Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett have taken their creative partnership to the next level with this album. Bennett's refined playing and distinguished compositional style fuse beautifully with the powerful and passionate vocals of Britain's First Lady of Jazz, despite the musicians having very different backgrounds. The pair have worked together a number of times over the years and each collaboration just gets better than the last.
Witchcraft is the result of the dynamic collaboration between Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett. This album contains a thoughtful selection of songs from the Cy Coleman songbook. Together, this collection weaves together the opposing talents of the sultry jazz sensation Claire Martin and the polished, savvy keyboard skills and compositional insight of Richard Rodney Bennett. Martin's strength as one of the best interpreters of the Great American Songbook shines through in this recording. The smoky elegance of her vocal sculpts itself around the smooth flowing textures of the piano accompaniment and the occasional vocal repartee of Bennett. The result of this established partnership is mesmerizing music that takes you back to a wonderful and simpler time of yesteryear.
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Multi-Channel SACD Layer
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a Super HDCD 24 Bit encoded Stereo CD layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
Musicians:
Claire Martin, vocals
Richard Rodney Bennett, piano, vocals
Selections:
1. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Rules Of the Road
4. On Second Thought
5. Ev'rybody Today Is Turning On
6. Sometime When You're Lonely
7. Let Me Down Easy
8. Nobody Does It Like Me
9. That's My Style
10. When In Rome (I Do As the Romans)
11. Witchcraft
12. With Every Breath I Take
13. On the Other Side of the Tracks
14. Would You Believe
Witchcraft is the result of the dynamic collaboration between Claire Martin and Richard Rodney Bennett. This album contains a thoughtful selection of songs from the Cy Coleman songbook. Together, this collection weaves together the opposing talents of the sultry jazz sensation Claire Martin and the polished, savvy keyboard skills and compositional insight of Richard Rodney Bennett. Martin's strength as one of the best interpreters of the Great American Songbook shines through in this recording. The smoky elegance of her vocal sculpts itself around the smooth flowing textures of the piano accompaniment and the occasional vocal repartee of Bennett. The result of this established partnership is mesmerizing music that takes you back to a wonderful and simpler time of yesteryear.
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Multi-Channel SACD Layer
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a Super HDCD 24 Bit encoded Stereo CD layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
Musicians:
Claire Martin, vocals
Richard Rodney Bennett, piano, vocals
Selections:
1. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Rules Of the Road
4. On Second Thought
5. Ev'rybody Today Is Turning On
6. Sometime When You're Lonely
7. Let Me Down Easy
8. Nobody Does It Like Me
9. That's My Style
10. When In Rome (I Do As the Romans)
11. Witchcraft
12. With Every Breath I Take
13. On the Other Side of the Tracks
14. Would You Believe
