# CD review: Svetlana – Night at the Movies 2019: Video, Photos

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/09/19/cd-review-svetlana-celebrates-night-at-the-movies-2019-video-photos/
- Published: 2019-09-19T22:59:04+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Svetlana came from Russia to America as a kid. She spoke little or no English.
She learned some of the language seeing movies. Growing up in Moscow, movies were
windows on the world outside of Soviet walls. **

Svetlana also gravitated to singers — especially jazz singers, especially Ella Fitzgerald.
Her love of jazz and movies comes together on her new album, _Night at the Movies._

She sings favorite songs from favorite movies of the ‘30s: Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile,”
Judy Garland’s “Over The Rainbow,” Jiminy Cricket’s “When You Wish Upon a Star,”
and fellow Russian expat Irving Berlin’s “Cheek To Cheek.”

She sings cinematic songs from all the decades: “Moon River,” “Pure Imagination,”
Stephen Sondheim’s Oscar-winning “Sooner or Later,” and one of the most upbeat songs
of recent years, “Happy” by Pharrell Williams, as a duet with trombonist Wycliffe
Gordon. Another highlight hearkens back to her homeland: “No One’s Home,” sung in
Russian.

Svetlana will celebrate _Night at the Movies _with a concert on Sept. 21 at Joe’s
Pub in Manhattan. And she came to WBGO, singing with her band and talking with me
on _Singers Unlimited._

Here is “Moonlight,” with Wayne Tucker on trumpet, Christopher McBride on saxophone,
Willerm Delisfort on piano, Elias Baley on bass and Henry Conerway on drums.

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