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New Worlds - Billy Murray (vocals); Jan Vogler (cello); Mira Wang (violin); Vanessa Perez (piano)
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  1. Work(s): The Swan / Blessing the Boats
  2. Work(s): From "Song of the Open Road" And "Song of Myself"
  3. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude
  4. Work(s): Andante Un Poco Mosso From Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, D. 898/From "The Deerslayer"
  5. Porgy and Bess, opera: It Ain't Necessarily So
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  1. Work(s): The Swan / Blessing the Boats
  2. Work(s): From "Song of the Open Road" And "Song of Myself"
  3. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude
  4. Work(s): Andante Un Poco Mosso From Trio No. 1 in B-Flat Major, D. 898/From "The Deerslayer"
  5. Porgy and Bess, opera: It Ain't Necessarily So
  6. La muerte del ángel, tango (from Ángel series)
  7. When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God
  8. Work(s): Moon River / From "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
  9. Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, for voice & piano
  10. Work(s): Blues From Sonata for Violin and Piano / "If Grant Had Been Drinking At Appomattox"
  11. Somewhere, song (from "West Side Story")
  12. I Feel Pretty, song (from "West Side Story")
  13. America, song (from "West Side Story")
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This thoroughly offbeat release arose as the result of a chance meeting in 2013 between comic actor Bill Murray and cellist Jan Vogler, and it has the kind of spontaneity that background might imply. Some will buy it on the strength of Murray's name, and you might sample sheer vaudevillian joy of his version of "It Ain't Necessarily So": it's worth the purchase price all by itself. Murray's Jeanie with Light Brown Hair...maybe not so much. But the attraction of the album is not the musical value of Murray's singing or ...

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