Karrin Allyson: Something Worth Waiting For (Con Alma)
Track
Something Worth Waiting For (Con Alma)
Artist
Karrin Allyson (vocals)
CD
Footprints (Concord 2291)
Musicians:
Karrin Allyson (vocals), Bruce Barth (piano), Peter Washington (bass), Todd Strait (drums).
Music by Dizzy Gillespie with lyrics by Chris Caswell
.Recorded: New York, September 24-29, 2005
Rating: 91/100 (learn more)
I’ve always admired Dizzy Gillespie’s composition “Con Alma” for its clever chord progression – a good transposing assignment for students -- but its melody bores me with its simple half notes and held whole notes. But Allyson’s reconfiguration of this piece into “Something Worth Waiting For,” with lyrics by Chris Caswell, was a revelation. I never envisioned that this quirky harmonic exercise was capable of such emotional depths. Some singers are storytellers, others are entertainers, many are just poseurs; but Allyson is a psychologist, probing inside the lyric for the song inside the song. Highly recommended.
Reviewer: Ted Gioia
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