Live at the Cafe Carlyle [Live]

1. Pent-Up House

2. Shadow of Your Smile

3. Teach Me Tonight

4. Cheryl

5. Blues for Breakfast

6. P.S. I Love You

7. I Cover the Waterfront

8. Tell Me a Bedtime Story

9. Inside

10. Stratford Stomp

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Tracks:

Medley: We Love You Conrad (Gower)/Before The Parade Passes By/It Only Takes A Moment
I Got The Sun In The Morning
The Happy Time/Among My Yesterdays
The World Must Be Bigger Than An Avenue
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
About A Quarter To Nine
Her (His) Face
Look What Happened To Mabel
They Say It's Wonderful
I Got Lost In His Arms/Time Heals Everything
Before The Parade Passes By (Reprise)
They Were You

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Barbara Cook is the epitome of the cabaret diva. A star on Broadway from the '50s through to the '70s (she still owns the role of Marian the Librarian in The Music Man), Cook continues to sing the tunes of the Great White Way--her venues are just a tad more intimate these days. This live performance at the Café Carlyle in New York should more than please her legion of fans. Cook's tribute to Gower Champion is filled with great music and fond memories of the Broadway director and choreographer. From "Before the Parade Passes By" from Hello, Dolly!, Cook's lovely soprano voice segues into tunes from Annie Get Your Gun ("I Got the Sun in the Morning," "I Got Lost in His Arms"), Carnival ("Her Face"), The Fantasticks ("They Were You"), and more. With perfect piano arrangements by Wally Harper (who accompanied Cook on her prior album, All I Ask of You), this is a delightful disc. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

Great Singer & Great Collaborators.......2004-02-17

Barbara Cook is sensational and everyone seems to agree. The songs are well known which usually is a negative for me, but anything sung by Ms. Cook seems fresh (So nice to hear "They Were You" sung straight and so beautifully). But the best aspect of the recording for me is to hear Ms. Cook and Mr. Harper in their "natural habitat", they seem so relaxed and the crowd (if the Carlyle can be said to hold a "crowd") reaction is great. I've been lucky enough to see Ms. Cook and Mr. Harper many times at the Carlyle. My favorite rememberance was during a rare flub of a verse by Ms. Cook which elicited a loud, short "HA!" from Wally. The smile and look from Ms. Cook to her long-time accompianist was worth the price of admission. This CD captures for me that kind of comfort and relaxed elegance and excellence that make this duo so pleasurable.

Barbara Returns to Broadway (No, The Other Barbara!).......2000-06-25

Another CD of Barbara Cook's that we can rave over! However, this one is different in many repects. On "The Champion Season..." we get a rare glimpse of Barbara's joy in celebrating Broadway musicals that can only be captured on a live recording. Her other live CD's are gorgeously sung but this one is exhuberant and full of fun and whimsy. Here Barbara lets her voice soar in music she clearly adores. She engages all our emotions in this heartfelt and fitting tribute to a very talented man-Gower Champion. A particular favorite track of mine is (#10), I Got Lost in His Arms/Time Heals Everything). This CD is the next best thing to seeing Barbara live! A precious gem of a recording!

THE CHAMPION SEASON: LIVE AT THE CAFE CARLYLE.......1999-11-24

THIS BRILLIANT , SHINING STAR NAMED BARBARA COOK DOES IT AGAIN ! HOW LUCKY US MERE MORTALS ARE TO HAVE HER RADIANCE HERE WITH US ON THIS PLANET !

Sheýs only wonderful.......1999-11-19

Barbara Cook is one of the marvels of our present world - her voice, feeling, rhythm, intonation, everything is perfect. On this live disc, which captures some of her between song talking, we also get to hear her delightful reminiscences of Gower Champion. Her talking voice and what she has to say are as beautiful and expressive as her singing, so that on repeated listening, one never tires of the talking. The songs are a mix of well known and not so well known, all sung beautifully with the always perfect accompaniment of Wally Harper. Theirs is truly a musical match made in heaven. While all the songs are lovely, I have to single out "They Were You", a gorgeous song which has never been sung more beautifully. Miss Cook never ceases to be a revelation. If you ever have a chance to see her and Wally Harper at the Carlyle, drop everything else you had planned and go to see them. You won't ever forget it.

WOW, WOW, still the best.......1999-10-15

I anxiously await each new album by Barbara Cook. An this is no dissapointment. Her voice seems to get better each year! Run or "click", don't walk to buy this album. It is absolutly wonderful. Filled with conversation about Gower Champion, you hope that the album would go on and on. what a gorgeus voice.

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Live at the Café Carlyle
Bobby Short
Manufacturer: Collectables
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Binding: Audio CD

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Real Live Girl [From Little Me]
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Jazz elegance

Live at the Cafe Carlyle
George Shearing with Don Thompson
Manufacturer: Concord Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000006EZ
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Pent Up House
The Shadow Of Your Smile
Teach Me Tonight
Cheryl
Blues For Breakfast
P.S. I Love You
I Cover The Waterfront
Tell Me A Bedtime Story
Inside
Stratford Stomp

Customer Reviews:

Jazz elegance.......2006-05-24

George Shearing has always impressed me as one of the most lyrical and elegant piano players around, and this CD, recorded live at the swank NYC supper club, captures those aspects of his playing beautifully. Whether playing bebop-associated tunes such as Sonny Rollins's PENT-UP HOUSE or Bird's CHERYL or intimate theatre tunes such as INSIDE by Marvin Fisher, Shearing's ordered, poetic touches are ever present. Don Thompson is a similar-styled bassist, and they play especially well together on tunes where they exchange ideas in traded passages: on the already mentioned PENT-UP HOUSE and CHERYL, for example. On TELL ME A BEDTIME STORY and STRATFORD STOMP both men play piano, and they weave in and around each other beautifully and effectively. I COVER THE WATERFRONT is a Shearing solo track, and it's the most impressionistic and dreamy piece on the CD. I'm not sure this one is in print anymore, but if you are a fan of the Shearing touch, it would be worth your while picking up on this CD if you should see it somewhere.

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An Evening With Bobby Short At The Carlyle
Contains the definitive version of "Send in the Clowns"

Live at the Café Carlyle
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Real Live Girl [From Little Me]
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Mister and Missus Fitch [From the Gay Divorcee]
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All of You [From Silk Stockings]
Let's Misbehave [From Paris]
Sorry-Grateful [From Company]
I Get a Kick Out of You [From Anything Goes]
New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
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When a Woman Loves a Man
Ill Wind [From Cotton Club Parade of 1934]
Miss Otis Regrets
It's Not You [From Stand Up and Sing]
I Happen to Like New York [From The New Yorkers]
One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) [From The Sky's the Limit]
As Time Goes By [From Casablanca]
I've Got the World on a String [From Cotton Club Parade of 1934]
Medley: If I Had a Talking Picture of You/I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All/
For All We Know
I Like the Likes of You [From Ziegfield Follies of 1934]

Customer Reviews:

An Evening With Bobby Short At The Carlyle.......2005-09-17

To many people Bobby Short exemplified sophistication and wit. To see him live at the Cafe Carlyle was to take a trip down memory lane. A time when people dressed up when they went out. Men wore suits and tuxedos, women wore evening gowns. You also had the pleasure of hearing some of the greatest songs ever written from the likes of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Rogers & Hart, Noel Coward and Harold Arlen. Where else could one go and see an entertainer, of the stature of Short, and hear such songs?

I had the honor, and I do consider it an honor, of seeing Bobby Short at the Cafe Carlyle. In fact I saw him twice. No record can really capture the feeling of being in the room, I've been slightly disappointed with some of his "live" albums, but "Bobby Short Live at the Cafe Carlyle" does have some bright moments, and at time we can sense the joy that filled the room.

One of the reasons I haven't enjoyed Short's "live" albums is if you notice he usually sings too many slow songs. When you do that you run the risk of boring an audience. You have to mix things up a bit and throw in some up-tempo tunes. Listen to Short's "Late Night At The Cafe Carlyle" album, every song, with the exception of two, are slow. So far the best "live" album I've heard is called "Songs of New York".

Short does start things off with a bright up-scale tune called "Real Live Girl" written by Cy Coleman, who also recently passed away. Short then follows that up with "Miss Brown To You", a song I personally associate Billie Holiday with. It too is up-scale.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting Bobby Short did not how to sing a slow song, he did. I especially like a Stephen Sondheim tune called "Losing My Mind", which I'd never heard before.

The program can be summed up by naming three composers; Cole Porter, Sondheim and Harold Arlen. Porter tunes consist of "Mister and Missus Fitch", a funny little tune, "All of You" Short sings some lyrics I never heard before, "Let's Misbehave" I like the song but didn't care for Short's arrangement but did like "I Get A Kick Out Of You", "Miss Otis Regrets" and finally "I Happen To Like New York". The Sondheim tunes are as mentioned "Mind" plus "Sorry-Grateful" and "Send in the Clowns". I was a bit surprised to hear Short sing Sondheim, I didn't think he had the right voice of those tunes but he handles them pretty well. And Arlen tunes include "Ill Wind", "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)" and "I've Got The World On A String".

Bobby Short fans should enjoy the album, though it seems to no longer be available on CD. I bought a copy of the LP. If you really want to hear this album you may have to do the same. New York's nightlife will never quite be the same now that the master is gone.

Bottom-line: Pretty good "live album" that doesn't quite capture the feeling of seeing Short live but it does have some bright moments. Interesting song selection makes the album worthwhile for Short fans.

Contains the definitive version of "Send in the Clowns".......1999-02-26

This album was recorded when Bobby Short was at the height of his talent. It contains what I consider to be the finest interpretation of Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns" It's simply the best album in my collection. Listening to Mr. Short changed my taste in music forever and for the better.

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