Attractions by Cynthia Sayer '77 with Bucky Pizzarelli

Cynthia Sayer ’77 with Bucky Pizzarelli, Attractions (Plunk Records, 2007)

This is Sayer’s eighth CD as a headliner; she has performed on numerous others. When this banjo player says she loves many different styles, she is not kidding: Attractions features 13 pieces from composers as varied as Franz Liszt, Django Reinhardt, Irving Berlin, and Hank Williams, as well as one Sayer original. Sayer plays banjo, sings, and arranged; she is joined by the legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, with whom she has collaborated before. Strings, horns, and percussion round out the sound. (See story.)