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Product Description:
What more can be said of this 80-year-old phenomenon? This is Barbara Cook's 14th album for DRG and she is singing better than ever, with a brand new set of songs!
Ms Cook is now with a brilliant new musical director/arranger, Lee Musiker, along with Pete Johnson on bass, Jim Saporito on percussion/drums and Lawrence Feldman on woodwinds.
Tracks:
1. There's A Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder
2. Where Or When
3. Old Devil Moon
4. He Loves And She Loves
5. Lucky To Be Me
6. If I Ever Say I'm Over You
7. Sooner Or Later
8. I'm Through With Love / Smile
9. Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You
10. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter / I Wish I Could Forget You
11. Harbour
12. Cookin Breakfast For The One I Love
13. Lost In The Stars / No More
14. Hallelujah, I Love Him So
15. For All We Know
In his review of this CD in The Age, Melbourne, on 8 January 2009, Jim Murphy gave it the highest rating - Five Stars - and said:
Listen to this latest Barbara Cook album and marvel. Recorded in New York last August, it was made when the lady was approaching her 81st birthday. It is simply an amazing recording, not only for the incomparable technique that enables a singer of that age to still deliver with no compromise on quality, but for its zest, which would to credit to anyone 30 years her junior. The doyenne of Broadway divas, whose silvery coloratura claimed music theatre immortality in Bernstein's Candide in 1956, has a wide taste in music. Alongside such quality theatre fare as Where or When? (Rodgers and Hart's lovely, plaintive song about deja vu), Old Devil Moon and Lucky to be Me she gives impressive readings of Ray Charles' Hallelujah, I Love (Him) So and Peter Allen's Harbour, as well as oldies There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder, For All We Know, Love Is Good for Anything that Ails You and an irrepressible honky-tonk arrangement of Sooner or Later, from Disney's Song of the South. Artful medleys, such as combining Weill's Lost in the Stars with Sondheim's No More, are a credit to new collaborator Lee Musiker. "This is our first album together," says the octogenarian. "I can promise you there will be more." Who would doubt her?
Also available by Barbara Cook:
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Barbara Cook - Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder