Classics by songwriters from Bob Dylan to Howlin' Wolf melt like wax in minimal arrangements featuring the rhythm section of Billy Martin and Chris Wood.
Sunday night at 7 and 9: more trumpet-and-tenor arrangements, featuring a surprise guest on trumpet.
FAIR LAWN SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL Performances are at 8 30 p.m. Big Band Arrangements, featuring Marlene Ver Planck, vocalist.
There is certainly an element of whimsy and nostalgia permeating the imaginative, gentle arrangements featured on "Themes From the Songbook".
Tomorrow night at 8 and 10 30: an evening of trumpet-and-tenor arrangements featuring the tenor saxophonist Jimmy Greene in tandem with Mr. Sickler on trumpet.
Kontroll Csoport, from Hungary, showed strong art-rock leanings, with long suitelike pieces and elaborate, sometimes atonal arrangements featuring twin saxophones.
The show's spare arrangements, featuring her great accompanist, Lee Musiker, gave her ample space both to ruminate and to swing freely.
Carr's emotional songs are backed by bravely original arrangements featuring her own piano and ukulele work, plus strings and brass, and deserve to be heard far beyond the Polish community.
Adele's 21 consists of "timeless" songcraft influenced by Motown, southern soul and country, framed by "organic" arrangements featuring horns, banjos and accordions, with the whole package given just the slightest lick of modern slickness.
And her excellent band — Rod Fleeman on guitar, Ed Howard on bass, Lewis Nash on drums and Bob Sheppard on reeds and woodwinds — buoyed her singing with robust sophisticated arrangements featuring Mr. Sheppard.
