Frank Loesser
Frank Loesser wrote the music and lyrics that still light up stages and standards books: sharp, singable Broadway scores and film songs whose wit and warmth keep turning up in jazz rooms and recital programmes alike.
Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying made his name on Broadway, the first with its Runyon street-smart swagger and the second with corporate satire set to a score that won him a share of the Pulitzer Prize. He could turn a party duet into an Oscar winner with Baby, It's Cold Outside, send Danny Kaye wandering through Hans Christian Andersen with Inchworm and Wonderful Copenhagen, and drop a love song like I've Never Been in Love Before that jazz players still reach for. Over seven hundred songs, many built for the ear first: clever rhyme, clean melody, and theatrical craft that makes a standard feel inevitable.
Compositions by Frank Loesser appear on
Songe
Emma Gilmartin’s follow-up to her collaboration with Tony Gould, Tomorrow, just you wait and see, is a poised jazz vocal set: standards, two of her own songs, and a clear, understated delivery.
The Tony Gould Quartet: Live in Concert
Captured live in concert, this album of well-known and much-loved jazz pieces features the acclaimed pianist Tony Gould and Graeme Lyall, one of Australia’s greatest saxophonists.
Unanimity
Two grand pianos, one disc: Bob Sedergreen and Tony Gould, leading Australian jazz improvisers, in a rare live duo of spontaneous piano performance.
Dream Song
A charming collection of well-known songs, sure to delight. Immortal sacred favourites sit beside theatre and film themes, from Franck’s Panis Angelicus and Lloyd Webber’s Pie Jesu to Blake, Rodgers and Bart.