Time: 70:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Mainstream Jazz
Art: Front
01. Moon Country (6:37)
02. In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening (5:17)
03. I Get Along Without You Very Well (3:21)
04. New Orleans (7:17)
05. The Nearness Of You (5:49)
06. I Walk With Music (5:22)
07. Two Sleepy People (3:55)
08. Rockin' Chair (6:36)
09. One Morning In May (5:53)
10. Georgia On My Mind (6:37)
11. April In My Heart (6:32)
12. Jubilee (4:24)
13. Skylark (2:47)
What does Hoagy Carmichael’s music sound like in your mind? I think of leaves rustling and water flowing over small stones; I think of a musical playfulness allied with deep feelings, sadness and joy. His music has been given life on a million pianos and by tens of millions of singers and instrumentalists — but it is sublimely expressed on a new CD by the trio of Harry Allen, tenor saxophone; Rossano Sportiello, piano; Joel Forbes, string bass.
I WALK WITH MUSIC: THE HOAGY CARMICHAEL SONGBOOK is both familiar and fresh, both embracing and sweetly surprising. Harry, Rossano, and Joel are masters of small-group playing: each of them is a superb soloist, able to entrance us all by himself. But they excel at swing synergy, so that this trio is much more than the three soloists assembled in a room. Their deep empathy for Hoagy’s melodies comes through: they do not use the chord changes as a reason to convert the composer’s deep melodic lines into a series of ninths and thirteenths. Indeed, this CD is a master class in singing through instruments.
I WALK WITH MUSIC: THE HOAGY CARMICHAEL SONGBOOK is both familiar and fresh, both embracing and sweetly surprising. Harry, Rossano, and Joel are masters of small-group playing: each of them is a superb soloist, able to entrance us all by himself. But they excel at swing synergy, so that this trio is much more than the three soloists assembled in a room. Their deep empathy for Hoagy’s melodies comes through: they do not use the chord changes as a reason to convert the composer’s deep melodic lines into a series of ninths and thirteenths. Indeed, this CD is a master class in singing through instruments.
I Walk With The Music
This is what good listening is all about, Three exellent musicians playing the music of Hoagy Carmichael, what more could anyone want! Thank you Mai Neime.
ReplyDeleteAn absolute gem. A brilliant composer, brilliant selection of tunes and three brilliant musicians. Thanks Mai Neime.
ReplyDeletePlease re-up this one thanks.
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