The New York Times reviews Give Me Fever: The Many Voices of Peggy Lee , presented as part of the Lyrics & Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y.<\/p>\n
Because a vocal signature is as distinct as a fingerprint, there is a crucial difference between shows that pay tribute to a singer and those that salute a songwriter. Unless the performer is a skilled impersonator, what you hear are distant echoes of a voice that only call attention to the absence of the musician being remembered. In the case of a songwriter the material speaks for itself. <\/p>\n
That said, \u201cGive Me Fever: The Many Voices of Peggy Lee,\u201d at the Lyrics & Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday evening, hosted by the singer and pianist Billy Stritch, made do with four able surrogates (five, if you count Mr. Stritch\u2019s suave contributions) who stamped Lee\u2019s catalog with their own personalities.<\/p>\n
Marilyn Maye, La Tanya Hall, Barbara Fasano and Gabrielle Stravelli all play in the sophisticated pop-jazz ballpark Lee helped build. But none possesses the mesmerizing, faintly ominous Lee mystique, which might be described as a refined hybrid: two parts Billie Holiday to one part Mae West. Simply by raising an eyebrow and flashing the shadow of a half-smile, Lee projected an insinuating erotic intensity while swinging songs in a husky near-murmur, every nuance calculated to the last breath.<\/p>\n
The Lee acolytes were accompanied by an excellent quartet that, besides Mr. Stritch, included John Hart on guitar, Tom Hubbard on bass and Ray Marchica on drums. The script, written by Mr. Stritch with Mark Waldrop, repeatedly called attention to Lee\u2019s often overlooked gifts as a lyricist.<\/p>\n
The talents on hand were considerable. Ms. Hall, who sang \u201cBlack Coffee,\u201d the 1948 torch song that weirdly substitutes caffeine for alcohol, was the most elegant and sinuous of the four and Ms. Stravelli (\u201cDay In, Day Out\u201d) the jazziest. Ms. Fasano sang warm, tonally rounded versions of \u201cBut Beautiful\u201d and \u201cThe Shining Sea.\u201d Ms. Maye, that ageless eternal optimist, turned the rueful \u201cWhen the World Was Young (Ah, the Apple Trees)\u201d into a satisfied summation and transformed \u201cIs That All There Is?,\u201d a confession of lifelong ennui and disappointment, into a hearty sigh of contentment. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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