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The Art of the Song - Charlie Haden
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  1. Lonely Town
  2. Why Did I Choose You?
  3. Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16
  4. In Love in Vain, song (from "Centennial Summer")
  5. Ruth's Waltz
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  1. Lonely Town
  2. Why Did I Choose You?
  3. Moments Musicaux (6) for piano, Op. 16
  4. In Love in Vain, song (from "Centennial Summer")
  5. Ruth's Waltz
  6. Scenes from a Silver Screen
  7. I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life
  8. You My Love
  9. Prélude, for piano
  10. The Folks Who Live on the Hill, song (from the film "High, Wide and Handsom
  11. Easy on the Heart
  12. Theme for Charlie
  13. Wayfaring Stranger, religious ballad]
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The title of The Art of the Song should signal that the album is not the average effort from Charlie Haden. Instead of the adventurous instrumental post-bop that is his stock-in-trade, The Art of the Song finds him concentrating on songs, going so far to feature Shirley Horn and Bill Henderson on lead vocals on four songs apiece. As it turns out, it's not a great departure -- there's a moody, evocative tone that ties together his later works -- but it is enough to make The Art of the Song a distinctive, engaging work from ...

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