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Bob Acri: The Cavalcade of Music Foundation Presents Bob Acri
by Michael P. Gladstone
Chicago-based pianist Bob Acri has impressive musical credentials that include seventeen years as staff pianist for the NBC/ABC Radio Orchestra, touring with Harry James, and being the house pianist at Mr. Kelly's jazz club in Chicago. This is only Acri's second album. His debut, Timeless (Southport, 2002), featured the same originals that are performed here in a quartet setting. Bob Acri has founded The Cavalcade of Music Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization, which will receive all proceeds from the sale ...
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by Ken Hohman
Timeless is certainly an apt title for this rare release from Chicago-based pianist Bob Acri. The 83-years young Acri is a journeyman in the truest sense, having spent decades as “the man at the piano" for television networks, radio stations, recording sessions and nightclubs across the country (he was the staff pianist with the ABC/NBC network orchestra at the age of 17). Over the years he has played with luminaries like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat “King" Cole, Lester Young, Barbara Streisand ...
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