Sings the Songs of Jerome Kern - With Dick Hyman at the Piano

Sandy Stewart | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Audiophile
• ASIN: B000001UQH
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,051 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nobody Else But Me

2. Medley: Bill/Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

3. They Didn't Believe Me [The Girl from Utah, 1914]

4. How'd You Like to Spoon With Me? [From the Earl and the Girl]

5. All the Things You Are [From Very Warm for May, 1939]

6. I'm Old Fashioned [You Were Never Lovlier, 1942]

7. The Song Is You [Instrumental]

8. All in Fun [Very Warm for May, 1939]

9. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes [Roberta, 1933]

10. Pick Yourself up [Swing Time, 1936]

11. Medley: Can I Forget You? /Yesterdays [High, Wide, And Handsome, 1937]

12. In Love in Vain [Centennial Summer, 1946]

13. The Way to Look Tonight [Sing Time, 1936]

14. Remind Me [One Night in the Tropics, 1940]

15. Day Dreaming [1941]

16. You Couldn't Be Cuter [The Joy of Living, 1938]

17. The Folks Who Live on the Hill [From High, Wide and Handsome]

18. Medley: Look for the Silver Lining /Till the Clouds ... [Sally, 1937]

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Beautiful Interpretation of Kern's Works, May 9, 2008

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Zal Uyoot "Bong2" (Surrey (BC) Canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sings the Songs of Jerome Kern - With Dick Hyman at the Piano (Audio CD)

Kern is a very conservative musicwriter and wouldn't be pleased if his work is given a very experimental treatment. For this, Ms. Stewart has abided to that dictum and the result is simply undiluted Kern melodies. Sandy's velvety voice and with Dick Hyman accompanying her on the piano, the result is simply thrilling!

All the 21 songs (6 are part of a 2-parts medley) are all familiar to anyone who knows Kern although it would be my first time to hear Day Dreaming penned by Gus Khan and Dorothy Field's How'd You Like To Spoon With Me. As always, Kern came up with beautiful melodies even to such rarely heard compositions. This is one of the best Kern Songbook - the other one would be Margaret Whiting but I would say this one is more polished. Ella Fitzgerald recorded one but it pales in comparison with her other songbooks. Elizabeth Welch did an exceptional recording under a British label. They all have their own qualities but Ms. Stewart did a remarkable compilation of Kern's greatest in an intimate setting. This is a 4.5 stars actually!

Too bad, I don't see much of her recordings to discover more.

4.0 out of 5 stars Sandy Stewart astonishing, September 9, 2008

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André Paradis (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sings the Songs of Jerome Kern - With Dick Hyman at the Piano (Audio CD)

I just saw Sandy Stewart and her gifted son, jazz pianist Bill Charlap, at the Old Mill Inn as part of the Toronto Jazz Festival. She is simply an amazing singer and can put across a lyric with grace and elegance wrapped around true emotion. And vocal control and technique to burn! A couple of numbers left the audience in awe. I can only compare her with (her friend) Carol Sloane. Enough said. The duo album with Bill Charlap is beyond belief. This earlier album of Jerome Kern favorites and some unknown songs was recorded during two sessions several years apart. It is in the top class of Kern albums. André -- Toronto