Marian McPartland - Contrasts (2003)

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Title: Contrasts
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: The Jazz Alliance [TJA2-12044-2]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:45:30
Total Size: 637 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

CD1 - Plays the Music of Alec Wilder (1992)

01. Jazz Waltz for a Friend (Wilder) - 3:32
02. Why? (Wilder) - 5:03
03. While We're Young (Wilder) - 4:30
04. Lullaby for a Lady (Wilder) - 2:08
05. Inner Circle (Wilder) - 4:50
06. I'll Be Around (Wilder) - 3:29
07. Trouble Is a Man (Wilder) - 3:15
08. Homework (Wilder) - 3:38
09. Where Are the Good Companions? (Wilder) - 4:10
10. It's So Peaceful in the Country (Wilder) - 3:51

CD2 - A Sentimental Journey (1994)

01. Royal Garden Blues (Williams-Williams) - 4:45
02. Sentimental Journey (Green-Brown-Homer) - 7:39
03. Blue Prelude (Jenkins-Bishop) - 5:59
04. Dinah (Akst-Lewis-Young) - 3:46
05. Basin Street Blues (Williams) - 7:54
06. When You Wish Upon a Star (Harline-Washington) - 4:14
07. Avalon (Jolson-Rose-DeSylva) - 5:26
08. Perdido (Tizol-Lengsfelder-Drake) - 7:03
09. Willow Weep for Me (Ronell) - 5:24
10. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Young-Ahlert) - 4:43
11. Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Burke-Van Heusen) - 6:03
12. Wolverine Blues (Morton-Spikes-Spikes) - 4:08

Contrasts is a two-fer collection of work by pianist Marian McPartland featuring the albums Plays the Music of Alec Wilder and Marian and Jimmy McPartland: A Sentimental Journey. Showcasing the exquisite playing of the NPR jazz host, both albums are worth checking out. Disc one should appeal to longtime McPartland fans with the pianist working through the compositions of Alec Wilder in a straight-ahead trio style. Disc two, though, is the real revelation, with McPartland joining her cornetist/vocalist husband, Jimmy, and his New Orleans trad-style band for a live date. The music is much hotter than McPartland's solo work -- she "comps" beautifully behind soloists -- and it's a treat to hear her in this more bluesy, extroverted context.~Scott Yanow