Bob Brookmeyer - Holiday: Bob Brookmeyer Plays Piano (2001)

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Artist: Bob Brookmeyer
Title: Holiday: Bob Brookmeyer Plays Piano
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Challenge Records [CHR 70103]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 73:43
Total Size: 466 MB(+3%) | 174 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. The Man I Love
02. Summer Song
03. It Could Happen to You
04. Holiday
05. I Thought About You
06. I Should Care
07. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
08. Pastoral
09. Jan Likes
10. Stupid Song
11. Child Song
12. It Might as Well Be Spring

Bob Brookmeyer - Holiday: Bob Brookmeyer Plays Piano (2001)

personnel :

Bob Brookmeyer - piano
Mads Vinding - bass
Alex Riel - drums

Although Bob Brookmeyer played piano in addition to his regular instrument, valve trombone, while he was working with Jimmy Giuffre and in both the small and big bands led by Gerry Mulligan, as well as on other sessions, this is his first exclusive outing on the instrument since the recording of "The Ivory Hunters," his famous duo piano date with Bill Evans, some 40-plus years later. Producer Peter Larsen overcame Brookmeyer's numerous objections that he wasn't up to the task; the results are more than satisfying. With bassist Mads Vinding and drummer Alex Riel, he develops interesting approaches to half a dozen time-tested standards. "The Man I Love" is economical and occasionally dissonant, while his reworking of "I Thought About You" has a well-disguised introduction and later a Latin flavor as the rhythm section joins him. "I Should Care" is transformed into a troubled, somewhat darker setting, but he follows it up with a joyful, foot-tapping "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" that surely reflects the song's title; it comes out sounding like an original by Brookmeyer. As one of the top (and most under-appreciated) arrangers and appreciated composers at the dawn of the 21st century, Brookmeyer's originals stand up very well to close scrutiny. "Summer Song" is his brisk reworking of George Gershwin's well-known "Summertime." The pretty ballad "Pastoral" contrasts with his playful (and at first, deceptively simple) "Stupid Song," which builds from an initially repetitious two-note theme. Brookmeyer would never claim that he has the greatest chops on piano, but the way in which he makes use of his talent on the keyboard is of far more interest than the CDs by up-and-coming full-time pianists with great technique but little knowledge of what to do with it.~ Ken Dryden

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