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American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center: Eric Comstock Salutes Charles Strouse
by Michael P. Gladstone
Eric Comstock, Barbara Fasano, Harry Allen and Charles Strouse This Is the Life: Salute to Charles Strouse at 80": American Songbook Series The Allen Room at Lincoln Center, New York City February 6, 2008
Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series offered an eclectic choice of artists this year: Americana rocker Joe Henry with jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, iconic rock singer/songwriter Patti Smith, veteran Memphis R&B singer Bettye Lavette, The Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile (of ...
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by Jerry D'Souza
Eric Comstock's third album finds the pianist/vocalist moving deeper into jazz territory with a stellar cast of jazz musicians. The move certainly works; while the band serves in top-notch fashion, Comstock makes it all the more relevant with his ability to phrase and enunciate these pieces the way jazz song should be treated. Stylistic touches apart, he imbues the words with yearning, joy, or pathos to bring in the right shade of emotion.
Comstock says that he loves ...
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by Michael P. Gladstone
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to see a performance of Singing Astaire: A Fred Astaire Songbook presented at NYC's Birdland during daylight hours. This revue was written by a very talented Eric Comstock, who also played piano and sang, along with two equally talented vocalists, Hilary Kole and Christopher Gines. Comstock seamlessly stitched together 29 Astaire-associated standards, some in conceptual medleys with entertaining anecdotes. Prior to that, Comstock co-wrote the long-running Off Broadway revue Our Sinatra.
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by William Grim
Wow! There are simply not enough superlatives for this CD. Eric Comstock owns" the Great American Songbook like Tony Bennett and Mel Torme, and he is one of the best of the crop of young jazz singers and song stylists to come along in recent years. Blessed with perfect intonation and incredible enunciation, Comstock does equal justice to both music and words. His piano work is elegant and his arrangements are both witty and at times erudite. Although he's a ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist/vocalist Eric Comstock opens No One Knows with the Charlie Haden/Arthur Hamilton tune Easy on the Heart," a gentle ballad featuring Frank Wess doing a slow smolder on tenor sax behind the smooth vocal flow. Comstock strikes me here as coming from the line of singers that starts with Bing Crosby and runs through Frank Sinata and Tony Bennett. He sounds cool, and he swings on the next song, To the Ends of the Earth," with Peter Bernstein taking a ...
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