Randy Weston - Marrakech In The Cool Of The Evening

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1994
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:44
Size: 160,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:42)  1. In The Cool Of The Evening
(4:37)  2. Portrait of Billie Holiday
(5:36)  3. Two Different Ways to Play the Blues
(7:32)  4. Portrait of Dizzy: A Night in Tunisia...
(3:22)  5. Lisa Lovely
(4:25)  6. Uli Shrine
(3:51)  7. Blues for Elma Lewis
(4:51)  8. Ballad for T
(4:04)  9. Valse Triste Valse
(6:28) 10. Where?
(3:37) 11. Let's Climb a Hill
(5:12) 12. The Jitterbug Waltz
(6:06) 13. Blues for Five Reasons
(6:14) 14. Lotus Blossom

Over the course of his career, Randy Weston has occasionally revisited the solo piano context. Here, opening with Nat "King" Cole's "In the Cool of the Evening," Weston thoughtfully mixes his own compositions with telling covers (Billy Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, and Fats Waller). Alone at a piano, it's evident how expansive and orchestrally-oriented Weston's musical thinking is; he utilizes beautiful density and open atmospherics with equal aplomb, and all with gorgeous melodicism. The album was digitally recorded live to 2-track in the ballroom of the La Mamounia Hotel in Marrakech, Morocco, a perfect setting for Weston, preserving both the cool and broad sound of the large room and the warmth of his piano playing. http://www.allmusic.com/album/marrakech-in-the-cool-of-the-evening-mw0000644281

Personnel: Randy Weston (piano).

Marrakech In The Cool Of The Evening

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