Description
DESCRIPTION
This compilation accurately documents the manner in which Don Shirley created his own genre: jazz tinged but not really jazz, soulful, but not really soul, often reaching out into areas that were distinctively classical. Check Irving Berlin's Blue Skies, which Shirley endows with a breath of Bach; In A Moorish Marketplace with it's hint of Ravel, or the simple beauty of One For My Baby (And One For The Road), on which Shirley opts for the most economical of approaches yet provides a performance of sheer beauty, one that never wavers far from the blues. 180gm 2LP vinyl
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Water Boy
2 Drown in My Own Tears
3 The Lonesome Road
4 Body and Soul
5 Blue Skies
6 Easy Living
7 In a Moorish Marketplace
8 Amen
9 Someone to Watch Over Me
10 Willow Weep for Me
11 Stand By Me
12 Happy Talk
13 Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
14 Lullaby of Birdland
15 Where's My Bess
16 This Nearly Was Mine
17 These Foolish Things
18 Let's Fall in Love
- Disc 2 -
1 I Got Rhythm
2 Freedom
3 My Funny Valentine
4 Adieu Madraz
5 Tribute to Billie Holiday
6 One for My Baby (And One for the Road)
