Bobby Short - You're The Top: The Love Songs Of Cole Porter CD Album

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Bobby Short - You're The Top: The Love Songs Of Cole Porter CD


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Bobby Short is to Cole Porter as Joao Gilberto will always be to Jobim, the man most capable of presenting the composer's work in a milieu concordant with the one in which it was created. Both men hail from Indiana, but both journeyed to New York City to pursue the sophisticate's life through music. Despite the misleading cover text, this album was not recorded at Manhattan's famed Cafe Carlyle, where pianist/singer Short and his trio have reigned supreme for decades, singing Porter and more in a virtual one-man crusade to keep the tradition alive.

Instead of his usual trio, Short is accompanied by the subtly swinging big band of Loren Schoenberg, which adds just the right mix of pageantry and sensuality to Short's performances. As ever, Short's voice is the perfect combination of studied decadence, high-society pomp-and-circumstance, and gracefully jazzy emotional commitment. The pure, high tones that peek through the rough, sandpapery edges of his unique voice are the pearl in the oyster on this albu, which proves that elegance and sophistication are never out of date.

He Covers 15 Cole Porter Songs With 16 Piece Big Band

Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios from October 13-16, 1998; Avatar Studios on November 9 & 29, 1998; and Sound On Sound, New York, New York on January 22 & 25, 1999. Includes liner notes by Robert Kimball.

YOU'RE THE TOP: LOVE SONGS OF COLE PORTER was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance.

Personnel: Bobby Short (vocals, piano); Howard Alden, Jay Berliner (guitar); Jack Stuckey, Jay Brandford (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone); Danny Bank (flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone); Doug Lawrence (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Loren Schoenberg (tenor saxophone); John Eckert, Tony Kadleck, Virgil Jones (trumpet); Eddie Bert, Bobby Pring (trombone); Klaus Suonsaari (drums).

Audio Mixers: Mark Robertson-Tessi; Robert Friedrich.

Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, NY (10/13/1998-01/25/1999); Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY (10/13/1998-01/25/1999); Sound on Sound, New York, NY (10/13/1998-01/25/1999).

Photographer: Steve Melnick.

Personnel: Bobby Short (vocals, piano); Jay Berliner, Howard Alden (guitar); Jack Stuckey, Jay Brandford (flute, clarinet, alto saxophone); Danny Bank (flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone); Doug Lawrence (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Loren Schoenberg (tenor saxophone); John Eckert (trumpet, flugelhorn); Tony Kadleck, Virgil Jones (trumpet); Bobby Pring, Eddie Bert (trombone); Frank Tate (bass); Klaus Suonsaari (drums).

Engineers: Jack Renner, Robert Friedrich, Mark Partis.

You're The Top: The Love Songs Of Cole Porter Music

List Price	$18.98 (You save $2.39)
Category	Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, Vocal, Jazz Vocals, Cabaret, Enhanced CD
Label	Telarc Distribution
Orig Year	1999
All Time Product Rank	246,797
CD Universe Part number	1130096
Catalog number	83463
Discs	1
Release Date	Jun 22, 1999
Studio/Live	Studio
Mono/Stereo	Stereo
Producer	John Snyder
Recording Time	55 minutes
Personnel	Tony Kadleck Danny Bank - flute, bass clarinet, baritone saxophone John Eckert - trumpet, flugelhorn Bobby Short - vocals, piano Virgil Jones - trumpet Bobby Pring - trombone Frank Tate - bass Jack Stuckey Loren Schoenberg - tenor saxophone Also: Jay Berliner, Eddie Bert, Howard Alden, Jay Brandford, Doug Lawrence, Klaus Suonsaari

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