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HIROMI NAKAMIZO, who sings jazz, pop, and classical music, has created a jazz musical album with orchestral string sounds.The powerful, supple, yet transparent sound resonates straight through.192KHz / 32bit high resolution recording.'I want to be a singer!' Nakamizo Hiromi has been studying music since she was a child. She has always challenged herself to sing classical, jazz, pop, and original songs. She had a dream of singing on stage in a musical. This time, 'My Broadway' was born from that long-held dream. This work is a condensed version of the various dramas sung in the story that unfolds on stage. Thesound producer is jazz pianist Toyama Akiko, and the fusion of her free-spirited arrangements and musical standards has taken shape. The parts other than the vocals are arranged in a slightly unique arrangement of piano (Toyama Akiko), violin (Abe Mio), cello (Hirayama Orie), and percussion (Akiba Masaki), creating a musical expanse like an orchestra.Nakamizo's clear and warm singing voice resonates straight over the sound.The songs featured in this album are all musical numbers, but with the intention of making these songs new jazz standards, jazz elements are sprinkled throughout the album.The lineup can be enjoyed from every angle, such as the individual players' personalities and abilities, the appeal of the songs, and the ingenious arrangements, such as Tea For Two (#1), with it's jazzy arrangement that uses strings as a Big Band horn section, Memory, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (#4,10), which is the face of this album, with it's innovative chord changes and arrangements but which sound natural thanks to Nakamizo's singing voice, I Feel Pretty (#5), which swings at a fast tempo, City Of Stars (#3), which deliberately replaces the swing rhythm of the original song with a tango, Nature Boy (#9), which is a simple and beautiful world of only piano and vocals, and Pure Imagination (#11), in which the vocals play a beautiful harmony with the violin and cello as one instrument, making this an unprecedented musical jazz album.MUSICIANSHiromi Nakamizo / VocalsAkiko Toyama / PianoMio Abe / violinOrie Hirayama / celloMasaki Akiba / PercussionSonglist1. Tea for two - No No Nanette2. Edelweiss - The Sound of Music3. City of Stars - La La Land4. Memory -Cats5. I Feel Pretty -West Side Story6. So in Love -Kiss Me Kate7. Dreams Broken -Les Miserables8. Dance the Night Away -My Fair Lady9. Nature Boy -Moulin Rouge!10. Supercalifragisticexpialidocious -Mary Poppins11. Pure Imagination -Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
