# Meredith d’Ambrosio’s singing and piano are gorgeous, her playing is so sensitive and articulate in the Bill Evans: Photos, Videos

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- Published: 2019-03-27T12:39:40+01:00
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**One of our regrets about our college years in Boston during the 1970s is not going
to see Meredith d’Ambrosio perform around town. **

Back then, we was either at the Harvard “Coop” buying jazz LPs, at Paul’s Mall and
the Jazz Workshop at night during the week and at discos on the weekends. We made
up for lost time, and Meredith and I have been pals ever since. Yesterday, I spent
much of the afternoon with Meredith’s _Another Time_.

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 Recorded in 1981 at the Beacon Hill home of Christopher Lyndon,
a journalist, author and radio personality, the album featured Meredith singing 
and accompanying herself on the piano. The album was released on LP on the Shiah
label and then on CD in 1989. Sunnyside Records reissued the album in 1990 and it’s
now available at iTunes.

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 Meredith’s
singing and piano are gorgeous on _Another Time_. Her playing is so sensitive and
articulate in the Bill Evans tradition, and her song choices on the 18-track album
are precious:

 * Alec Wilder and Loonis McGlohon’s _All of Us In It Together_
 * Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke’s _Aren’t You Glad You’re You?_
 * Wilder’s _It’s So Peaceful in the Country_
 * Wilder and Marshall Barer’s _Rain, Rain (Don’t Go ‘Way)_
 * Dave Frishberg’s _Dear Bix_
 * John Latouche and Jerome Moross’s _Lazy Afternoon_
 * Wilder and McGlohon’s _Where’s the Child I Used to Hold?_
 * June Carroll and Arthur Siegel’s _Love Is a Simple Thing_
 * Dave Frishberg and Johnny Mandel’s _You Are There_
 * Wilder, William Engvick and Marty Palitz’s _While We’re Young_
 * Fran Landesman and Bob Dorough’s _Small Day Tomorrow_
 * Wilder and Thad Jones’s _A Child Is Born_
 * Bob Dowd and Meredith’s _The Piano Player (A Thousand and One Saloons)_
 * Larry Morey and Frank Churchill’s _Some Day My Prince Will Come_
 * Wilder’s _Such a Lonely Girl Am I_
 * Frishberg’s _Wheelers and Dealers_
 * George and Ira Gershwin’s _I Was Doin’ All Right_
 * And Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael’s _Skylark_

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 Listen to
the chords Meredith uses to open _You Are There_. Like the chiming of introspective
bells. Or the lullaby quality of _Love Is a Simple Thing. _Or her soft voice and
insanely great chord changes on her own _The Piano Player (A Thousand and One Saloons).
_Or the jewelry-box quality of the opening chords of _Such a Lonely Girl Am I_. 
Or the rarely heard intro to _I Was Doin’ All Right_. And a _Skylark_ that rivals
_Over the Rainbow_. Another time, indeed.

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 When Meredith
sings, I’m transported back to the gentle Boston I knew decades ago: The start of
snow at dusk on Beacon Hill, the reflective majesty of the John Hancock Tower, the
splendor of McKim, Mead and White’s Boston Public Library, the grace of the old 
Copley Square Hotel and its Merry-Go-Round bar, the now-shuttered music and instrument
shops in the theater district, the long-lost Ken’s Deli at Copley, the windup toy
sound of the trollies, the taste of Italian pastry in the North End, the shouts 
of vendors at Quincy Market, Boston Gardens in the spring and the wind-swept, Brutalist
expanse of the Christian Science Plaza and reflecting pool on Huntington Avenue.

When you start playing Meredith’s album, you, too will find yourself back in Boston,
even if you’ve never been.

_It’s So Peaceful in the Country_…

_Rain, Rain (Don’t Go ‘Way)_…

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