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Ann Hampton Callaway: Signature, N-Coded Music 4227
Christine Andreas: Here's to the Ladies, PS Classics 208
Jessica Molaskey: Pentimento, PS Classics 205
Michael Feinstein With the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Concord Jazz 4987
Bernadette Peter Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, Angel, 34969
Keith Lockhart, Boston Pops Orchestra: My Favorite Things, RCA Victor 63835
Barbara Carroll: One Morning in May, Fynsworth Alley 0621432
Original Cast Recording: The Last 5 Years, Sh-K-Boom 4001
CDs by well-known Broadway and cabaret performers have recently come on the market that pay tribute to singers, composers, and even genres of song from earlier eras. Several were in celebration of the Richard Rodgers centennial.
Two of better CDs are tributes to great singers of the past both onstage and off. Ann Hampton Callaway pays homage to jazz singers of the 40s and 50s in Signature. She covers the classic renditions of Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald and others. Anne doesn't imitate so much as sing in their inimitable styles. In Tenderly, for example, she captures Sarah Vaughan's sultry tones, while in "Is That All There Is?," she recreates Peggy Lee's disillusionment. Her female characterizations, however, come off better than the male. (Who...
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