Title: Jazz numbers ruined by orchestra
Product review: I watched the first Playboy Penthouse show with Cy Coleman. Mr. Coleman was great. His voice was in top form, his piano arrangements had the right edgy hip jazz take to them, a great performance. He played three songs, Witchcraft, You Fascinate Me So, and The Best Is Yet to Come. The band was a trio, piano, bass, and trumpet. Later, I saw this CD online and bought it. What a disappointment. What I got was sappy, over orchestrated, arrangements that took the life, the jazz out of every song. He seems to have evolved into a musician appealing to everyman, everyman over 70 years old. Jazz by sappy old men. Bebop to Geritol. What happened to the cool hip Cy Coleman I saw on TV? The performance on this CD is terrible. He was so great. What happened?
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