Sammy Cahn
Sammy Cahn wrote the romantic film and Broadway lyrics that became jazz standards, from Let It Snow to Come Fly with Me and I Fall in Love Too Easily. His words still give singers and pianists room to swing and linger.
An American lyricist who worked with Jule Styne, Jimmy Van Heusen and others, Cahn shaped songs that recording artists and club players keep returning to. The lines are built for the voice: clear, singable, and finished with a vaudeville punch that invites applause. Sinatra made many of them famous; on these discs they surface in intimate jazz settings, where a standard such as I Should Care or Come Fly with Me sits beside originals and other repertoire. The craft is in the phrasing and the hook, not in ornament for its own sake.
Compositions by Sammy Cahn 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.
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.
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.