TOO DARN HOT
Together with Cole Porter
ARTISTRY JAZZ GROUP 2010, VMCD 102
Laid back, elegante and personal, Cole Porter is celebrated by the pianist Jan Lundgren together with musicians from the Swedish jazz elite. A comprehensive booklet is included, with images and stories of Cole Porter and the 15 songs.
Timelessness is about the hardest thing to accomplish. As well as creating something new and unique out of music and worldfamous artists that already have been played, celebrated and interpreted in a numerous of ways. That does not stop the Artistry Jazz Group from undertaking Cole Porter, in a pearl gallery of songs from Porter's great treasury. Count on a virtous jazz experience thanks to renowned musicians such as the pianist Jan Lundgren, the bass player Hans Backenroth, the guitarist Jacob Fischer, the drummer Johan Löfcrantz Ramsay and the big discovery; vocalist Vivian Buczek.
The album is a sequel to last years success album We Like Previn, where the same constellation, at that time under the name of The Swedish Connection, interpreted André Previn – with excellent reviews both in Sweden and abroad. As with the previous album, Too Darn Hot comes with a ambitious and comprehensive booklet with stories about the composer, the selected songs and the musicians. Information that brings the listening and enjoyment to an extra dimension.
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Artistry Jazz Group, from the left: Johan Löfcrantz Ramsay, Hans
Backenroth, Vivian Buczek, Jacob Fischer and Jan Lundgren.
Cole Porter (1891-1964) belongs to the giants in the American music history. Born in Peru, Indiana, USA, he developed great talent playing the piano and composing at an early age. The creating of musicals already began in the 1920s, but 1930s became his great break through decade with creations such as Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Red Hot and Blue and DuBarry Was a Lady, and movies like Gay Devorcee, Rosalie and Broadway Melody of 1940. That was the time when songs like Night and Day, Just one of those things, Begin the Beguine and Easy to Love became trademarks of Porter's.
The greatest success was Kiss Me, Kate which was set up on Broadway 1948 and filmed in 1953. That same year came Silk Stockings as musical which also was filmed in 1956 with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. The story was built upon the Garbo movie Ninotchka.
A riding accident in 1937 nearly put his carrier to an end. Even if his life and seriously injoured legs could be saved, the severe pain from his wounds should torment him the rest of his life. Nevertheless, he kept up producing new music continously until 1958.
Song samples from
Too Darn Hot (2010)
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