Touch of Elegance

Andre Previn | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 24, 1994)
• Original Release Date: May 24, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000029FH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,110 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

An homage from one musical maestro to another, A Touch Of Elegance is an album that lives up to its title. So enamored with Andre's plans for the album, Duke Ellington gave him a song never previously recorded, Le Sucrier Velours, whilst Andre wrote the album's title track as a tribute. The overall effect is, as the original sleeve notes implied `Nobody has yet done Ellington the way Andre and his friends have done him here - warmly, admiringly, and outside yet inside the master's idiom'. Hallmark. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars PREVIN A LA SMOOTH, July 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Touch of Elegance (Audio CD)

Andre Previn has always been a unique figure in the music world. A classical conductor (The San Francisco Symphony, as an example) and an accomplished jazz pianist puts him in a rare league of players. This album is a compilation of 3 LPs recorded in the early sixties. The first 9 selections had strings and unlike the musak that this could have become, the solos of Previn are tasteful and to the point. The next 2 selections are a quintet session of Kurt Weill tunes. JJ Johnson on trombone is wonderful and stands out. Then back to the strings; but this time the strings sound more percussive and moody; almost like minature film scores that Previn feels at home with. The album ends with another purely jazz small ensemble. An album like this would have never flown today; but the taste and class of Previn and his cohorts could make it so once again.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GREAT JAZZ,... but someone help me , please!, October 17, 2002

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Nadia Trifler (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Touch of Elegance (Audio CD)

hey, everyone, if you're lookin for the finest jazz ever played, well, u couldnt have found anythin better than andre previn... i dont even need to explain y or make any arguments,... just listen to it and you'll love it!
i just want someone to tell me where in the world could i find the jazzy score andre composed for gene kelly's movie Invitation To The Dance,...??????