Nancy Hamilton's jazz standard, sung energetically by Ella Fitzgerald, expresses love as a condition of cosmic wonder and uncertainty, staring at the moon in child-like bafflement.
When the lonely narrator of this Rodgers and Hart standard sang, "I admire the moon, as a moon, just a moon," you didn't think of a paper orb sailing over a cardboard sea but of a cold, distant hunk of rock.
People were everywhere – on shop-fronts, up lamp-standards, singing and shouting".
Tati Quebra Barraco was black, like Deize, and she challenged prevailing Brazilian beauty standards singing, I'm ugly, but I'm in style/I can pay a motel for a guy.
Starting on March 11, Danish Dance Theatre brings the noirish "Love Songs," choreographed by Tim Rushton, a Brit, and set to jazz standards sung by Caroline Henderson, a Dane.
"Where Do I Go From You," a collection of vocal standards sung by Mr. Chaffin in a tribute to the big-band era, was the PS debut set.
Indeed, almost every top-selling jazz vocal album today is a collection of standards sung with traditional instrumentation, and not merely because the jazz charts are riddled with compilations tied to Ken Burns's soon-to-be-broadcast documentary homage to classicism, "Jazz".
Sunday at 3 p.m., Denise Di Renzo, singer, in "Sweet Refrain," with the David Brunetti Combo; at 5 30, Easter Standard Time, singing group, in "Sunday Soirées at Judy's"; at 8 30, David Sabella, singer, in "No More Mrs. Nice Guy!," with Mark Harman, pianist.
This included a reverential cover of Antonio Carlos Jobim's bossa nova standard "Vivo Sonhando," sung in the introspective but self-assured style of João Gilberto; and "Quase Choro," a ballad with an intriguing chord progression, from one of Mr. Cantuária's solo albums.
Mr. Livingston was directed by his wife Lynne to change the lyrics for the song that became "Silver Bells," a Christmas standard first sung by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in "The Lemon Drop Kid" in 1951.
