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    Andre Previn - Alone: Ballads For Solo Piano (2007)

    Posted By: Designol
    Andre Previn - Alone: Ballads For Solo Piano (2007)

    André Previn - Alone: Ballads For Solo Piano (2007)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 159 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 111 Mb | Scans included
    Piano Jazz, Standards | Label: EmArcy/Decca/Universal | # B0009092-02 | Time: 00:45:44

    From the start of his intermittent side career as a jazz pianist, esteemed conductor and composer Andre Previn has shown more feeling for the form than most classical artists who cross over. Going beyond a recreational involvement in improvised music, he has deepened his playing since skimming stylistic surfaces on his bestselling My Fair Lady album of nearly 50 years ago. Now 78, he gives us what may be his most satisfying jazz recording in Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano. The solo format allows him to reflect his debt to piano masters including Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, and Bud Powell in ways his work with trios and combos hasn't, while showing off his super-refined lyrical touch with its sophisticated sense of color. With its scampering stride touches, "What is This Thing Called Love" is the most upbeat of ballads, while "I Can't Get Started" is given a more gentle awakening. With the exception of "Darkest Before the Dawn," an obscure tune Previn wrote with Johnny Mercer for the British musical The Good Companions, the album touches familiar bases: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rogers & Hart, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Hoagy Carmichael. But invested with personal meaning, this is no typical standards survey. It lives up to the challenge of making your hear these songs in a new light.

    Review by Lloyd Sachs

    Consider Sir André’s description of the session (yes, he was knighted in ’96): “I just came in and did them. … I never did a take two on anything.” Such are the extemporizing talents of the “Maestro,” thoroughly bilingual in the worlds of jazz and classical. In the latter idiom, conductors and soloists are encouraged not to deviate from the written score; in the world of jazz … well if you’re reading this you understand the rules, or thereof. Previn can navigate both schools with total confidence.

    This collection of standards plus three originals reveals his prodigious technique along with other trademarks. Most notable is his ability to change keys in the most unexpected places. Take “Skylark,” where, in less than 2:40, Previn takes his listeners through six key changes, and at the very end displays his penchant for meter manipulation—still 4/4, or has it morphed into 3/4? On “It Might as Well Be Spring,” Previn reveals even more modulations, plus his gift for serious re-harmonization. He lets his right hand bend tones as much as physically possible on “Angel Eyes,” as he gets pleasantly down and dirty. For “My Ship,” Previn immediately conjures up Richard Strauss, with bi-tonal suggestions of the rose motif from his opera Der Rosenkavalier. Previn’s love of melody is shown on “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.”

    Amid his balladic meanderings, it’s reassuring to hear Previn abandon the rubato long enough for two references to his jazz roots: a new blues head he fashioned for the date, “André’s Blues”; and two choruses at supersonic speed of “What is This Thing Called Love” that reveal his bop chops.

    Review by Harvey Siders, JazzTimes.com

    Don't hate him because he's popular…or because of his sundry talents. Andre Previn may be best known as a conductor of symphony orchestras and as a film soundtrack composer, but he's a well-established jazz pianist as well. Previn's style is melodious and easygoing (influenced by piano masters Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson), but he can swing up a storm when he wants to. On ALONE, however, the mood is decidedly relaxed and touched with nostalgia as Previn embraces a set of emotionally charged standards. Songs like "Angel Eyes" and "I Can't Get Started" are timelessly poetic, while the sly "Andre's Blues" displays Previn's lighthearted side.

    Allmusic.com

    Andre Previn - Alone: Ballads For Solo Piano (2007)



    Tracklist:

    01. Angel Eyes (3:42)
    02. Second Time Around (3:20)
    03. André's Blues (2:21)
    04. Darkest Before The Dawn (2:06)
    05. What Is This Thing Called Love (2:14)
    06. Night And Day (3:54)
    07. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (4:26)
    08. I Can't Get Started (4:04)
    09. My Ship (2:54)
    10. Skylark (2:44)
    11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was/Ship Without A Sail (5:46)
    12. It Might As Well Be Spring (4:23)
    13. You're Gonna Hear From Me (3:50)


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