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Fran Landesman is still the poet laureate of lovers and losers:
her songs are the secret diaries of the desperate and the
decadent. No one can convey the bitter-sweet joys of melancholy
or the exhilaration of living on the edge like Fran.
The
jazz world's answer to Dorothy Parker, New York born lyricist
Fran Landesman's acid wit and penetrating insights first emerged
in her 1950s collaborations with composer Tommy
Wolf. Songs such as “Spring
Can Hang You Up The Most” and “The
Ballad Of The Sad Young Men” were picked up
by Jackie and Roy and soon became
standards boasting recordings by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald,
Barbra Streisand and Sarah Vaughn. Nearly half a century later
Fran's lyrics are sharper and more perceptive than ever. She
now lives in London and for the past 9 years has been writing
superbly crafted songs with the eclectic, Welsh born, world
travelled composer Simon Wallace.
Music and lyrics work together to create a tough, witty, ironic
expression of contemporary love and life in songs that caress
the heart and remain in the head long after the music is over.
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