Steve tyrell songs of sammy cahn biography
Grammy Award-winning vocalist Steve Tyrell is truly a renaissance man.
Steve Tyrell (born Stephen Louis Bilao III, December 19, ) is an American singer and record producer.!
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Label: Concord Records
On Steve Tyrell’s 10th album, It’s Magic: The Songs of Sammy Cahn, the GRAMMY award-winning singer/songwriter/producer celebrates the iconic American songwriter’s centennial birthday.
Complemented with longtime collaborators, Tyrell explores 13 of his favorite Cahn songs, illustrating their everlasting vitality. The musicians include guitarist Bob Mann, pianists Alan Broadbent and Quinn Johnson, bassists David Finck and Ed Howard, drummers Kevin Winard and Jim Sapporito, and feature soloist David Mann on saxophone, and Lew Soloff on trumpet.
The arrangements are provided by a legendary group that include Alan Broadbendt, Don Sebesky, John Oddo, and Bob Mann, and is produced by Steve Tyrell and Jon Allen.
The idea to record a Cahn songbook project first came to Tyrell last year, after he performed “It’s Crazy,” at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Va.
(right outside of Washington, D.C.). It was one of the last tunes Cahn penned in