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Program #2027
Jazz vocalist Nora York launched her career on the Lower East Side performance art circuit, and subsequently won acclaim for her daringly unconventional interpretations of popular jazz standards. She frequently shifts the gender of the lyrics, or alter the emphasis of the song, as we hear in cuts from her album Double Take, as well as a live recording of "Alabama Song," from Symphony Space's recent Wall To Wall Kurt Weill program. Continuing with the theme of updating famous standards, we feature a performance in the WNYC studio by Suzzy and Maggie Roche; and the band Last Forever, from a New Sounds Live performance at Merkin Hall.
PROGRAM # 2027, with Suzzy and Maggie Roche (First aired on Tues, April 9, 2002)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Nora York |
Double Take |
She Moved Through The Fair [2:30] |
Private CD. Info at www.norayork.com |
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Nora York |
Live, Wall To Wall Kurt Weill at Symphony Space, 3/25/00 |
Alabama Song [6:30] |
Not commercially available; see above. |
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Nora York |
Double Take |
Eulalie [5:00] |
Private CD. Info at www.norayork.com |
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Last Forever (Dick Connette, Sonya Cohen) |
New Sounds Live, 2/7/02, Merkin Hall |
Nearest Cloud [3:30] |
Last Forever's two CDs, Last Forever and Trainfare Home, are on the Nonesuch label**; these piece will probably be on the group's next CD. Info at www.nonesuch.com or http://www.lastforever.net/ |
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Suzzy & Maggie Roche, et. al. |
Live |
Jeremiah [3:30] Each Of Us Has A Name [3:00] New York City [3:30] Anyway [3:00] |
All of these are on the CD "Zero Church," Red House Records #157.** www.redhouserecords.com or 1-800-695-4687 |
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Last Forever (Dick Connette, Sonya Cohen) |
New Sounds Live, 2/7/02, Merkin Hall |
All Along [5:00] |
See above. |
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