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Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli: Friends in Music | Warner - Icon 6985302

Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappelli: Friends in Music

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Label: Warner - Icon

Cat No: 6985302

Barcode: 5099969853029

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Release Date: 7th September 2009

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Contents

Artists

Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Stephane Grappelli (violin)
Alan Clare (piano)
Max Harris (piano)
Laurie Holloway (piano)
John Etheridge (guitar)
Martin Taylor (guitar)
Ike Isaacs (guitar)
Lennie Bush (double bass)
Pierre Michelot (double bass)
Jack Sewing (double bass)
Ronnie Verrell (drums)
Alan Ganley (drums)

Artists

Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Stephane Grappelli (violin)
Alan Clare (piano)
Max Harris (piano)
Laurie Holloway (piano)
John Etheridge (guitar)
Martin Taylor (guitar)
Ike Isaacs (guitar)
Lennie Bush (double bass)
Pierre Michelot (double bass)
Jack Sewing (double bass)
Ronnie Verrell (drums)
Alan Ganley (drums)

About

This 4 CD set, containing all the recordings that the two legendary violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli made for EMI, is a further release in the EMI Classics ICON series.

The classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the jazz musician Stéphane Grappelli collaborated on six LPs of semi-improvised jazz duets of popular songs between 1973 and 1983. The albums were called: Jealousy, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, Tea for Two, Strictly for the Birds, Top Hat and For All Seasons.

Yehudi Menuhin has been acclaimed as one of the greatest and best-loved classical violinists of the 20th century, as well as an outstanding educator, humanitarian and citizen of the world. Stéphane Grappelli has long been an iconic figure in the jazz world, largely through his partnership with the gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt and their participation during the 1930s in the Quintet of the Hot Club of France.

These two very different violinists first came together to appear on a TV show in the UK on Christmas Day 1971. Despite their initial doubts about the collaboration, the partnership blossomed and the two men became close friends as well as musical colleagues.

The 4 CDs contain 86 songs, many by the great American songwriters George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, as well as jazz standards like ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’, ‘Lullaby of Birdland’ and ‘Crazy Rhythm’. There are also 13 items composed by Grappelli himself, several of which were written specially for Menuhin.

The song ‘I didn’t know what time it was’ by Richard Rodgers on CD 2, recorded in Holland in October 1977, is being released here for the first time.

The accompaniments range from solo guitar or piano, via trios and small ensembles, to full orchestras involving woodwind, strings and brass. Among the skilled jazz musicians accompanying Menuhin and Grappelli are the pianists Alan Clare, Max Harris and Laurie Holloway; guitarists John Etheridge, Martin Taylor and Ike Isaacs; bass players Lennie Bush, Pierre Michelot and Jack Sewing, and drummers Ronnie Verrell and Alan Ganley.

Arrangements are mostly by Max Harris, but those from the LP called Top Hat are by Nelson Riddle.

Contents:
CD 1
Jacob Gade
1. Jealousy

Richard Rodgers
2. The Blue Room (The Girl Friend)

George Gershwin
3. A Fine Romance (Swing Time)
4. Love is here to stay (Goldwyn Follies)

Stéphane Grappelli
5. Billy  

Jerome Kern
6. Pick yourself up (Swing Time)

Cole Porter
7. Night and Day (Gay Divorce)

Stéphane Grappelli
8. Aurore (Yehudi Menuhin violin)

Jimmy McHugh
9. I can’t believe that you’re in love with me

Jack Strachey
10. These foolish things (Spread It Abroad)

George Gershwin
11. Oh, lady, be good! (Lady, Be Good!)

Irving Berlin
12. Cheek to Cheek (Top Hat)

Richard Rodgers
13. The Lady is a Tramp (Babes in Arms)

Stéphane Grappelli
14. Errol
15. Jermyn Street

Cole Porter
16. Just one of those things (Jubilee)

George Gershwin
17. Fascinating Rhythm (Lady, Be Good!)
18. Liza (Show Girl)
19. I got rhythm (Girl Crazy)

Stéphane Grappelli
20. Johnny aime  

Cole Porter
21. I get a kick out of you (Anything Goes)

George Gershwin
22. Soon (Strike up the Band)
23. ’S Wonderful (Funny Face)

CD 2
George Gershwin
1. Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

Stéphane Grappelli
2. Menuet pour Menuhin

George Gershwin
3. Nice work if you can get it (A Damsel in Distress)
4. Embraceable you (Girl Crazy)

Cole Porter
5. Looking at you (Wake Up and Dream)

Jerome Kern
6. Why do I love you? (Show Boat)
7. All the things you are (Very Warm for May)

Joseph Meyer/Roger Wolfe Kahn
8. Crazy Rhythm (Here’s Howe)

Philip Braham
9. Limehouse Blues (André Charlot’s London Revue, 1924)

Harold Arlen
10. Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Vincent Youmans
11. Tea for Two (No, No, Nanette)

Jerome Kern
12. Yesterdays (Roberta)

Richard Rodgers
13. My Funny Valentine (Babes in Arms)
14. I didn’t know what time it was (Too Many Girls)

George Gershwin
15. A Foggy Day (in London town) (A Damsel in Distress)

Stéphane Grappelli
16. Highgate Village  
17. Adelaide Eve

Max Harris
18. Viva Vivaldi
19. Air on a shoestring

George Gershwin
20. The Man I Love (Strike Up the Band)

Richard Rodgers
21. Thou swell (A Connecticut Yankee)

Stéphane Grappelli
22. Coucou

CD 3
Manning Sherwin
1. A nightingale sang in Berkeley Square (New Faces)

George Shearing
2. Lullaby of Birdland

Harry Woods
3. When the red, red, robin comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along

Hoagy Carmichael
4. Skylark

Ray Henderson
5. Bye, bye blackbird

Ted Grouya
6. Flamingo (Big Top)

Harry Akst
7. Dinah (Kid Boots)

Earl Hines
8. Rosetta

Victor Young
9. Sweet Sue

Frank Loesser
10. Once in love with Amy (Where’s Charlie?)

David Raksin
11. Laura

Maceo Pinkard / Ben Bernie / Kenneth Casey
12. Sweet Georgia Brown

Stéphane Grappelli
13. La Route du Roi  

Irving Berlin
14. Isn’t this a lovely day (to be caught in the rain)? (Top Hat)

George Gershwin
15. He loves and she loves (Funny Face)
16. Funny Face (Funny Face)
17. They can’t take that away from me (Shall We Dance?)
18. They all laughed (Shall We Dance?)

Irving Berlin
19. Puttin’ on the Ritz (Puttin’ On the Ritz)
20. Change Partners (Carefree)
21. Top hat, white tie and tails (Top Hat)

CD 4
Irving Berlin
1. The Piccolino (Top Hat)

Jerome Kern
2. The way you look tonight (Swing Time)

Con Conrad
3. The Continental (The Gay Divorcee)

Vincent Youmans
4. The Carioca (Flying Down to Rio)

Stéphane Grappelli
5. Alison  
6. Amanda  

Max Harris
7. Winter Set

Ray Henderson
8. Button up your overcoat (Follow Through)

Frank Loesser
9. Spring will be a little late this year (Christmas Holiday)

Vernon Duke
10. April in Paris (Walk a Little Faster)
11. Autumn in New York

Jimmy McHugh
12. On the sunny side of the street (The International Revue)

Jule Styne
13. The things we did last summer

Joseph Kosma
14. Autumn Leaves

Stéphane Grappelli
15. Giboulées de mars  
16. Automne  

Irving Berlin
17. I’ve got my love to keep me warm (On the Avenue)
18. Heat Wave (As Thousands Cheer)

Gene De Paul
19. I’ll remember April (Ride ‘Em Cowboy)

Harry Warren
20. September in the rain (Melody for Two)

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