Varèse Sarabande VSD-5673
Original Release Date: November 7, 1995
Produced by Bruce Kimmel
Engineer: Vinnie Cirilli
Music by
Stephen
Sondheim
Arrangements:
Terry
Trotter
The Terry Trotter Trio
Terry
Trotter (Piano)
Tom
Warrington (bass)
Joe
La Barbera (drums)
Special Guests:
Brian
G. Kilgore on percussion
Lanny
Morgan on Saxophone
John
Chiodini on Guitar
Musical Selections
1. Company
2. Sorry-Grateful
3. Another Hundred People
4. Someone Is Waiting
5. You Could Drive A Person Crazy
6. Side By Side By Side
7. Barcelona
8. The Ladies Who Lunch
9. Being Alive
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Stephen Sondheim music
without lyrics? Sacrilege! Actually, while it's true that "Another Hundred
People" without its frenetic words ends up more relaxed than it has any right to
be (never mind "Getting Married Today," which isn't even attempted), Terry
Trotter's jazz arrangements of Sondheim's shows are extremely tasteful and a
pleasure to listen to. In this recasting of the groundbreaking Company,
the trio brings out the lovely lyric lines of "Sorry-Grateful" and "Barcelona,"
while "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" ends up as straight-ahead bebop with
Lanny Morgan making a guest appearance on alto sax. This recording is extremely
easy on the ear, especially without the original recording's trademark '70s
organ sound, but to call it "easy listening" would seem an injustice.
--David Horiuchi
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