Bill Charlap

BILL CHARLAP & SANDY STEWART - LOVE IS HERE TO STAY (2005)

1. Love Is Here To Stay
2. After You
3. The Boy Next Door
4. Happiness Is Just AThing Called Joe/A Sleepin' Bee
5. Always
6. Here I Am In Love Again
7. I've Got A Crush On You/Do It Again
8. Where Is Me
9. Dancing On The Ceiling
10. It Might As Well Be Spring
11. I'll Never Go There Anymore

Love Is Here To Stay” is the sort of album that major labels just don’t make anymore. In recent years, projects such as these have more often than not become the provenance of boutique labels such as Audiophile and DRG, whose catalogues are largely devoted to standards as performed by top-shelf cabaret vocalists like Sandy Stewart. In fact, not since the 60s and the Columbia album collaborations of Eileen Farrell and André Previn has the pop or jazz division of a major label actively undertaken a major release devoted to piano-vocal art song interpretations of the American Popular Standard repertoire. This is that sort of album.