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WAREHOUSE TRACKS 1996-2006/various: The title is a little misleading if you aren’t an active part of the old timey/cowboy music community. It refers to tracks recorded live at the label’s Warehouse Theatre, not to stuff they’ve had sitting in the can for the last decade. With performances by the labels frontliners and associates, you get solid work from the Blakes, Bryan Bowers, Waddie Mitchell, Sons of the San Joaquin and much more. All are unreleased and since these concerts are generally intimate by definition, this recording is pretty intimate as well. With a house concert feel running through it, it’s a great antidote to over polished, over produced McDonald’s music, even if you aren’t into the rural kind of thing. Check it out if you are any kind of Americana fan because this is the real deal.
1276 (Western Jubilee)
JAZZ PROMO SERVICES
EDDIE DANIELS/Homecoming-Live at the Iridium: An undisputed top dog sax man, Daniels comes back to New York for a double cd recorded live showing how he tore it up in town back in the day when he was a fixture at the town’s jazz clubs. With a crack band of vets behind him, they turn it out on originals, band originals and goodies from the masters. Continuing to simply blow your mind with his playing, this is a sure bet for the straight ahead jazzbo that doesn’t quite agree with what passes for jazz these days. A set that’s sure to be a fave with all real jazzbos, this is the real stuff for ears that are crying out for it. A winner throughout.
1012 (IPO Recordings)
LIVE SUPPLEMENT
PATTI LuPONE & AUDRA McDONALD Live at Ravinia: So when did mainstream entertainment get such a bad name and who did it? No strangers to the Ravinia stage, LuPone and McDonald never met before rehearsals for this show the night before. Two generations of musical theater royalty had never worked together before yet they blended seamlessly into what seemed like a polished show that has been touring for months. Alternating between solo and duet sets, the two pros delivered a challenging show that the audience might not have realized just how a special night it was even as they came through with two thunderous standing ovations catching the performers by surprise by not preparing enough material to cover two encores. With the CSO letting their hair down for the pop nature of the event and sounding like the soundtrack for a 40’s Disney movie, the night was an adventure on many levels. Even though they did works by all the standard genre composers, they shied away from the dinner theater/warhorse compositions in favor of lesser known and forgotten works that often gave them the extra opportunity to shine. Even when going to the “familiar”, it was “Ladies Who Lunch” instead of “Send in the Clowns”, “Ohio” instead of “Some Other Time” and on like that. LuPone was the classic belter and McDonald was the understated one, even if she never met a trill or flourish she didn’t like. With a simpatico, warmth, charm and polish that just didn’t quit, these two pros made it a great night to come out for some first class entertainment under the stars, Broadway Style.
Volume 30/Number 300
August 27, 2007
MIDWEST RECORD
830 W. Route 22 #144
Lake Zurich, IL., 60047
CHRIS SPECTOR, Editor and Publisher
(c)2007 Midwest Record
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