Rossano Sportiello (vocals); Lucy Yeghiazaryan (vocals)
Stream number 86, Live at the Flat. That's pianist Rossano Sportiello's long running series of online concerts, some solo piano, some as a duo or trio. This evening - 10:00pm BSH time, 5:00pm Greenwich Village, NYC time - Sportiello invited singer Lucy Yeghiazaryan to join him to sing some GASbook gems and more. The duo recently worked together in Uruguay and here they were back on home turf. It must have been cold, Lucy said as much, sitting there all wrapped up.
Rossano Sportiello is elegance personified, both sartorially and as a piano player. Rossano plays stride piano with a feather-like touch, the supreme accompanist, the exact requirements for this evening's Greenwich Village session. Lucy Yeghiazaryan, of Armenian heritage, is a student of the GASbook, opening the hour-long stream with I Only Have Eyes for You. Sublime, from here on in it was one classy duo performance. I Cried for You (Rossano recalled Zoot Sims playing the number), Lucy sang You're Blasé (superb), Nicholas Brodszky's Wonder Why (superb), a tune our twenty-something vocalist has recently turned to, the tag 'the real deal' applies to Ms Yeghiazaryan.
Give Me the Simple Life (Tony Bennett would have been impressed, perhaps the man was watching online) I've Got a Crush on You (Sinatra would have been impressed), then to close, Come Fly with Me. If Rossano and Lucy aren't heading over the Atlantic any time soon, there's only one thing for it...NYC here we come! Russell
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