Tyrell and Band perform The Great American Songbook
Release Date: Mar 07, 2010 Author: Caty Weiss
WICKENBURG, AZ -
The Grammy Award-winning vocalist, producer and composer Steve Tyrell will appear with his band for one night only at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, March 12 at 7:30PM.
In his four and ˝ decades in the music business Tyrell feels he has one album that he was destined to make – his latest album is so singularly in-sync with his sensibility and history that its’ making smacks of pure destiny. For Steve Tyrell - the distinguished Emmy nominated purveyor of pop standards - that album is Back to Bacharach, a deeply personal collection of songs from the piano of Burt Bacharach and the pen of Hal David.
For music lovers the world over, songs like "The Look of Love," "Walk On By," "Close to You," "A House Is Not a Home" and "Alfie" are indelibly bound to our DNA, haunting strands of melodious memories that bring forth a flood of emotions and associations. For Steve Tyrell, they represent milestones in a distinguished career and the joys and pains of his own personal life. It is because of his close proximity to the songs and their creators that Steve is able to bring something unique to his versions while being fortunate enough to include Dionne Warwick, Herb Alpert and 2008 Grammy Award winner Patti Austin, as well as Bacharach himself, on the CD to relive the golden moments.
"That album is different from any Ill ever do," states Tyrell, who in the last decade has been at the forefront of a renaissance in recordings from the Great American Songbook via his previous six projects and the Grammy winning albums he produced with Rod Stewart. "The music of my friends Burt and Hal have been a lifelong collaboration. Their songs are my songs. Its a very unique situation."
Tyrell will perform from the Great American Songbook including selections from his
Back to Bacharach CD on the Webb Centers stage Friday evening.
Tickets are on sale through the Webb Center Box Office, 684-6624 or on-line at www.delewebbcenter.org.