Jerome Kern - Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern

Living Era's tribute to songwriter Jerome Kern touches upon many of his finest melodies with recordings made between 1925 and 1947. The stylistic range, however, seems at times a bit stuffy given Kern's lasting influence upon the jazz world. While Dinah Shore, Connee Boswell and Fred Astaire each perform exquisitely, the genteel inflections of James Melton, Frances Langford and Lawrence Tibbett impose a sugar-glazed rigidity that could have been avoided if the producers had sprinkled in a few hipper versions by Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Frankie Newton or Sarah Vaughan. Read More