Arnold Olenick

Arnold Olenick: Songs from My Trunk-Standards for the Millenium

by Dave Nathan
June 1, 2001

A bane of today's singer is finding fresh material. Regardless of how their music is, they don't want the choices for their program to include the just songs from the Gershwin Brothers, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen and the other authors of the Great American Popular Song Book. Some pen their own material, others turn to contemporary material (e.g., songs by Sting) and try to give them a jazz feel which is hard since much of it is ...