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Chet Baker: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album
by Maurizio Zerbo
Ascoltare questa registrazione del 1972, rimasta ad oggi inedita, è un'esperienza che regala al pubblico profonde emozioni. Lo si può considerare un capitolo non marginale dell'avventura musicale di Chet Baker, qui all'opera con l'amico Jack Sheldon per sublimare le più affascinanti caratteristiche della West Coast Jazz. È una performance di chiara identità interpretativa, un concentrato di lucidità creativa nell'interpretare con ariosa levità alcuni dei più amati standard del suo repertorio discografico. La scelta di questi brani esalta oltretutto ...
Continue ReadingChet Baker & Jack Sheldon: In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album
by Pierre Giroux
In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album presents an intriguing collaboration between trumpeters Chet Baker and Jack Sheldon. Derived from a newly unearthed studio session from 1972 and released on the Jazz Detective label, it was co-produced by Zev Feldman and film producer Frank Marshall. Backed by a stellar ensemble featuring Jack Marshall (guitar), Dave Frishberg (piano), Joe Mondragon (bass) and Nick Ceroli (drums), the sextet swings through a repertoire drawn mostly from the Great American Songbook, supplemented by one original ...
Continue ReadingDisinformation Week
by H William Stine
Disinformation. It's a word we're hearing frequently these days. Some people call Disinformation propaganda; some people with a straight face call it alternative facts. I call it pernicious lies. So I spent two hours defining and explicating Disinformation; and, most importantly, telling people how to protect themselves from it. JUST KIDDING! You know me. Instead, I spent the two hours exploiting this sensitive issue and squeezing every last drop of irony and rueful laughter from it with songs I claimed ...
Continue ReadingDave Frishberg: By Himself
by Jack Bowers
Somewhat like Nat King Cole, whose “unforgettable” vocal stylings made him wealthy and famous but changed him from a Jazz pianist to a popular entertainer, Dave Frishberg’s virtuosity as a pianist has been overshadowed by other concerns, namely his well–known talents as a singer / songwriter whose hip lyrics always leave one smiling knowingly and nodding his / her head in appreciation. So a couple of decades have passed since Frishberg, once best known as the house pianist at New ...
Continue ReadingAl Cohn & Zoot Sims: Easy As Pie
by AAJ Staff
Once again, Label M mines the vast resources of jazz performances that Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society sagaciously recorded, knowing that they were hearing unparalleled music in their midst but not knowing that it would entertain jazz listeners thirty-plus years hence. It seems that the Left Bank group was at its best when it recorded horns, and particularly saxophonists. Even on Easy As Pie, Dave Frishberg's piano lacks clarity due to the on-site instrument's limitations. Unfortunately, the same problem occurred ...
Continue ReadingDave Frishberg: You're a Lucky Guy
by Dave Nathan
P>Along with Bob Dorough and Mose Allison, Dave Frishberg remains one of the ageless hipsters of jazz. On this 1978 recording, reissued in 1999, Frishberg joins with four other jazz veterans for an upbeat but stingy 37 minutes of music. Frishberg sings on just a couple of tunes and only two of his many compositions are here, so the album focuses on him as an instrumentalist. He can be called a nonchalant pianist, tuneful and melodic without being pretentious and ...
Continue ReadingDave Frishberg: You're A Lucky Guy
by Jim Santella
Dave Frishberg’s highly rated 1978 album swings, with his vocals taking a back seat to Frishberg’s lively piano work. The first time on CD, this session features four quintet tracks, two duets with saxophonist Al Cohn and three solo piano pieces. Frishberg sings “Truckin’," “You’re a Lucky Guy" and “The Underdog." With tremolos and crisp, staccato walking bass lines, Frishberg derives his piano style from ragtime and melds it with bebop. Frishberg attended the University of Minnesota and worked in ...
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