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Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein

By Bill Charlap

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Cool; Lucky to Be Me; It

Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Cool; Lucky to Be Me; It

Bill Charlap: Somewhere: The Songs Of Leonard Bernstein

by Celeste Sunderland
October 20, 2004

This month Brooke Shields steps into the starring role of Broadway's Tony-Award winning Wonderful Town revival; 25 of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic are available on DVD; and radio listeners will have the pleasure of hearing an eleven-part documentary on the maestro's life and career, narrated by Susan Sarandon. Fourteen years ...

Bill Charlap Trio: Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein

by J. Robert Bragonier
April 2, 2004

In 2002, Bill Charlap and his trusty trio mates, Peter and Kenny Washington (no relation), released their second Blue Note CD, a centennial tribute to the music of Hoagy Carmichael, to considerable critical acclaim. Here the trio turns its attention and remarkable talents to the music of the inimitable Leonard Bernstein, with selections from West Side ...

Bill Charlap Trio: Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein

by Joshua Weiner
March 22, 2004

The son of a Broadway composer, Bill Charlap seems to have the standard jazz repertoire in his blood. His is a resolutely mainstream approach, in the vein if not always the style of Oscar Peterson, and he sounds completely at home with the music on his latest album, Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein.

Bill Charlap Trio: Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein

by Jim Santella
March 20, 2004

Capturing the wide range of expression that Leonard Bernstein put into this music, pianist Bill Charlap leads a stellar trio through various forms of emotion on Somewhere. From the album’s opening “Cool,” with its built-in, street-smart intensity, to the haphazard “Big Stuff” at a loping tempo with laid-back demeanor, the trio interprets the composer admirably.