Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland - Mechanics Hall, Worchester, MA, 4-10-2005

I recently posted an album from the start of Linda Ronstadt's music career. Here's one from near the end of her career. This is an unreleased concert of her singing jazz standards, backed only by the piano playing of Marian McPartland.

Marian McPartland was a jazz pianist for a long, long time. At the time of this concert, she was almost ninety years old! She died in 2013, at the age of 95. From 1978 to 2011, she hosted a music show on NPR radio called "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz." This is from an episode of that show. It was recorded in 2013, but for some reason it wasn't broadcast until years later. (I also posted a concert of Norah Jones on McPartland's show, which you can do a search here for.) 

In late 2004, Linda Ronstadt released a studio album of jazz standards called "Hummin' to Myself." It was similar in style to the three albums she made with Nelson Riddle in the 1980s, and she said many of the songs were ones she never got around to doing back in those years. Ronstadt's voice was still in fine form for the album and this concert. But as it turns out, that wouldn't be the case for long. The last album she did was in 2006, the last time she sang on stage was in 2009, and her last studio recording is from about 2010. She gradually lost the ability to sing, due to a degenerative condition called "progressive supranuclear palsy." 

This concert had a lot of discussion between Ronstadt and McPartland between songs. In fact, it was too much talking for my tastes. So I cut out a lot of it. Much of it was easy to cut, parts that consisted of McPartland identifying the name of her radio show and talking about NPR. But also, there were many minutes in which the entire life story of Ronstadt was discussed in detail, amongst other things. I wanted to keep the focus on the songs that were being played. So I kept the talking that was relevant to that, and got rid of everything else. If you want to hear the whole thing, there are other versions of this bootleg that can be easily found.

I was surprised that only three songs performed were from the "Hummin' to Myself" album: "Tell Him I Said Hello," "I Fall in Love Too Easily," and "Miss Otis Regrets." Most or all of the other songs are from the three albums she did with Nelson Riddle in the 1980s, mentioned above. There also is an instrumental near the end composed by McParland that doesn't involve Ronstadt.

This album is 45 minutes long. 

01 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
02 Tell Him I Said Hello (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
03 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
04 I Fall in Love Too Easily (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
05 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
06 Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
07 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
08 Someone to Watch Over Me (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
09 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
10 Get Out of Town (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
11 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
12 Lush Life (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
13 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
14 What'll I Do (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
15 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
16 Miss Otis Regrets (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
17 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
18 Portrait of Linda Ronstadt [Instrumental] (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
19 talk (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland)
20 I'll Be Seeing You (Linda Ronstadt with Marian McPartland) 

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The cover photo is from the Bridge School Benefit concert at Shoreline Amphitheater, in Mountain View, California, on October 29, 2005.