With a Song in My Heart

Lew Soloff, Lew Soloff & Company | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 11, 1999)
• Original Release Date: March 30, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Milestone
• ASIN: B00000IIWJ
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,332 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come Rain or Come Shine

2. Andantino from Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 (2nd Movement)

3. The Way You Look Tonight

4. I'm a Fool to Want You

5. Mea Culpa

6. Deguello

7. Istanbul

8. One for Emily

9. With a Song in My Heart

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This kind of album can only result from the interplay of seasoned yet tirelessly inventive musicians who would rather lay out than revert to cliché. Trumpeter Lew Soloff, whose daunting résumé charts a trajectory from Blood, Sweat & Tears to the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, displays his interpretive prowess on classics such as the title cut, "Come Rain or Come Shine," and "The Way You Look Tonight." He is backed by a rhythm section to die for: Mulgrew Miller on piano, George Mraz on bass, and Victor Lewis on drums. Soloff's wife, Emily Mitchell, plays the harp on two cuts, one of which is a movement from a Tchaikovsky symphony. The CD consists of nine tunes, which are nicely sequenced and balanced and, not incidentally, suffused with feeling. The music commands attentive listening, and that is just what the players here are doing with each other: while Soloff sustains a note on "I'm a Fool to Want You," Miller responds with a lovely phrase that Soloff picks up in the next breath. Sparkling exchanges like this abound here; not a note is taken for granted, and that's what jazz improvisation, at its best, is all about. --Karen Bennett

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nine Great Tracks, May 27, 2007

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John Malone "[e-mail]" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: With a Song in My Heart (Audio CD)

I had the pleasure of meeting Lew Soloff a few months back at The Carlysle Hotel in New York when he was backing Steve Tyrell along with his friend Lou Marini. Lew was kind enough to invite a few of us over to a club he was playing "after hours" and I was turned on to what Lew has been doing since his years with Blood, Sweat and Tears.

I immediately ordered "With A Song In My Heart" when I returned home and immediately took to all 9 tracks. This album has more tasty arrangements; thoughtful and insightful instead of trying to blow you away.

I highly recommend the CD for those of you wanting to step up from that terrible "smooth jazz" fluff and instead - want to listen to something that is "real" jazz with a smooth touch. You won't be disappointed.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soloff -- What a Wonder!, March 11, 2000

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G. A. Goens (West Hartford, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With a Song in My Heart (Audio CD)

Lew Soloff, always a great soloist in Gil Evans' band, is a wonderful soloist. His improvisations blew my socks off on Evans' recordings, and he is no disappointment here. A great solosist who deserves more recognition. Try this CD, you'll like its intelligence, creativity, and emotion.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the years best, November 9, 1999

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bryan j. stern (Cardiff, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: With a Song in My Heart (Audio CD)

Truly beautiful CD. Order it now. Its mellow, rich,sometimes swinging somwtimes moody and lyrical. Always extraordinary playing and music. One of the best jazz CD's I listened to in a long time.