Kristin Chenoweth - Let Yourself Go

Artist:

Chenoweth, Kristin

UPC:

696998938427

Description:

Personnel includes: Kristin Chenoweth, Jason Alexander (vocals); Jay Berliner (guitar); Andy Stein, Suzanne Ornstein, Belinda Whitney-Barratt (violin); Jill Jaffee (viola); Clay Ruede (cello); Red Press, Albert Regni (clarinet); Lawrence Feldman (bass clarinet); Jack Gale (trombone); Rob Fisher, Lee Musiker (piano); John Beal (bass); Arnold Kinsella (drums).
Recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York, New York in June 2000.
Personnel: Kristin Chenoweth (vocals); Jason Alexander (vocals); Jay Berliner (guitar); Belinda Whitney-Barratt, Andy Stein, Suzanne Ornstein (violin); Jill Jaffe (viola); Clay Ruede (cello); Albert Regni, Seymour Red Press (clarinet); Lawrence Feldman (bass clarinet); Jack Gale (trombone); Lee Musiker (piano); Arnold Kinsella, Jr. (drums).
Audio Mixer: Jeffrey Lesser .
Recording information: Clinton Recording Studios, New York, NY (06/2000); Extasy Studio, Los Angeles, CA (06/2000); RPM Studio, New York, NY (06/2000).
Photographer: Kwaku Alston.
Kristin Chenoweth capped a rising career in musical theater with her debut solo album, which found her showing off her well-trained soprano in a collection of show tunes, most of which dated to the interwar period. On Irving Berlin`s "Let Yourself Go," she tap danced like Fred Astaire in Follow the Fleet, and she worked up a torrent of comic anger in Jule Styne`s "If You Hadn`t But You Did." Then, she switched gears, proving herself a potently romantic figure in the Gershwins` "How Long Has This Been Going On?" and Rodgers and Hart`s "My Funny Valentine." And so it went. Backed by the Coffee Club Orchestra, the resident backup band for City Center`s Encores! series of concert versions of lost musicals, with whom she had worked on Strike Up the Band and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, she recreated one of the Strike Up the Band numbers, the lesser-known Gershwin treat "Hangin` Around With You," abetted by another musical theater veteran who had branched out into TV, Jason Alexander. Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlan`s previously unheard "The Girl in 14G" allowed her to show off her opera training as well as her scatting abilities, and she fearlessly (and successfully) took on the ghost of Mary Martin by covering "I`m a Stranger Here Myself" from One Touch of Venus. Like an elaborate audition tape, the album seemed designed to suggest that Chenoweth could play any sort of part; sometimes the songs themselves reflected this goal of displaying versatility, notably the obscure Vincent Youmans song "Should I Be Sweet?," in which the singer must bounce back and forth between "sweet" and "hot" personas as she tries to choose between them. But whatever role she undertook, Chenoweth revealed more than enough talent to excel on a dazzling first album. ~ William Ruhlmann

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Let Yourself Go, song (from "Follow the Fleet")
2. Two on the Aisle, musical revue: If You Hadn`t But You Did
3. How Long Has This Been Going On?, song (from Rosalie, musical)
4. My Funny Valentine, song (from "Babes in Arms")
5. Strike Up the Band, musical (second version): Hangin` Around with You
6. Girl in 14G, The
7. I`ll Tell the Man in the Street, song (from "I Married an Angel")
8. I`m a Stranger Here Myself, song for voice & piano (from "One Touch of Venus")
9. Nobody Else but Me, song (from "Show Boat")
10. Nobody`s Heart, song (from "By Jupiter")
11. Why Can`t I?, song (from "Spring Is Here")
12. Take a Chance, musical play: Should I Be Sweet?
13. Just an Ordinary Guy
14. Just an Ordinary Guy
15. Goin` to the Dance with You
16. On a Turquoise Cloud

Album Information

Release Date:

05/29/2001

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Gospel

Subgenre:

Contemp. Christian

Label:

Sony Music Distribution (USA)

Producer:

Jeffrey Lesser

Catalog Number:

89384

Original Release Year:

2001

# of Discs:

1

SPARS Coding:

DDD

Studio/Live:

Studio

Runtime:

54 : 59

Guest Artist:

Jason Alexander; Rob Fisher

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