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John Pizzarelli: Knowing You

Read "Knowing You" reviewed by Jim Santella


John Pizzarelli's “Knowing You" flows with a laid back demeanor as organ, piano, bass, and drums surround the singer/guitarist with cool sensations. His velvety voice brings the title track's hip lyrics to life and sets your mind at ease. Listening to Pizzarelli sing this collection of standards and popular songs can turn your day into a ...

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John Pizzarelli: Knowing You

Read "Knowing You" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


When recording fresh interpretations of classic songs, artists do best when they go beyond simply singing or playing them the way they were written. To make it worth doing, the modern artist must make the music his own. John Pizzarelli is exceptionally adept in accomplishing this. This fact is evident on the opening track of his ...

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John Pizzarelli: Knowing You

Read "Knowing You" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Vocalists John Pizzarelli and Harry Connick, Jr. have a few things in common. They are both young and attractive, hyper-talented men with loads of respect for the Great American Songbook. But that is where the comparison essentially ends. Connick, a pianist, concentrates primarily on the “standard" standards and his own compositions. Pizzarelli, a guitarist, concentrates on ...

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Bossa Nova

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. One Note Samba 2. Fascinatin' Rhythm 3. The Girl From Ipanema 4. Your Smiling Face 5. Estate 6. Desafinado 7. Aquelas Coisas Todas 8. I Remember 9. Francesca 10. Love Dance 11. So Dan

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John Pizzarelli: Bossa Nova

Read "Bossa Nova" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


Warm and gentle, John Pizzarelli’s latest release, Bossa Nova , takes you on an affectionate, musically articulate, and eventually exasperatingly quaint tour of bossa nova’s Brazilian heritage. Not surprisingly, Bossa Nova features several Antonio Carlos Jobim compositions, including a gracefully mature rendition of “The Girl From Ipanema,” the cleverly arranged “So Danço Samba,” ...

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Live at Birdland

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Disc 1: Introduction; Just You, Just Me; The Frim Fram Sauce; The Song is You; Isn't It a Pity?; Rhode Island; Gospel Truth; Tea for Tatum; Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight; Mean Old Man; Manhattan; Moonlight Becomes You; Will You Still Be Mine.
Disc 2: Introduction; Three Little Words; They Can't Take That Away From Me; Oh, How My Heart Beats for You; The Day I Found You; It's Only A Paper Moon; Stompin' At The Savoy; Better Run Before It's Spring; Headed Out For Vera's; Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You/Baby Baby All The Time/ Midnight Blue; I Like Jersey Best; My Castle's Rockin'; Baby Just Come Home to Me.

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John Pizzarelli Trio: Live at Birdland

Read "Live at Birdland" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Live at Birdland is two hours, twelve minutes, and sixteen seconds the finest of the American Musical Art form. The John Pizzarelli Trio celebrated its tenth anniversary at New York City's Birdland club this past year and Telarc was there to capture the festivities. How fortunate we are. Forty-three-year-old John Pizzarelli is jazz royalty. ...

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The Rare Delight of You

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. If Dreams Come True 2. The Lady's In Love With You 3. Everything Happens To Me 4. Lulu's Back In Town 5. Something To Remember You By 6. Lemon Twist 7. Lost April 8. Problem 9. The Rare Delight Of You 10. Shine On Your Shoes 11. Indian Summer 12. Be Careful It's My Heart 13. September In The Rain 14. I Predict (2001) 15. Lucky To Be Me

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Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey

Read "Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...

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John Pizzarelli and The George Shearing Quintet: The Rare Delight of You

Read "The Rare Delight of You" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Urbane and Gentlemanly Guitar and Piano... Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue... It is this romance that populates the Telarc Jazz collaboration between master of the popular song John Pizzarelli and jazz deity George Shearing. John Pizzarelli's guitar is a perfect fit for what has become known as the “Shearing Sound." His singing will, ...


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