The album, whose basic tracks were recorded in just two days, is Mr. Webb's first American release since his 1996 album "Ten Easy Pieces," which featured some of the same songs done with spare voice and piano arrangements.
The stunning concert, spun off from his spare voice-and-piano album, "Simply Broadway," was a benefit for the Actors Fund, of which Mr. Mitchell is the chairman.
He was an Auschwitz survivor, spared because his voice pleased the SS guards, who particularly enjoyed his rendering of "O Sole Mio".
A film tells Mr. Cameron's story: Held as a suspect in a rape and murder, he was pulled from a jail in Marion, Ind., in 1930 by a mob and beaten, but his life was spared when a voice in the crowd vouched for his innocence.
The experience deepened his knowledge of popular standards, and he leans heavily on them, but his arrangements offer wide variations in texture, from dense blends of vibes and keys to spare pairings of voice and bass.
Although Ms. LaVette sings it raw, with minimal vocal embellishment, this slender, fit woman, with power to spare in her voice, infuses everything with the narrative acuity of a natural storyteller who has survived to deliver the tale.
If Robertson had publicly opposed the war, I told them, his influential voice might have spared those lives.
Mr Lynne says he gave up touring in 1982, "so my voice has been spared every night of shouting all night long".
Yet Mazzoli absorbs these and other elements into her own spare, propulsive voice.
These writers and his own love of mathematics would help shape Mr. Coetzee's spare, stylized voice.
