

16. Lullaby Of Broadway

17. Black And Blue

18. I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling

19. Honeysuckle Rose

20. Who's Sorry Now?

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PREVIN AND FRIENDS DELIGHT ON TIMELESS PIANO JAZZ, April 28, 2007

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A. POLLOCK (PLYMOUTH, DEVON United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Andre Previn has diversified his talent through classical and piano jazz with composing credits too comprehensive to detail. His piano skills, utilised to devastating effect on a series of show scores, reached ultimate perfection on the most celebrated of these when Andre teamed with drummer Shelly Manne and Leroy Vinnegar on double-bass for jazz-tinged songs from the newly-opened MY FAIR LADY in 1956. Listening to brilliant interpretations of GET ME TO THE CHURCH ON TIME, I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE, SHOW ME and five others, is indeed worth the price of this compilation alone but a previous teaming with Shelly Manne in 1953 also brings forth HONEYSUCKLE ROSE and BLACK AND BLUE.

Previn's earlier expertise is also recalled by standards recorded in 1946/47, with Ellington's I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN'T GOOD and TAKE THE "A" TRAIN heading equally impressive versions of THIS CAN'T BE LOVE and JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS from Richard Rodgers and Cole Porter respectively. Such seminal recordings display the extent of influence eminent keyboard stylists, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson and Nat King Cole played on Previn's developing piano skills with overall this collection displaying a timeless quality.

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, January 27, 2008

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A. Sharp (Australia) - See all my reviews
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Andre Previn's interpretation of MFL's perfect melodies breathe new life into the wondrous score. It's as if he has reinvented those familiar tunes, allowing us to hear them in a completely new way. Can we call this genius?

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Early effort., May 28, 2007

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A. C. Herrick (Nor. Cal.) - See all my reviews

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This is one of Previn's early efforts. Easy listening piano jazz interpretations of My Fair Lady and other broadway type tunes. It is a pleasant listening but not up to his later standards.