A Sondheim Jazz Project

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A Sondheim Jazz Project: A Sondheim Jazz Project: City of Strangers

by David Bittinger
September 18, 2013

This CD crosses two soft borders: one between Canada and the U.S, and one between show tunes and jazz. It presents the work of the most famous Broadway songwriter of the past half century as might be heard performed at the Village Vanguard rather than the Winter Garden.Saxophonist and arranger Bobby Hsu's “A Sondheim Jazz Project" realizes Stephen Sondheim compositions as they're rarely realized. Hsu's motive: “I want to be Sondheim's advocate in the jazz world, rather than ...