Barbra Streisand - One Night Only: Barbra Streisand & Quartet at the Village Vanguard - Music & Performance - CD

Deluxe DVD/CD edition includes bonus CD that contains audio highlights from the performance. One Night Only: Barbra Streisand & Quartet Live AT the Village Vanguard is the first and only live club performance ever released by Streisand. This collaboration with the Grammy-winning Canadian Jazz artist Diana Krall (piano) and her quartet (guitar, bass, drums) brought a refined and sensual poignancy to the album's spare and subtle accompaniments. This rare show, staged in September 2009 to commemorate the release of Barbra's historic #1 CD Love Is the Answer, brings Barbra back to her roots and couples the greatest voice of this century, with the richest songs of American popular music and the Broadway stage.

Barbra Streisand's first time back performing in the Village in almost 50 years is a special occasion, a fact obviously recognized by the thrilled audience that was jam-packed into the tiny Village Vanguard (barely ten dozen seats) as well as by Streisand herself, who expertly conjures the intimacy and tenderness needed for such a special program. Her song selection includes a few career touchstones ("Evergreen," "The Way We Were," "Make Someone Happy"), but also includes references to a host of Village or nightclub favorites, led by "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" and "Ne Me Quitte Pas" (the latter of which she uses to reminisce about seeing Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris). With backing from a quartet led by pianist Tamir Hendelman, Streisand sounds confident, energetic, and occasionally reflective about her career in music; she even reaches back to her '60s repertoire to perform a pair of Rodgers & Hart standards, "My Funny Valentine" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." Granted, eight of the other numbers come from her 2009 studio outing, Love Is the Answer, although they're fairly unobtrusive being largely nightclub standards themselves. Surprisingly, the recording excises very little from the original program; Streisand frequently converses with members of the audience (many of whom hold special memories for her), introduces a string of celebrities, and even finds time to ask a young friend how old she is right in the middle of "In the Wee Small Hours" (which Frank Sinatra never would've tolerated). Streisand's vocal craft is peerless as well. Although her strength with the high notes is waning, she remains the same expressive and endearing vocalist she was decades earlier. ~ John Bush, Rovi

Performer	Barbra Streisand
Music genre	Opera / Vocal
Media format	CD
Edition	Standard
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	One Night Only: Barbra Streisand & Quartet at the Village Vanguard
Track listing	Introductions [DVD], Here's to Life [DVD], In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning [DVD], Gentle Rain [DVD], Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most [DVD], If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas) [DVD], Where Do You Start? [DVD], Nobody's Heart (Belongs to Me) [DVD], Make Someone Happy [DVD], My Funny Valentine [DVD], Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered [DVD], Evergreen (Love Theme from "A Star Is Born") [DVD], Some Other Time [DVD], Way We Were [Encore] [DVD], Cry Me a River [Instrumental] [DVD] [Instrumental], Happy Days Are Here Again [Instrumental] [DVD] [Instrumental], Interview with Village Vanguard Owner Lorraine Gordon [Bonus] [DVD], Credits [DVD], Intro, Here's to Life, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Gentle Rain, Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas), Where Do You Start?, Nobody's Heart (Belongs to Me), Make Someone Happy, My Funny Valentine, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Thank You's and Introductions, Evergreen (Love Theme from "A Star Is Born"), Exit Music, Some Other Time, Way We Were [Encore]
Record label	Sony
Target audience	General/trade
Songwriter	Barbra Streisand
Track name	Intro., Here's to Life, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, Gentle Rain, Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most, If You Go Away (Ne Me Quitte Pas), Where Do You Start?, Nobody's Heart (Belongs to Me), Make Someone Happy, My Funny Valentine, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Thank You's and Introductions., Evergreen (Love Theme From "A Star Is Born"), Exit Music, Some Other Time, Way We Were [Encore], Lorraine Gordon Vignette
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N