Barb Jungr & John McDaniel: Come Together

Rating: ★★★

Record and Artist Details

Musicians:

Barb Jungr (v, perc)
John McDaniel (v, p)

Label:

Kristalyn

March/2017

Catalogue Number:

KLCD04

RecordDate:

date not stated

The impetus for this new collaboration between award-winning vocalist and performer Barb Jungr and Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning producer, composer, conductor and pianist John McDaniel came about when the duo put together a Beatles medley for a gala performance at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut in August 2015. If Come Together doesn't quite reach the same artistic heights as Jungr's interpretations of Dylan and Cohen, there's still plenty to delight the ear and warm the heart, not least the way in which the duo's vocals blend so mellifluously with each other on songs such as ‘Things We Said Today’ and ‘I Will’. Then there's Jungr's compelling vocal on the title-track and forceful harmonica playing on ‘Back In The USSR’, and McDaniel's beautiful piano voicings on ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘The Fool On The Hill’. Reimagined as an almost Sondheimesque showstopper, the latter's solo take on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ also impresses.

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