Tom Varner: The Window Up Above - American Songs - New World: NW80552 - CD or download

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Catalogue No: NW80552
Label: New World
Length: 67 minutes

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trad.: Stone Grinds All

Work length1:29

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George Schuller, Peter McCann, Tom Varner

George Jones: The Window Up Above

Work length3:00

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Peter McCann, Tom Varner, George Schuller

Ellington: I Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good)

Work length4:21

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Tom Varner, Peter McCann, George Schuller

Work, H C: Kingdom Coming

Work length4:16

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Peter McCann, George Schuller, Tom Varner

Harold Arlen, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg: Over The Rainbow

Work length4:05

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Tom Varner, George Schuller, Peter McCann

Kenneth Morris: My God Is Real (Yes God Is Real)

Work length3:45

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George Schuller, Peter McCann, Tom Varner

Gershwin: The Man I Love

Work length4:28

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Peter McCann, George Schuller, Tom Varner

trad.: When The Saints Go Marching In

Work length5:03

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Tom Varner, George Schuller, Peter McCann

Henry DeLafayette Webster, Joseph Philbrick Webster: Lorena

Work length1:59

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George Schuller, Tom Varner, Peter McCann

Larry Henley, Red Lane: Till I Get Right

Work length4:56

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George Schuller, Peter McCann, Tom Varner

Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf: Memories of You

Work length4:53

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George Schuller, Peter McCann, Tom Varner

Root: Battle Cry of Freedom

Work length3:07

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Peter McCann, Tom Varner, George Schuller

John Hill Hewitt, Ethel Lynn Eliot Beers: All Quiet on The Potomac

Work length1:57

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Peter McCann, Tom Varner, George Schuller

Williams, H: Ramblin' Man

Work length4:37

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George Schuller, Tom Varner, Peter McCann

H. F. Lyte, W. H Monk: Abide With Me

Work length1:26

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George Schuller, Peter McCann, Tom Varner

Billings: When Jesus Wept

Work length4:33

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Tom Varner, George Schuller, Peter McCann

Bruce Springsteen: With Every Wish

Work length3:48

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Peter McCann, Tom Varner, George Schuller

Tom Varner: The Best Thing

Work length3:44

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Tom Varner, George Schuller, Peter McCann

trad.: There is a Balm in Gilead

Work length1:53

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Peter McCann, Tom Varner, George Schuller

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“I wanted to do something different for this record. Instead of playing my own compositions, I wanted to simply explore a variety of songs that have an inner resonance, whether from family, religion, nation, or culture.”

—Tom Varner

What Tom Varner has attempted on The Window Up Above is nothing less than a survey of the whole American song book, a millenium review of the last three centuries-and he succeeds brilliantly. Every song he has chosen has that American "thing," and his approach to every song is patently jazz, even where he chooses to play the melody "straight" to let its qualities shine through. Highlights abound: The witty, off-center de- and reconstruction of the Revolutionary and Civil War smash hits "Stone Grinds All," "When Jesus Wept," "Kingdom Come, " and "Battle Cry of Freedom" will forever change the way you hear them; his understated, heartfelt renditions of "Lorena," "All Quiet on the Potomac," and "There is a Balm in Gilead" would make a stone weep; to say nothing of his splendid reimaginings of standards like "Over the Rainbow" and "When the Saints Go Marching In." Even Bruce Springsteen gets the treatment, his "With Every Wish" joining George Jones’s "The Window Up Above," Hank Williams's "Ramblin' Man,"(check out Mark Feldman's and Varner's hair-raising solos and closing duet) and Tammy Wynette's "Till I Get it Right" from the country canon. In Varner’s unique arrangements, every song on this collection emerges freshly minted. Once heard, not soon forgotten.

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