George Shearing, Peggy Lee - Beauty and the Beat!
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Artist: George Shearing, Peggy LeeBrand: Lee
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Do I Love You?
- I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City
- If Dreams Come True
- All Too Soon
- Mambo in Miami - George Shearing
- Isn't It Romantic? - George Shearing
- Blue Prelude
- You Came a Long Way From St. Louis
- Always True to You in My Fashion
- There'll Be Another Spring
- Get Out of Town
- Satin Doll - George Shearing
- Nobody's Heart [*]
- Don't Ever Leave Me [*]
Music reviews of Beauty and the Beat!
Music Review: An Artist Who Needed No Sleight of Hand
Rating: 5 Stars
Note that the front-cover caption of this 2003 reissue promises a restoration of the "studio session" recording. Unlike the "Ellington at Newport '56" LP that was essentially a studio reconstruction of the live event until receiving a superb digital remastering, it appears that no authentic recording of the Lee-Shearing concert exists. A pity, because Peggy was such an insistent perfectionist that it would be especially gratifying to hear her performing "without a net." The remastered studio recordings sound better than ever and some of the "phoniness" of the earlier release has been reduced or eliminated, but it's still distracting to have three instrumentals arbitrarily inserted at various points during the "concert" (at the live event, Shearing would have opened with a set before bringing on the featured singing attraction). Moreover, the Shearing pieces are reflective of the perfunctory "mood music" with which he was associated through much of the '50s. They're time-extenders rather than top-shelf Shearing.
All the same, Peggy has become neglected to such an alarming degree that these recordings of first-rate material (the inclusion of Lorenz Hart's "Nobody's Heart" is a happy inspiration) can be warmly recommended. Even if you have an earlier edition, it's nice to hear her sounding as though she weren't singing in an airport hanger, especially during a time (1950-1970) when her voice retained all of its compelling breathy vibrancy.
In the meantime, we can only hope that Capitol discovers in its vaults the original concert tape. And there's at least one complete on-location recording: "At Basin Street East" (but make sure you pick up the 2002 edition--with a cover of Peggy's face in B&W profile--rather than the earlier reconstructed edition, which still rings up better sales (possibly because it's cheaper and bears the same cover as the LP).
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