Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Hart's lyrics for Rodgers and Hart still sit at the heart of the jazz and cabaret songbook: witty, conversational, and edged with a rueful tenderness that singers and players keep returning to.
Across more than two decades with Richard Rodgers he wrote the words for Broadway scores whose numbers slipped free of the stage and into standard repertoire. My Funny Valentine, Blue Moon, The Lady Is a Tramp, Manhattan, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, My Romance: a map of how American popular song learned to sound both smart and wounded. Hart favoured internal and polysyllabic rhyme not as a party trick but as wit in the service of feeling. The lines feel almost spoken, yet they land with a precision that rewards every fresh reading. Jazz musicians reach for them because the emotion sits just under the wordplay, ready to open in a ballad or swing with a grin. He wrote as a showman and a playwright: songs meant to be acted, intimate enough to live long outside the theatre.
Compositions by Lorenz Hart appear on
Tony Gould on the Art of Creative Music
This is a tribute to revered Australian pianist, praised educator and musical thinker Dr Tony Gould, Australia’s first professor of jazz. It comprises an audio CD and bonus one-hour video DVD documentary.
TNT: 2 Pinots 2 Pales and 2 Hours
Two pinots, two pales and two hours later, with little discussion and no rehearsal, five spontaneous improvisations and three standards were captured with the ease that only comes when three dedicated jazz musicians meet solely to make music.
Home
Pianist Tony Gould and singer Emma Gilmartin offer intimate voice-and-piano readings of cherished songs, including three Gould originals, centred on home, family and childhood memory.
Tomorrow, just you wait and see
Pianist Tony Gould and vocalist Emma Gilmartin share a programme of standards and originals, shaped as first-take, spontaneously conceived duets. Favourites sit beside less familiar songs, all chosen for melodic beauty and meaning.
Little Wing: Standards Inspired by Angels
Tried-and-true jazz standards fashioned around the theme of angels. Vocalist Debra Blaquiere is joined by award-winning pianist Joe Chindamo and bassist Philip Rex.
From Within
Move's ARIA-nominated jazz duo returns to the studio for a long-awaited second album. The repertoire ranges further than before, lifting the energy of the spirited pieces and deepening the expression of the gentler ones.
River Story
Jazz pianist Tony Gould joins Australian guitarist and composer Peter Petrucci for a programme of originals and standards, shaped by spontaneous duo interplay rather than fixed arrangements.
Just For The Record
Renowned jazz singer Linda Cable gathers moody ballads and up-tempo standards in a polished set that moves from cool and slinky to full swing.
Wildflowers
Composed in 1984, Wildflowers blends sounds of the Australian bush with free jazz. Across nine tracks the music is liberated from any obligation to fashion or idiom.