Intermediate/Advanced. When Charlie Parker made his famous ""with strings"" recordings, jazz musicians realized the potential of lushly orchestrated strings to enhance their own creativity. Legendary players soon followed suit, making a ""with strings"" album almost an essential rite of passage. Here are 10 beautiful standards arranged by jazz great and award-winning arranger Lennie Niehaus.
Rhythm Section: Steve Allee (p); Tyrone Wheeler (b); Steve Davis (d); Peter McHugh (Violins); Alan Oldfield (Synth Strings)
Includes: I Cover The Waterfront, Fools Rush In, You Go To My Head, September In The Rain, You're My Everything, You & The Night & The Music, Autumn In New York, When Your Lover Has Gone, Namely You; Lover, Come Back To Me
