On the night of May 11th, at the legendary "Bitter End" rock club in New York City, jazz vocalist Sarah Partridge debuted songs from her new album, "Bright Lights & Promises: Redefining Janis Ian" to rave reviews. Thrilled with the prospect of a gifted jazz vocalist r. Special Guest: Janis Ian (on 'A Quarter Past Heartache') Vocalist Sarah Partridge introduced an impressive body of original compositions on her 2015 Origin Records release 'Id Never Thought Id Be Here,' but for her new project, she wanted to celebrate a singer/songwriter outside of her own genre and beyond the Great American Songbook. Partridge met Ian in an online group of Grammy voters and ignited the idea. But Sarah Partridge is the first to excavate the equally rich Janis Ian oeuvre. The songbooks of Dylan, Lennon and McCartney, Paul Simon, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell and Laura Nyro have all been well-mined by jazz artists. She did have a precociously mature social consciousness-her first hit, "Society's Child," dealt with the establishment's disdain for interracial romance-and her biggest single, the chart-topping "At. When Janis Ian arrived in the 1960s as a teenaged singer-songwriter armed with an acoustic guitar, no one would have confused her with a jazz singer. By the mid-1970s she was on the map with her anthem "At Seventeen", a cutting commentary on the standards of beauty and adolescent cruelty (and this was pre-social media!). Ian made her mark early in her career as a teenager in the mid 1960s. SARAH PARTRIDGE's BRIGHT LIGHTS & PROMISES is subtitled Redefining Janis Ian. The Partridge and Ian are so compatible that they even co-composed two of the songs on. Many jazz artists have performed Joni Mitchell songs but Ian (who burst on the scene at age 14 with "Society's Child" in 1966) has been overlooked by the jazz world. Jazz singer Sarah Partridge came up with inspired idea to record an album of songs by Janis Ian. US jazz artist Sarah Partridge is that person who dreamed up this project to reinterpret some of Janis. It takes a brave soul to set out to "redefine" her songs at all, but in another genre and style altogether requires a giant leap of faith. Take that homage makers! Long after you've taken Ian for granted, this revival does more than pump. Well, Partridge brings in Allen Farnham to help with the music and brings in Ian herself to co-write some new ones. If Partridge wasn't the art chick with loads extra, we'd have to be scratching our heads wondering why a jazz tribute to Janis Ian. ĥ-STARS How did nobody think to go here before? With a glut of fine Joni Mitchell tributes on the market and a couple of engrossing Laura Nyro nods out there, how is it that no creative spirits in the jazz or cabaret camps thought to make the full-on jump to Janis Ian before now? Hearing Sarah Partridge dig into Ian's body of work makes this conc.
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Jazz vocalist Sarah Partridge was only tinkering with the idea of recording one or two songs written by singer-songwriter Janis Ian, best known for her hits, "At Seventeen" and "Society's Child." Recently, from the stage where the teenage Ian herself sang in the 1960s, Partridge celebrated the release of her full CD of Janis Ian songs. Reviews of Bright Lights and Promises: Redefining Janis Ian