songbook

After all, they concocted a rich and deeply affecting songbook that never fails to rouse my inspiration and, truly, to heighten the experience of simply being alive.

Mayhem marks Gaga's full throttle return to pop, after a period where she'd been preoccupied with her film career, and spin-off albums that dabbled in jazz and the classic American songbook.

The Washington Post said she “embodied the Quiet Storm a full decade before it became a successful radio format” and NPR credited her with being one of the “prime revisionists of the American songbook.”

The irreplaceable Barbara Cook put her interpretive stamp on Sondheim’s songbook in her concert tributes, reanimating musical treasures through her own introspective moonlight.

In it, she evoked what it was like growing up with the renowned hitmaker, who is credited with expanding the American songbook and shaping the careers of Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson.