Álbum Cheek to Cheek de Lady Gaga - Canciones
Cheek to Cheek
Reseña
El álbum colaborativo Cheek to Cheek, de 2014, es uno de los proyectos más sorprendentes y elegantes de la carrera de Lady Gaga. En este trabajo, la reina del pop se une a una de las mayores leyendas de la música, el icónico crooner Tony Bennett, para rendir un homenaje exquisito al "Great American Songbook" y a los clásicos del jazz.
Por esta razón, el álbum fue un éxito de crítica y público, y le valió a la pareja un premio Grammy. La química entre la voz potente y versátil de Gaga y la voz experimentada y llena de clase de Bennett es simplemente mágica. De hecho, el disco demuestra que, debajo de la artista pop, habita una de las grandes vocalistas de su generación.
Además, el sonido del disco es puro jazz tradicional. Acompañados por una big band de primer nivel, los dos artistas reinterpretan con un profundo respeto y un gran cariño clásicos inmortales como "Anything Goes", "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" o la canción que da título al disco. Ciertamente, es un trabajo de una calidad musical superlativa.
En definitiva, "Cheek to Cheek" es una joya. Es un proyecto que no solo demostró la increíble versatilidad de Lady Gaga, sino que también sirvió para presentar el jazz clásico a una nueva generación. Por lo tanto, es una obra atemporal que celebra la grandeza de la buena música.
Listado de canciones del álbum Cheek to Cheek
- Anything GoesVer letra 2:04
Composición: Cole Porter[X]Times have changedletra de Anything Goes
And we've often rewound the clock
Since the Puritans got a shock
When they landed on Plymouth Rock.
If today, any shock they should try to stem,
‘Stead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them.
In olden days a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking
Now heaven knows, anything goes
Good authors too who once knew better words
Now only use four letter words writing prose
Anything goes
The world has gone mad today
And good's bad today
And black's white today
And day's night today
When most guys today that women prize today
Are just silly gigolos
So though I'm not a great romancer
I know that you're bound to answer
When I propose, anything goes - Cheek to Cheek 2:51
Composición: Irving BerlinArreglos: Marion Evans - Nature BoyVer letra 4:08
Composición: Eden AhbezMúsicos invitados: Paul Horn (Flute [Solo]), Tom Ranier (Piano)[X]There was a boy...letra de Nature Boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wondered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he
And then one day
One magic day, passed my way
And as we spoke of many things,
Fools and kings,
This he said to me
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return"
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return" - I Can´t Give You Anything but Love 3:13
Composición: Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy FieldsArreglos: Alex Smith (7), Brian Newman (4), Steve KortykaMúsicos invitados: Scott Ritchie (Bass), Paul Francis (9) (Drums), Alex Smith (7) (Piano), Steve Kortyka (Saxophone), Brian Newman (4) (Trumpet) - I Won´t Dance 3:57
Composición: Hammerstein-Kern, Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields, Otto HarbachMúsicos invitados: Tom Ranier (Piano), Joe Lovano (Tenor Saxophone [Solo]) - Firefly 1:58
Composición: Carolyn Leigh, Cy ColemanArreglos: Steve KortykaMúsicos invitados: Scott Ritchie (Bass), Paul Francis (9) (Drums), Alex Smith (7) (Piano), Steve Kortyka (Saxophone), Brian Newman (4) (Trumpet) - Lush LifeVer letra 4:15
Composición: Billy StrayhornMúsicos invitados: Tom Ranier (Piano)[X]I used to visit all the very gay placesletra de Lush Life
Those come what may places
Where one relaxes on the axis of the wheel of life
To get the feel of life
From jazz and cocktails
The girls I knew had sad and sullen gray faces
With distingué traces
That used to be there you could see where
They'd been washed away
By too many through the day
Twelve o'clocktails
Then you came along with your siren's song
To tempt me to madness
I thought for a while that your pointed smile
Was tinged with the sadness
Of a great love for me
Ah, yes, I was wrong
Again I was wrong
Life is lonely again
And only last year
Everything seemed so assured
Now life is awful again
And the thoughtful of heart
Could only be a bore
A week in Paris will ease the bite of it
All I care is to smile in spite of it
I'll forget you I will
And yet you are still
Burning inside my brain
Romance is mush
Stifling those who strive
I'll live a lush
Life in some small dive
And there I'll be
While I rot with the rest
Of those whose lives are lonely too - Sophisticated Lady 3:49
Composición: Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell ParishMúsicos invitados: Mike Renzi (Piano [Only]) - Let´s Face the Music and Dance 2:07
Composición: Irving BerlinArreglos: Alex Smith (7)Músicos invitados: Scott Ritchie (Bass), Paul Francis (9) (Drums), Steve Kroon (Percussion), Alex Smith (7) (Piano), Steve Kortyka (Saxophone), Brian Newman (4) (Trumpet) - But Beautiful 4:04
Composición: Jimmy Van Heusen And Johnny Burke - It Don´t Mean a Thing (If It Ain´t Got That Swing) 2:24
Composición: Duke Ellington, Irving MillsMúsicos invitados: Tom Ranier (Piano), Joe Lovano (Tenor Saxophone [Solo]), George Rabbai (Trumpet [Solo])
