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It's De-Lovely
Featuring the music of Robin Simone
Duration: 3:20
Though the singer's main instrumental support comes from her entire orchestra, her immediate backup group is a trio comprised of pianist Mike Greenwood, bassist Isabel Dobrev and drummer Liam Wallace.
The album was designed to make it feel like watching a favorite Broadway show. The music opens up with an "Overture" and progresses through several familiar songs from The Great American Songbook before coming to an "Intermission," then rejoining the show for the last chapter and concluding with the "Curtain Call." However, that is not the finale as that honor goes to "Swingin' on a Star with Joe (Tribute to Ella)" a raucous, playful and rambunctious way to sign off and close the curtains.
However, between the beginning and the end of the album there is a lot of sensational music to be heard, starting with "The Hollywood Medley" where Simone's sultry vocals claim the familiar "Hurray for Hollywood," the obligatory "No Business Like Show Business" and "That's Entertainment" with the big band in support playing loud and lively. The singer proceeds to belt out two incredible versions of the 1948 musical Kiss Me, Kate Cole Porter song "So in Love" as well as an emotional performance of the Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer classic "Come Rain or Come Shine" from the Broadway play St. Louis Woman. She returns with another Porter classic from the 1936 musical with a big band splash of the standard "It's De-Lovely" with propulsive statements from the band accompanying the leader on another beautiful interpretation of the classic. Songs of love changes the theme of the tunes beginning with an emotional performance on "Everything Must Change," "The Windmills of Your Mind" from French composer Michel Legrand introduced in the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair and finally a beautiful interpretation of the Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin "The Man That Got Away" first introduced in the 1954 film A Star is Born.
Robin Simone Hollywood Orchestra
By Robin Simone
Label: Picturesque Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Overture; The Hollywood Medley; So in Love; Come Rain or Come Shine; It's De-Lovely; Intermission; Everything
Must Change; The Windmills of Your Mind; The Man That Got Away; Curtain Call; Swingin' on a Star with Joe (Tribute
to Ella).
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Three-time Billboard charting singer-songwriter Robin Simone’s new incarnation is RSHO! Vocalist for Kenny Burrell's Jazz Orchestra! Robin Simone Hollywood Orchestra (LP/CD) Seventeen super musicians, a gifted conductor/arranger, and Robin all creating an electrifying take on songs of great motion pictures, and bringing new magic to the big band stage. Debut album produced by the esteemed Bill ...
Robin Simone: Robin Simone Hollywood Orchestra
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Three-time charting singer-songwriter and band leader Robin Simone fronts a seventeen-piece big band and dedicates her debut album “To those artistic dreamers, the lovers of Hollywood films and its incredible music." An industry musician who has worked on various national TV shows and who was inspired at a young age by her loving mother who sang ...
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Robin Simone
Robin Simone is a three-time Billboard charting singer-songwriter, band leader, and lead vocalist of the Robin Simone Hollywood Orchestra (RSHO). Robin’s lifelong devotion to big band music has led her to perform all over the United States and in great cities in Europe. Robin’s four-octave range has contributed to performances for Jamie Foxx, Lalo Schifrin, Burt Bacharach, Arturo Sandoval, Sofia Vergara, Taraji P. Henson, Bernie Mac, among many others.
Robin has performed on national network TV shows like The Oprah Winfrey Show and I Can See Your Voice and has collaborated with artists including Prince, Barbara Morrison and Debbie Allen. When legendary guitarist Kenny Burrell first heard Robin sing, he immediately asked her to join his Jazz orchestra—that led to spell-binding shows and confirmed for them both that Robin’s turn would come to carry the torch.
