Bill Charlap: Stardust
The Bill Charlap Trio Plays the Music of Hoagy Carmichael

The Bill Charlap Trio is:
Bill Charlap: Paino
Kenny Washington: Drums
Peter Washington: Bass

Special guests include Tony Bennett (vocals, track 2), Shirley Horn ( vocals, track 10), Frank Wess (3, 8) and Jim Hall (5).

There’s a fitting symmetry implicit in pianist Bill Charlap’s latest Blue Note release, Stardust. It is a symmetry born from purity of purpose, illumined at one end by the timelessness of Hoagy Carmichael’s Americana , and asserted at the other by the clarity of Charlap’s touch. A possessor of an unimpeachable lyricism first heard on record in 1994, and later affirmed on his Blue Note debut, Written In The Stars in 2000, Charlap negotiates the music of Carmichael as if he’s lived it always - an impressive sleight-of-hand considering the disparate backgrounds from which these jazzmen come: one was inspired by lazy Indiana summers; the other, the fast-break rhythms of New York. What gives this album that extra touch is the extremely special line up of guest stars.

Song List:
1. Jubilee [Music]
2. I Get Along Without You Very Well [Music]
3. Rockin' Chair [Music]
4. I Walk With Music [Music]
5. Two Sleepy People [Music]
6. The Nearness of You
7. One Morning in May
8. Blue Orchids
9. Georgia on My Mind
10. Stardust
11. Skylark