'Round Midnight

By Linda Ronstadt

This feels very like Riddle's original piano set-up in preparation for the orchestration, and before Ronstadt's interpretation. Some of the recording's sweeter moments are missing, and you have to know the recording intimately to find the (frequently unmarked) solo sections.I kinda wanted to knock off...

a star for some of the missing musical elements, as well as the book not being spiral-bound, but it is just too great a compilation otherwise: it follows each album song-for-song, in the unapologetically nasty (in many cases) original keys, with most of the flourishes and ornaments that made those songs so achingly addictive to listen to.I wish Ronstadt's other specialty albums (Canciones de mi Padre, Frenesi, Hummin' to Myself) were set out like this.

I love all the songs from this collection and was expecting the usual standard simple arrangements in whatever key they were written in. To my delight these arrangements are rich and detailed very faithful to the nelson riddle recordings. Not for the casual sing-along pianist - most of these arrangements...

are pretty advanced but well worth mastering.

I am 59 years old and with my first voice teacher. I have only been singing (and NOT lip syncing) for about a dozen years. In June, 2007, I started with my first voice teacher ever...and was scared to death! My voice range works well with 'Round Midnight by...

Linda Rondstadt.

I agree with Lori- but not just for female singers.When you come across quality work like this ,it is a joy to play. Why do the music publishers assume we are all idiots and "dumb" down everything to easy play and easy keys. This is well worth the extra...

effort involved. Well done "Alfred"!!

These are beautiful arrangements and one of the rare editions of standards published in stylistically appropriate keys for jazz singing. I was shocked to see the review of s. Johnson who says she sings along to the albums but then would prefer to own them in easy to play keys...

. There are many, many, many standards books in easy to play form and /or easy keys, this is one of the very few published in "singable' keys, and I am a soprano, however if you want to sing jazz style and sound good you MUST sing them in the keys that ACTUAL artists like Ronsadt, Fitzgerald, etc perform them or you end up struggling like many singers do who don't know that they are tring to sing a song in a much higher key than even the greats perform them just because it is easier to play on the piano. Publisher-there are customers out there who want tunes published in good keys for female voices!