Word: songe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sinatra lived the music at every tempo, the sad soul of it as well as the brash, brassy swing. Or maybe his need to graft his life onto every song he sang was an unintended effect of his artistry, a scramble to find personal corollaries for every melody he molded, every lyric he bent to his own will and purpose...
...classic American pop fought a pitched battle against the engulfing tide of rock in the '60s. Became music's elder statesman in the '70s. Then the resurgent master of the '80s. And--at last, at the end of his days--the icon who could be forgiven anything for a song...
...made everything he sang matter so much. He passed songs along like pieces of a shared life, an intimacy between himself and whoever was listening. You could play a Sinatra album all alone or hear him in a stadium. Either way, it was always the same: a one-on-one experience, the song a shared secret between the singer and you. Only...
Just try to find a new Sinatra. Scan the billboard album charts, and you'll find no one openly Sinatraesque. Check out The Jazz Singers (the Smithsonian Collection), a new five-CD, 104-song collection of the greatest jazz vocalists of the 20th century; the only singer featured who sounds overtly like Sinatra is Sinatra himself, represented by his 1956 Nelson Riddle-arranged rendition of Night...
...widely considered to be the best jazz vocalist of the '90s. "He comes from a time when it was about the phrasing of a piece, the emotional content of a piece. He descended from Billie Holiday and singers who placed more emphasis on the lyrical content of a song. He was very disciplined, and I don't think modern singers are as disciplined anymore...