The cover case radiates joy and pleasure. And that's exactly what the music sounds like on the Songplay album. Almost every singer started his or her singing career with the collection Twenty-Four Italian Songs And Arias with 17th and 18th century songs. This is also the case for the American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. For years, pianist Craig Terry had the idea to give these songs a different
… twist. With a lot of room for improvisation as one is used to with jazz. Even in the Baroque era, a singer used improvisation, the playing of a melody, to show his art. In addition to these classic arias, DiDonato and Terry also perform some favorite classics from the Great American Songbook. Melodies are freely decorated and exciting jazz chords regularly sound on the piano. Supplemented with extra instrumentalists (trumpet / flugelhorn, double bass, drums, bandoneon) splashes the fun! (SvdP)more