A poem by Fran Landesman about Sarah singing her lyrics
In the 1950s Fran Landesman wrote hip, insightful lyrics that were recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett and Miles Davis. In 1994 she met Simon Wallace and embarked on ‘an enduring creative relationship that produced some of her finest work’ (The Guardian), writing over 300 songs together.
Sarah has so far introduced 45 of their acclaimed songs over 5 highly regarded albums and has been acknowledged as the foremost interpreter of this extraordinary body of work. Sarah and Simon present a set of the finest Landesman/Wallace songs which express the joys and woes of modern living and share their musical memories of an extraordinary and vibrant character who was ‘one of the last links to the Golden Age of American songwriting’ (Russell Davis BBC Radio 2).