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Dottie Grossman & Michael Vlatkovich: Call And Response
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Halloween pumpkins. Skyscrapers and nearby canyons. Christmas Eve. Disneyland. Tarzan. Van Gogh. Texas, Nebraska, Mexico, Albuquerque, the Rio Grande. Pet cats. Huevos rancheros. These themes carry a close relationship to our daily lives. Let's talk about whatever is on our minds. Grossman makes herself right at home. She gives us plenty to think about, and the lyrics are all printed in the accompanying liner notes.
Vlatkovich communicates spontaneously with his performing partner. When she reads about hearing "Johnny Mercer on the radio," he responds with a quote of "You Made Me Love You." When she tells about her dreams involving Cary Grant, he replies with a mellow Glenn Miller salute. The dry humor of Henny Youngman is followed with the trombonist's quiet laughing. Through his horn, he's able to communicate every emotion.
Grossman and Vlatkovich give us a free jazz session that inspires us and fires our imaginations. Our daily lives are filled with poetry in motion. We take it for granted. Recommended, Call And Response applies what's on our minds to an outward form of communication that includes soulful improvisation.
Track Listing
If We Lived on a Mountaintop; The Lady from Calcutta; What If Another Caveman; The Poem is Part Cartoon; I'm Grown Up Now; The Hum of a Place; In a Sleep in the Dream in Recurring Cary Grant; Today I Bought; In the Canyons Below; In the Evening; There Has Been; Three Henny Youngman Poems; Dear Terre Haute; We Waited the Storm Out; On a Navy-Blue Night; Two About Movie Stars; The Man Who is More Like the Murderer on His Way; Ten P.M.; Six Short Cat Poems; The Man Who Loves His Job Makes a Poem; You Make Me Laugh Easily; Three Henny Youngman Poems; Two Appropriations; My Hairdresser Tells Me; Daughter; In My Pre-Adolescent; Once Upon a Time; Two Short Ones; Three Short Ones; The Weekend Begins; Two in a Row; Two About Geography; Two More in a Row; Two That Seem to Go Together;
Personnel
Dottie Grossman- voice; Michael Vlatkovich- trombone.
Album information
Title: Call And Response | Year Released: 2004 | Record Label: Unknown label
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