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Mandy Patinkin
Opening
Pretty Women
Live, Laugh, Love
Everybody Says Don t
Our Time
Uptown, Downtown
Free Pleasant Little Kingdom/Too Many Mornings
Not While I m Around
All Things Bright and Beautiful
It Takes Two
Sunday
Recorded live at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, this double CD is one heck of an extensive tribute to Stephen Sondheim. Backed only by Paul Ford on piano, Mandy Patinkin gets through nearly three dozen songs pen.
more »ned by the Broadway master. Some are obvious (excerpts from Sunday in the Park with George, in which the singer created the title role), others less so ( If You Can Find Me I m Here from Evening Primrose). Patinkin is often mocked for his shivering falsetto, but here, it s actually when his voice explores a lower register that it falters. What s more interesting is when he tackles songs usually sung by women, such as Follies Broadway Baby and Company s Another Hundred People and You Could Drive a Person Cr
Janis Siegel
Just A Little Lovin
Go Away Little Boy
The Late Late Show
(I m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
Where Are You?
I Wish You Love
The Big Hurt
Vocalist Janis Siegel is a member of the world-famous Manhattan Transfer, but she has also released several satisfying records as a solo artist. This CD features Siegel paying tribute to the New York hit-making institution.
more » of the 50s and 60s known as the Brill Building, and to female singers. A topflight band accompanies Siegel, including pianist Cedar Walton, tenor saxophonist-flutist David Fathead Newman, and trumpeter Tom Harrell. The singer and her soulfully syncopated crew work their magic by recasting tunes such as the Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil gem, Just a Little Lovin , and Toni Fisher s The Big Hurt. Siegel s sophisticated and sensitive vocals also give justice to Dakota Staton s The Late, Late Show, Etta Jones s Don t Go to Strangers, and Nancy Wilson s (I m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over.