Michael Feinstein With The Carmel Symphony Orchestra - We Dreamed These Days (2011)
BAND/ARTIST: Michael Feinstein With The Carmel Symphony Orchestra
- Title: We Dreamed These Days
- Year Of Release: 2011
- Label: DuckHole Records [DR-3194-4]
- Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
- Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
- Total Time: 53:09
- Total Size: 288 MB(+3%)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. How Do You Keep the Music Playing (4:16)
02. Two for the Road (3:06)
03. As Long as She Needs Me (4:03)
04. With You (3:39)
05. The More I See You/There Will Never Be Another You (4:29)
06. Dream a Little Dream of Me (3:28)
07. What Kind of Fool Am I (4:43)
08. I Remember You (5:14)
09. The Hungry Years (4:11)
10. When I Fall in Love/My Foolish Heart (5:33)
11. If They Ask Me (3:27)
12. I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love (3:33)
13. We Dreamed These Days (3:27)
Singer/pianist Michael Feinstein fronts the Carmel Symphony Orchestra on We Dreamed These Days, leading the ensemble through a collection of romantic ballads that seems to have been assembled to tell an autumnal love story. He begins with composer Michel Legrand and lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman's examination of mature commitment, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing," which suggests the theme. This is not young love or love discovered, it is love examined in midstream. The orchestra's arrangements and Feinstein's vocal delivery both suggest that things are going downhill in this relationship, even as, for instance, he proclaims that "As Long as She Needs Me," he'll stick it out. (Appropriately, the song is a repurposed version of Lionel Bart's "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver!, sung in the show by Nancy of Bill, who later will kill her.) A turning point seems to come in the medley of "The More I See You" with "There Will Never Be Another You," as Feinstein moves from proclaiming devotion to affectionate reminiscence of a love that is over. Thereafter, he effectively mixes old standards like "I Remember You" with more recent soft rock ballads like Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield's "The Hungry Years" and Peter Allen's "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love." That song is the real album closer, or should have been. Feinstein tacks on a composition of his own, the title song, which ends things on an oddly anthemic note. "We Dreamed These Days" the song, with its heroic arrangement and lyrical references to freedom and liberty, sounds like it was written to be a new national anthem, and doesn't fit with what has come before.~William Ruhlmann
01. How Do You Keep the Music Playing (4:16)
02. Two for the Road (3:06)
03. As Long as She Needs Me (4:03)
04. With You (3:39)
05. The More I See You/There Will Never Be Another You (4:29)
06. Dream a Little Dream of Me (3:28)
07. What Kind of Fool Am I (4:43)
08. I Remember You (5:14)
09. The Hungry Years (4:11)
10. When I Fall in Love/My Foolish Heart (5:33)
11. If They Ask Me (3:27)
12. I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love (3:33)
13. We Dreamed These Days (3:27)
Singer/pianist Michael Feinstein fronts the Carmel Symphony Orchestra on We Dreamed These Days, leading the ensemble through a collection of romantic ballads that seems to have been assembled to tell an autumnal love story. He begins with composer Michel Legrand and lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman's examination of mature commitment, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing," which suggests the theme. This is not young love or love discovered, it is love examined in midstream. The orchestra's arrangements and Feinstein's vocal delivery both suggest that things are going downhill in this relationship, even as, for instance, he proclaims that "As Long as She Needs Me," he'll stick it out. (Appropriately, the song is a repurposed version of Lionel Bart's "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver!, sung in the show by Nancy of Bill, who later will kill her.) A turning point seems to come in the medley of "The More I See You" with "There Will Never Be Another You," as Feinstein moves from proclaiming devotion to affectionate reminiscence of a love that is over. Thereafter, he effectively mixes old standards like "I Remember You" with more recent soft rock ballads like Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield's "The Hungry Years" and Peter Allen's "I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love." That song is the real album closer, or should have been. Feinstein tacks on a composition of his own, the title song, which ends things on an oddly anthemic note. "We Dreamed These Days" the song, with its heroic arrangement and lyrical references to freedom and liberty, sounds like it was written to be a new national anthem, and doesn't fit with what has come before.~William Ruhlmann
Jazz | Vocal Jazz | FLAC / APE | CD-Rip
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