Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook
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| Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | September 1993 | |||
| Studio | American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 1:09:11 | |||
| Label | Philips 442 129-2[1] | |||
| Producer | Elizabeth Ostrow | |||
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| Sylvia McNair chronology | ||||
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Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook is a 1994 album by André Previn and Sylvia McNair of songs by the composer Jerome Kern.[2]
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
The album was reviewed by Dave Nathan at Allmusic who wrote that aside from "There's no scatting or wordless singing and absolutely no risk-taking (except in the making of the album). Nevertheless, there are some very pleasant musical moments here, and on a couple of tunes McNair tries to inject some jazz feeling into her singing...Typically, Previn plays no-nonsense accompaniment for McNair, then takes a chorus or two in a jazz mode. There's no pretense here. McNair doesn't try to do jazz. Rather, she and her friends perform almost 70 minutes of very pleasant, straightforward music of one of the major contributors to the Great American Songbook ".[2]
