Club44 Records has announced the release of Love Notes, the new album from LINDA LAVIN – the Tony Award and Golden Globe winning and Emmy Award nominated stage and screen legend – today, Friday, March 27. Love Notes, an elegant and swinging mix of timeless standards, jazz classics and gems of the pop/rock era, features the album’s first single, “Stars Would Fall,” a sophisticated new song by Joel Lindsey and Wayne Haun. The album features liner notes by her longtime collaborators and friends Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso, in addition to a portrait by her husband Steve Bakunas. Love Notes is produced by Billy Stritch, with Wayne Haun serving as executive producer.
Linda and Billy are celebrating the album with a continuation of their “Facebook Live” concert series, featuring special songs and anecdotes, on Wednesday, April 1 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time. Tune in online at facebook.com/bstritch
Love Notes highlights Lavin’s burnished vocals, which bring out new and unexpected shades from classic standards by Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Richard Rodgers, Vernon Duke, with surprises thrown in by seminal pop outfits Steely Dan and The Eagles. The album features Billy Stritch on piano and guest vocals, Aaron Weinstein on violin and mandolin, Tom Hubbard on bass, Jeff Barone on guitar, and Daniel Glass on drums.
The New York Times has raved about Lavin’s “musical smarts, sense of humor and upbeat philosophy of living in the moment.” Her singing was praised by Jazz Times for its “sass and panache.” According to Time Out New York, “Singer-actor extraordinaire Linda Lavin has few peers as a performer.”
LINDA LAVIN – LOVE NOTES TRACK LIST:
1. I’ve Got My Eyes on You / You Do Something to Me (Cole Porter)
2. Not A Care in the World (Vernon Duke & John Latouche) / Shall We Dance (George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin)
3. I Wish I Were in Love Again (Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
4. I Can’t Tell You Why (Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit & Glenn Frey) / I Walk a Little Faster (Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh)
5. Chega de Saudade (No More Blues) (Antonio Carlos Jobim & Vinícius de Moraes)
6. Stars Would Fall (Joel Lindsey & Wayne Haun)
7. Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don’t Tease Me) (Duke Ellington & Leonard Gaines)
8. Black Cow (Donald Fagen & Walter Becker)
9. Ace in the Hole / Rap Tap on Wood (Cole Porter)
10. It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing) (Duke Ellington & Irving Mills) / I Got Rhythm (George & Ira Gershwin)
11. You Must Believe in Spring (Michel Legrand, Jacques Demy & Alan and Marilyn Bergman)
12. How High the Moon (Nancy Hamilton & Morgan Lewis)