Ear Theatre Vol. 1
Ear Theater was created by legendary record producer Stewart Levine, who has produced a staggering list of artists that include Hugh Masekela, The Crusaders, B.B King Minnie Ripperton, Simply Red and Jamie Cullum to name but a few. Along with his son producer Sunny Levine, Giuseppe Patane and Eamon Ryland he has formed a multi-influenced instrumental quartet to produce a series of recordings dedicated to the melodic genius of the many composers who contributed to THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK. Beginning in the 1920’s, geniuses such as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer, in addition to others, were responsible for creating the repertoire of enduring ‘standards’ that comprise The Great American Songbook. This ‘songbook’ with its beautiful melodies and words became the repertoire for generations of vocalists such as Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Barbara Streisand, Diana Krall and Micheal Bublé, to name a few. In addition, these songs became the basis of the repertoire that allowed Jazz to develop into the art form that it has become. By utilizing the challenging harmonic structure of these songs, artists such as Louis, Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Chet Baker and countless others were able to develop their distinctive styles. Unlike the vocalists who interpreted their brilliant melodic and lyric content, and unlike the Jazz stylists who explored their harmonic brilliance, Ear Theatre has created interpretations that rely on their most basic genius, their melodies. It presents these melodies in a starkly contemporary manner, stripping them down to their most basic melodic brilliance and creating a new environment and atmosphere in which to place them. The intention is not to reinvent the wheel, just to keep it spinning.
Format: Audio CD
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