Sandra King + Richard Rodney Bennett: Making Beautiful Music Together

Audiophile ACD-268

Sandra King + Richard Rodney Bennett
Making Beautiful Music Together

Sandra King treasures the memory of a day in the mid-1970s when she came to Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London to rehearse for an engagement. As she and her accompanist Pat Smythe ran through Duke Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood," King noticed a man watching her from the back. He came closer, and she found herself face to face with Stan Getz. He proceeded to tell her how much he admired her singing. "Stan was finishing a two-week booking there that night," she recalls. "He asked me if I'd like to join him on stage to sing a couple of songs. I was terrified, but I went down there and sang while he played behind me. It's an experience I'll never forget."

Personnel

Sandra King vocals, Richard Rodney Bennett piano, Greg Cohen bass.

Selections

1 Love of My Life
- (Artie Shaw - Johnny Mercer) Film: Second Chorus, 1940
2 Blame It on My Youth
- (Oscar Levant - Edward Heyman) 1934
3 Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me
- (Irving Berlin) Film: White Christmas, 1954
4 There Is No Music
- (Harry Warren - Ira Gershwin) Deleted form the film: The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949
5 Medley: A Beautiful Friendship; We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together
- (Donald Kahn - Stanley Styne) 1956; (Henry Manners - Robert Sour) 1940
6 Second Chance
- (Andre Previn - Dory Langdon) Film: Two for the SeeSaw, 1962
7 I'm Way Ahead of the Game
- (Robert Emmett Dolan - Johnny Mercer) Musical: Foxy, 1964
8 On Second Thought
- (Cy Coleman - Carol Leigh) 1961
9 I Never Know When (To Say When)
- (Leroy Anderson - Jean Kerr, Walter Kerr and Joan Ford) Musical: Goldilocks, 1958
10 I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
- (Paul Vance - Lee Pockriss) Film: Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, 1967
11 Early to Bed
- (Franklin Underwood - Richard Rodney Bennett) 1983
12 Empty Space
- (Duncan Lamont) 1996
13 Boy Wanted
- (George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin) Musical: A Dangerous Maid, 1921 with this revised lyric, London Musical: Primrose, 1924
14 If You Never Come to Me
- (previously: Useless Landscape + Inutil Paisagem) (Antonio Carlos Jobim - Ray Gilbert) 1966
15 I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before
- (Roger Kellaway - Marilyn and Alan Bergman) 1975
16 I'll Always Leave the Door a Little Open
- (Johnny Mandel - Richard Rodney Bennett) 1993

Produced by Richard Rodney Bennett
Executive Producer: George Buck
Production Coordinator: Wendell Echols
Cover Photo: William D'Amato
Year Released: 1997

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