Michael Feinstein, the five-time Grammy Award nominated, platinum-selling singer and pianist, will release his new CD Fly Me To The Moon - featuring guitar legend JOE NEGRI - on September 28, 2010. The disc, released through DuckHole Records, will be available on iTunes, Amazon.com and in stores on Tuesday, September 28. The CD is being released in conjunction with "Michael Feinstein's American Songbook," the primetime PBS-TV reality/documentary series, which starts airing nationally on Wednesday, October 6. Feinstein and Negri will have a special in-store performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center (1972 Broadway at 66th Street) at 5:00 PM on Monday, October 18.
This intimate new recording of classic standards with a sustained meditative mood follows in the tradition of singers like Johnny Mathis and Sammy Davis, Jr., who recorded popular albums with guitar accompaniment. Michael and Joe first met on one of Michael's performances with the Pittsburg Symphony, where Negri is the regular guitarist. "Joe is so facile that can play just about anything," says Michael. "He is extraordinarily talented and very easy to collaborate with. Music just pours out of him." The CD was produced by Mr. Feinstein and also boasts Jay Leonhart on bass and Joe Cucuzzo on drums.Fly Me To The Moon features time-honored standards like "It Could Happen To You," which includes the rarely-recorded verse. The Bart Howard title track - long ago changed from its original moniker "In Other Words" - tends to be taken at a fast pace. For this album, Feinstein and Negri restore the delicate waltz time in which it was written.Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski
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