Jazz baby: Movie of Your Life.Jazz baby Movie of Your Life * Spencer Day * Self-released In a different era, Spencer Day would be writing tunes for Fred and Ginger musicals. Fashionable or not, this San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden singer-pianist is adept at crafting sublime originals that update Tin Pan Alley Tin Pan Alley Genre of U.S. popular music that arose in New York in the late 19th century. The name was coined by the songwriter Monroe Rosenfeld as the byname of the street on which the industry was based—28th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in the early conventions with contemporary touches--with its Hammond organ and pillow-soft backing vocals, "My Oh My" recalls Steely Dan. Though Day's warm, romantic baritone resembles Rufus Wainwright's, his delivery is more persuasive, less histrionic histrionic /his·tri·on·ic/ (his?tre-on´ik) excessively dramatic or emotional, as in histrionic personality disorder; see under personality. ; the lengthy title track--accompanied by a swell bonus video that pays homage to cinema classics from The Sheik to The War of the Worlds--confirms the 26-year-old's gift for gradually building to an emotional climax. Bonus points for best use of the word distingue dis·tin·gué adj. Distinguished in appearance, manner, or bearing. [French, past participle of distinguer, to distinguish, from Old French; see distinguish.] in a lyric since "Lush Life." |
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