Kitten on the Keys, Music, Various Artists, Classical, Classical Music, Classical Pop, Instrumental, V/a Compilations
(DOR-93201) features the New Columbian Brass Band under George Foreman playing 15 pieces written from 1900 to 1921 and inspired by animals.
So we have "The Teddy Bears Picnic," "A Morning in Noah's Ark," "The Two Little Bullfinches," "Turkey in the Straw," and even "Tiger Rag." The Noah's Ark number is replete with animal sounds by a guest expert and links up with an earlier Dorian release called "A Trip to Coney Island: Descriptive Overtures from America's Golden Age" (DOR-80153), which introduced me to a form of musical tone poem very popular around the turn of the century.
This is one of those rare recordings that will appeal to all age levels; and scholars will be delighted to note that "Turkey in the Straw" is actually a Humoresque for Clarinet. Also anyone who has ever seen barnyard chickens in any old Warner Brothers cartoon will have already heard "Chicken Reel." A very definite 5 star Grabbit.
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- Oh, Kitten...it's a Must Have
- Almost , Nearly, perfect
- Much more than Kitten On the Keys
- Zany yet poetic!
- Brilliant!
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Confrey: Piano Music
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ASIN: B00000HZOE
Release Date: 1999-01-19 |
Tracks:
- Kitten On The Keys
- Dizzy Fingers
- Meandering
- African Suite: I. High Hattin'
- African Suite: II. Kinda Careless
- African Suite: III. Mississippi Shivers
- Jay Walk
- Sparkling Waters
- Wise Cracker Suite: I. Yokel Opus
- Wise Cracker Suite: II. Mighty Lackawanna
- Wise Cracker Suite: III. The Sheriff's Lament
- Amazonia
- Blue Tornado
- Three Little Oddities: I. Impromptu
- Three Little Oddities: II. Romanza
- Three Little Oddities: III. Novelette
- Coaxing The Piano
- Stumbling (Paraphrase)
- Moods Of A New Yorker: I. At Dusk
- Moods Of A New Yorker: II. Movie Ballet
- Moods Of A New Yorker: III. Relaxation
- Moods Of A New Yorker: IV. After Theatre (Tango)
- Rhythm Venture
- Fourth Dimension
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Zez Confrey (1895-1971) may not be a household name, but his 1921 masterpiece "Kitten on the Keys" certainly is. The Illinois-born composer studied the classics growing up, but somehow the temptation of Vaudeville sneaked its way into his compositions and he found success writing catchy ragtime miniatures with goofy names ("Wise Cracker Suite," "Dizzy Fingers," "Blue Tornado"). Republic of Georgia pianist Eteri Andjaparidze performs 24 of Confrey's works with technical perfection and plenty of spirit--two requirements for these compositions--but sounds a tad robotic on some numbers. Between "Kitten" and 1959's "Fourth Dimension," Confrey explored blues, rags, Latin rhythms, and--of course--jazz, but the real highlight here is a slow number, the four-movement Moods of a New Yorker. In sum, this a great tribute featuring great music, perfect for fans of George Gershwin, Ferde Grofé, Jelly Roll Morton, and Joseph Lamb. --Jason Verlinde
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Oh, Kitten...it's a Must Have.......2004-12-29
Hats off to Naxos for releasing this absolutely perfect tribute to Zez Confrey - it was high time, someone had to do it, and Naxos has done Confrey real justice. One would expect caricature of his work, rather than the respectful, honest, accurate renditions of his work featured on this album.
I discovered my love for Confrey thanks to the Aeolian Hall Birth of Rhapsody in Blue album (another of my reviews covers that great one), which featured a small selection of his compositions. The distinct, unique sound of his work snagged me immediately, and so I was thrilled to come upon this little Naxos treat.
Every piece on the album is sheer delight, but several do stand out from the rest. "Kitten on the Keys" (Confrey's most famous composition, here done full justice), "Meandering" (which just glides and lilts along like feathers on a breeze), "Kinda Careless" (a sensuous, seductive little number), "Yokel Opus" (a snappy little foxtrot), "Coaxing the Piano" (which seems almost an homage to 'Twelfth Street Rag', in a skewed way), "Movie Ballet" (which sounds exactly like its title would suggest), and "Rhythm Venture" (so gracefully syncopated, it's practically a marvel).
Any and all Confrey and jazz fans should consider this album as required listening, and well worth owning. The price alone is reason enough - you cannot go wrong with Naxos' rates. But even if it were four times the price, it would still be a bargain.
Almost , Nearly, perfect.......2003-10-25
Wonderful selection of pieces, most of these are lesser-known Confrey and tend to represent his more "Serious" music. Perhaps because of that the pianist (a superb performer) tends to emphasize their concert qualities over their popular music aspects. This is only a tiny complaint. There's a lot of excellect music here, and at Naxos' low price it's a bargan.
Much more than Kitten On the Keys.......2002-05-16
If you thought an album of Zez Confrey music would be track after track like Dizzy Fingers or Kitten On the Keys, you are in a for a pleasant surprise with this superb CD.
The performances of the said party pieces are fast, furious and fun, but there are also some great blues renditions, and some lyrical, reflective pieces.
I would have preferred if the CD had included a few more of the well-known pieces like My Pet, Poor Buttermilk and You Tell 'Em, Ivories, but the many pieces I had never heard of are interesting, and are played beautifully.
Zany yet poetic!.......2000-09-04
Once again, in its "American Classics" series, Naxos has pulled a pleasant surprise rabbit out of the hat. Zez Confrey must be a new name for virtually everyone, unless they are well past my own age, and I don't go back quite that far. The name was certainly new for me, but a few of the pieces on this disc brought memories flooding back, most likely because my parents once had them coupled on an ancient 78 shellac.
Confrey (1895 - 1971) had been relegated pretty much to the dustbin of history before this release. But he did have his days in the sun between the two world wars. Undoubtedly his brightest moment was when he shared billing with George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman on the occasion of the premiere for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, where Confrey had the stage in the first half of the concert and Gershwin in the second. For the most part, after that February, 1924 "An Experiment in Modern Music" concert of Whiteman's, the paths of Gershwin and Confrey began to diverge; Gershwin was, to put it simply, an overnight success.
All of the music on this album is fun, and virtually all of it demands virtuosic pianistic ability, which Confrey must certainly have possessed. Listening to it is like taking a trip down memory lane, back to the popular music in the first third of the previous century. There are pieces which have clear roots in ragtime, embellished upon and brought forward by a few decades, and at least a selection or two which sound very much like Gershwin preludes in their "bluesy" feel. It's also clear that Confrey was not unaware of the classical music of the period, because a few of the pieces capture the idioms of the piano music of Rachmaninoff and Ravel of that period (although they soon veer off into "Confrey territory"). If you listen carefully, you'll even hear a passing reference or two to Chopin. But, like the Rachmaninoff and Ravel musical allusions, these too are in fact just "passing references."
But most of the album is pure Confrey-style pianistic wizardry: Fleet fingers, crossing hands, syncopations and rhythmic "irregularities" with the colorfully descriptive titles of "Meandering", "Coaxing the Piano" and "Stumbling." And his two most famous pieces (which, probably, many of us have never heard), "Kitten on the Keys" and "Dizzy Fingers." (In fact, it was "Dizzy Fingers" and "Stumbling" which must have been the coupling on that ancient 78, because they were immediately recognizable.)
Eteri Andjaparidze is an excellent technician in this work, which can be very demanding of technique if it is to be pulled off properly. By and large, she does very well by it. In particular, she succeeds in capturing the passing allusions to the classical piano music of the time. If I had my druthers, I might ask for a little more panache, or insouciance, if you like, in the Confrey specialities noted in the previous paragraph. But who can quibble, especially at the Naxos price, without appearing to be a piker?
Neat stuff for a refreshing change of pace, with an opportunity to hear an hour's worth of music by someone who had been ignored for too long. That's a "get it" recommendation!
Bob Zeidler
Brilliant!.......2000-03-22
I have no idea what Jason Verlinde meant by saying that Eteri Andjaparidze sounds "a tad robotic" on certain pieces on her new Zez Confrey album; indeed, the Republic of Georgia pianist sounds absolutely marvelously free in her interpretations. I cannot hear anything "robotic" at all in her playing. She approaches the intricate syncopations of Confrey's music with dazzling style. She is technically proficient enough to take Confrey's tempi at a furious pace, when necessary, in pieces such as "Kitten on the Keys" and "Dizzy Fingers," and to create a sustained, beautiful flow to the music in such "impressionistic" pieces as "Sparkling Waters" and "Mighty Lackawana." The selections which will remind the listener of Art Deco New York in the 1920's and 1930's, are taken at exactly the right tempo, and Ms. Andjaparidze syncopates the rhythms in a sparkling manner. I was utterly amazed at how a pianist, trained in the Republic of Georgia, could evoke the rhythms and style of American music of this type. But she does! In addition, the piano has been recorded beautifully, with sparkling tone at the treble end, and a rich, full bass. I purchased this CD a few hours after reading Frank Behrens' review. It is a wonderful addition to my collection of American music. I urge you to hear this excellent release. Naxos is to be commended for making it available.
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World's Greatest Piano Rags
Eubie Blake , William Bolcom , Zez Confrey , George Gershwin , Robert Hampton , Scott Joplin , Joseph Lamb , Artie Matthews , Joseph C. Northrup , Jay Roberts , James Scott , Richard Dowling , and Bruce Leek
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Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Cannon Ball
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- American Beauty Rag
- Hilarity Rag
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- Ragtime Nightingale
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- Merry Andrew
- Dizzy Fingers
- Kitten on the Keys
- Brittwood Rag
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wonderful collection.......2005-08-24
This is a great collection of rags of various styles. The Graceful Ghost is just a wonderful flowing rag bordering on classical, and at the other end is the very fun Entertainer's Rag. Richard Bowling plays them all well. The three Zez Confrey cuts are not to my liking so much, but the rest is a set of play over and over things.
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Old Rags New Rags
Mimi Blais
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Release Date: 2005-05-10 |
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Sophisticated Innocence: American Novelty Piano Solos
Lincoln Mayorga
Manufacturer: Town Hall Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0000049SM
Release Date: 1995-12-13 |
Tracks:
- Kitten On The Keys
- In A Mist
- Flapperette
- The Moth
- Canadian Capers
- Nola
- Slipova
- Manhatten Serenade
- Waltz In Ragtime
- Sapphire
- Doll Dance
- Dizzy Fingers
- The Banjo
Album Description
The vitality and playfulness of the jazz era is captured in this collection of novelty piano solos composed by colleagues of George Gershwin. Pianist Lincoln Mayorga's light-spirited and virtuosic playing brings life to this rarely recognized American genre of music. Included on the Compact Disc is a nineteenth century precursor of the novelty piano solo, Louis Moreau Gottschalk's "The Banjo".
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Thrilling!.......1999-11-21
I have this CD on order and have listened to the samples. However, I already know that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT. My family and I have been searching for decades for "Flapperette" and have asked many musicians and music companies about it, and no one seemed to know it or of it. I was even beginning to think that my Mother had possibly composed it as our search was absolutely fruitless for so long. My Mother who was a genius of a pianist played it, and she used it in fact for one of my dance numbers when I was only a tot. I can well remember for at a recital once I performed in a toy soldier number with a large group of girls and then in a duet. At the end I had a solo number and it was to "Flapperette". I can still hear my Mother playing the quick introduction and my dancing out to the middle of the stage. Then I just FROZE when I noticed what a big auditorium I was in and saw all the people there watching. I hurriedly walked off stage and someone directed me on again with my Mother playing another fast version of the intro. Then again in the middle of the stage, I AGAIN FROZE! I remember all the people LAUGHING. I couldn't have been more than 3 or 4. I'm sure it was funny and cute but that was the end of my dancing career and in fact I've never been a whiz on the dance floor since that bout with stage fright. That was in the 30's when Mother worked for a dance studio in Washington, DC. She unfortunately passed away over 30 years ago now. Mother, Rena Cloud, was an absolute genius and played all types of music having been classically trained as a child but had an ear as well and could play anything she heard. She entertained troops in World War I at only 9 years old, playing piano and singing "St. Louis Blues" and others. Since she lived in Altus, Oklahoma, we're sure this took place at Ft. Sill, an old Army outpost (Lawton, OK) within spitting distance which is still now in operation. After getting past the introduction here of "Flapperette", which I never before heard, the arrangement here is EXACTLY the one she used to play. It is just beautiful and so totally unique. Kitten on the Keys and especially "Nola" were other favorites of Mother's and ours as well. From this I can determine tht she was only about 18 years old when "Flapperette" was written by Felix Arndt, the same gentleman who composed "Nola". These TWO are not only beautiful works but Arndt, the composer must have been an absolute genius! They are just CLASSICAL but can be adapted to Jazz. Between "Flapperette" and "Nola", apparently "Nola" was the most popular of the two.
I enjoyed as well the clips from the other numbers and cannot wait to receive my CD of this.
Excellent!!!.......1999-05-14
Well played. Clean sound. It's Classical meets Jazz in a novelty format. Liked "In a Mist" "Waltz in Ragtime" and "The Moth" best for their impressionistic, polyrhythmic playfulness. Program notes are cursory, but engaging (Read about how Lincoln acquired the sheet music to some these tunes--spooky!). If you like salon music (made popular by the recent TITANIC/White Star recordings)you will like "Sophisticated Innocence". "Kitten on the Keys" "Nola" "Dizzy Fingers"--what a collection of piano gems!!! And Mayorga makes it all sound easy and effortless. Some of these songs will never be featured again on any future CD. GET IT NOW, for no one knows how long this wonderful record will be available in the catalogue...
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- remarkable evocation of a bygone style
- Wodehouse the magnificent
- The Rolls Royce of Zez Confrey recordings.
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Zez Confrey Piano Rolls and Scores
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Release Date: 2003-04-01 |
Tracks:
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- The Red Lantern
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remarkable evocation of a bygone style.......2003-07-25
In some ways, Artis Wodehouse's Disklavier realization of Zez Confrey's lighter-than-air pianistic joyrides is an even more impressive accomplishment than her previous restorations of Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton piano rolls. Confrey's novelty style seems the truest musical embodiment of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is fascinating to hear the spirit of the 20s come to life in such a nerve titillating way. Especially remarkable are the selections hand played by Ms. Wodehouse into the Disklavier. Though they are designated on the jacket liner notes, by ear it is impossible to tell the difference-- a tribute to the complete success and seamless integrity of her stylistic resurrection.
Wodehouse the magnificent.......2003-04-25
I've heard Artis Wodehouse play in other venues and she is an artist of the most amazing versatility and profound knowledge, not to mention astounding energy. This CD is exciting to listen to, friends play in their workplaces to add zip to life there. It will bring you tremendous enjoyment.
The Rolls Royce of Zez Confrey recordings........2003-04-10
If you already know and enjoy Zez Confrey's music, this disc belongs in your collection. If Confrey is unknown to you, this disc still belongs in your collection, unless of course you find joyful, exuberant piano music to be repugnant.
For those new to Confrey, here's a brief description:
Edward Elzear Confrey (known to all as Zez) was a self-described composer of novelty piano music, his way of trying to describe music that was at once influenced by ragtime, early jazz, popular songs, and classical composers, particularly Debussy and MacDowell. His music rarely if ever aspires to emotional profundity, but its sheer joy, bounce, and tunefulness make it hard to put down once you've started, whether as listener or pianist. As an amateur pianist, I've been playing Zez Confrey's music for 20 years. The reactions I have gotten from people over the years have been consistently the same; "Wow! Who wrote that?", and "Are there recordings of this music I can buy?". Now, this disc gives me an easy answer to the second question.
This disc is Artis Wodehouse's fourth disc devoted to her amazing humanized piano rolls. The first two covered a good cross-section of George Gershwin's piano rolls, while a third was a collection of piano rolls by Jelly Roll Morton. This is easily her finest work since the first "Gershwin plays Gershwin" disc in 1993.
Zez Confrey, like his contemporaries George Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton, left behind a well-rounded collection of acoustic gramophone recordings as well as paper piano rolls. The least sophisticated of these paper rolls merely captured the notes that the pianist played and nothing more. Once the roll was published and sold, it was the job of the consumer, operating his or her own reproducing piano, to mechanically add pedaling, rubato, and dynamics as he or she saw fit. However, the most sophisticated reproducing rolls captured not only the notes but the pedaling, rubato, and dynamics used by the pianist, often with uncanny accuracy. All paper rolls allowed the pianist the option of post-production editing, e.g., removing wrong notes, and in popular music such as this, adding dazzling "third hand" counterpoint effects that made the end result unplayable by a human pianist. Confrey was one the best at this, and he uses this technique liberally throughout the rolls on this disc. (For those of you familiar with Confrey's "Kitten on the Keys" or "Dizzy Fingers" in their standard published versions, you're in for a treat once you hear Confrey's souped up three-handed versions presented here.) Still, even the best of these paper rolls played back on the best reproducing pianos could never be mistaken by an astute listener for a human being (two-handed or otherwise). There was always a discernible gap between playing produced in the human realm and that of the mechanical realm, that is until relatively recently. The explosion of digital technology has allowed such things as computerized reproducing pianos like the Yamaha Disklavier to become a readily available reality. Recordings made and played back on such pianos are virtually indistinguishable from live human performances. It wasn't long before people like Artis Wodehouse starting exploring ways to apply this technology to the old paper rolls, finally enabling listeners to experience what it might have been like to hear pianists like Gershwin, Morton, and Confrey recorded in the flesh, and in modern sound. By taking the information encoded on these old paper rolls and feeding it into a Yamaha Disklavier system, she has been able narrow the gap between human playing and mechanical playing to the point of near nonexistence. Through careful study of Confrey's actual playing from acoustic recordings, Wodehouse has softened the mechanical edges, painstakingly adding those qualities that distinguished Confrey's playing in the flesh, effectively making each roll indistinguishable from an actual human performance.
On the first Gershwin disc from 1993, several of the rolls she chose had been previously recorded in their original paper roll form. Having heard these original paper roll recordings, listening to Artis Wodehouse's humanized versions of these same rolls was like seeing an old film before and then after restoration. In short, it was a revelation.
This new Zez Confrey disc easily lives up to these high standards Wodehouse set for herself, indeed this disc may even set the bar higher. This time around, not only is Wodehouse working from two different types of paper rolls, she is actually playing some of the pieces herself, works that Confrey did not record, but that deserve a place on any disc of Confrey's music. The joyful bounce and rhythmic snap of her playing so perfectly matches Confrey's own playing that it becomes impossible to tell which tracks are hers and which are Confrey's. The result is an amazingly seamless and unified blend of musicianship, scholarship, technological know-how, with an astute understanding of the individual elements that made Confrey's playing unique. Whether as pianist or digital editor, with this CD, Wodehouse has done more for Confrey's music than has anyone before her. The results are well worth hearing.
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ASIN: B0009JMELK
Release Date: 2005-06-21 |
Customer Reviews:
A Great Intro to American Classical Music - Almost a Short Course!.......2005-07-12
Many reasonably sophisticated American and European musiclovers still think there are really no American classical music composers of note other than perhaps Gershwin and Copland. It is to the credit of the Naxos label, via their 'American Classics' series, that the lie is put to that notion. Each month there are new issues from Naxos containing music by American composers. And it was a brilliant idea for them to take selections from their dozens of releases of this music to put together this sampler of such music to illustrate a 100+ page essay on the subject by an eminent writer on music, Barrymore Laurence Scherer. The combination of 2 CDs of music tracks, Scherer's essay, a chronological outline, suggestions for further listening, even a map showing where various composers were born helps the 'student' learn much about our nation's musical heritage.
There are selections by twenty-eight composers stretching from the amazing Wagnerian 'Macbeth' Overture by William Henry Fry (1813-1864) to the very recent 'Rapture,' a percussion concerto by Michael Torke (b. 1961). Some selections are complete movements, others are shorter passages from larger works. Included are such gems as the first movement of Arthur Foote's Piano Quartet, the third movement of Henry Hadley's Fourth Symphony, Charles Ives's 'The Unanswered Question,' 'King Cotton' by John Philip Sousa, 'Maple Leaf Rag' by Scott Joplin, a passage (the exciting Spanish Waltz) from Walter Piston's 'The Incredible Flutist,' the finale of Copland's 'Billy the Kid,' the opening of Samuel Barber's luminous 'Knoxville - Summer of 1915,' 'Tonight' from Bernstein's 'West Side Story,' the opening of George Rochberg's masterful Violin Concerto, and John Adams's incredibly popular 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine.' Plus selections by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Charles Wakefield Cadman, George Gershwin, George Antheil, Zez Confrey, William Schuman, John Cage, Gunther Schuller, Alan Hovhaness, Elliott Carter and Philip Glass. The performances are more than acceptable and in some instances ('Knoxville,' Rochberg's Violin Concerto) definitive.
I would heartily recommend this set (especially at its superbudget price) to anyone wanting to know more about the history of American classical music -- Scherer is a master of cogent, clear prose -- and wishing to hear examples of the broad range it has taken over the past couple of centuries. I can easily imagine this set being used in a music appreciation course. And I am sure it will spark interest in the newcomer to this branch of classical music.
2 CDs TT=ca. 160 mins.
Scott Morrison
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Fascinatin' Rhythm
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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ASIN: B000004CWB
Release Date: 1995-05-16 |
Tracks:
- Fascinatin' Rhythm
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Solitude
- The Mule Walk
- That Certain Feeling
- Bamboula
- Spring Fever
- Woof I
- Woof II
- Player Piano Study No. 6 - Alan Feinberg/Daniel Druckman
- Clap Yo' Hands
- Promenade
- Dusk In Sandi
- Silhouette
- Candlelight: A Modern Piano Solo
- Mamanita
- Magnetic Rag
- Por Que, Eh?
- Columbia
- The Man I Love
- In Dahomey
- Squeeze Me
- Kitten OnThe Keys
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This seems to be the last survivor of Alan Feinberg's wonderful collections of American piano music. It's a typically fascinating program, mixing music by people thought of as jazz composers (Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, James P. Johnson) with others considered "real" composers (Gershwin, Cowell, Nancarrow, Gottschalk). It's all jazz to Feinberg, who plays everything with gusto and affection, showing that all of this music belongs together in the same part of our music brains. If the concept attracts you, grab this disc now while you can, since Argo hasn't thought Feinberg's other collections worth keeping in the catalog. --Leslie Gerber
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- "early beginnings from the vaults ~ Percy Faith"
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Delicado
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ASIN: B0001EMM2Y
Release Date: 2004-06-29 |
Tracks:
- Amor [From Broadway Rhythm]
- Negra Consentida
- Embraceable You
- Baia (Ne Baixe de Sapateiro) [from The Three Caballeros)
- If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You
- Tico-Tico [From Bathing Beauty]
- Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year [From Christmas Holiday]
- Bem Te VI Atrevido
- I Love You
- Capullito de Aleli
- Long Ago (And Far Away) [From Cover Girl]
- Cumparsita
- Stardust
- Stars in Your Eyes
- Bim Bam Boom
- I'll Close My Eyes - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Hildegarde
- There's No Holding Me - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Hildegarde
- Dancing in the Dark
- That Old Black Magic [from Star-Spangled Rhythm)
- All Through the Night
- Begin the Beguine
- Touch of Your Hand
- Tia Juana
- Temptation [From Going Hollywood]
- Noche Caribe (Caribbean Night) [From Starlift]
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- Body and Soul
- Du - Ray Charles Singers, Percy Faith & His Orchestra
- Deep Purple
- Fiddle Derby
- My Dream Concerto - Ray Charles, , Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Chorus
- Dizzy Fingers - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Magic Voices
- I Got Rhythm
- Flight 33 1/3
- Solitude
- Nervous Gavotte - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Lou Stein
- Mosquitoes' Parade - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Chorus
- Mer (Beyond the Sea)
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- Whirlwind
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- Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)
Customer Reviews:
"early beginnings from the vaults ~ Percy Faith".......2005-02-15
Living Era presents "Delicado", fifty original mono recordings from 1944 to 1955 featuring Maestro Percy Faith who was churning out some of the best releases with top notch arrangements...each song had an upbeat and faraway tone to it...beautiful ballads from composers Harold Arlen, Waldir Azevedo, Irving Berlin, Nacio Herb Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Zez Confrey, Peter De Rose, Jimmy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Rafael Hernandez, Johnny Green, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Cole Porter, Arthur Schwartz ...beautifully recorded representing Faith's limitless talent at crafting musical arrangements to fit an evolving music scene.
Now for the real treat...songs composed by Percy Faith with his unmistakable arranging "NOCHE CARIBE " (Caribbean Night), recorded in New York 1947..."DA DU", with Ray Charles Singers recorded 3/04/1952..."FIDDLE DERBY", recorded in New York 1951..."FLIGHT 33 1/3", after Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumble-Bee, recorded New York 5/11/1950..."NERVOUS GAVOTTE", with Lou Stein on piano recorded New York 5/22/1951..."PERPETUAL NOTION", recorded New York 6/02/1949...Percy's arrangements comes from the heart and weaving a magic spell over the listener...compilation goodies on two compact discs for all the Faith Fans!
Sweeping and gliding strings, beautiful renditions of all time favorite Faith arrangements, such a statement of string counter melodies within the orchestration...many were favorites of my parents when they were dating...these songs represent some of the best arrangements in my Faith collection...when you put this collection on, you're in for a magic carpet ride sprinkled with the "Percy Faith Touch"...every arrangement has the signature of his pen and baton, two totally different tempos and rhythms surface within the boundaries of his genius...no doubt he was a master at his craft, they'll never be another like 'em, they only pass this way once...thank you Living Era for sharing these rare gems with the fans that encountered Maestro Percy Faith!
Total Time: 2-CD-Set ~ Living Era 278 ~ (6/29/2004)
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Duo Pianists: Morley & Gearhart Rediscovered
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ASIN: B00005OMI4
Release Date: 2001-09-18 |
Tracks:
- Three Blind Mice
- Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
- Dance Of Terror from El Amor Brujo
- All The Things You Are
- Eight Waltzes, From Op.39
- Mouvements Perpetuels
- I Got Rhythm
- Frenesi
- Waltz, Op.15, No.2
- An American In Paris
- Russian Lullaby
- Nocturne from Shylock, Op.57
- Concerto in F (Finale)
- April In Paris
- Star Dust
- Blue Danube Waltz, Op.314
- Piece En Forme De Habanera
- Sailor's Dance from The Red Poppy
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- Limehouse Blues
- La Tirelitentaine
- Waltz in A Major, Op.39, No.15
- Can-Can
- Flight Of The Bumblebee
- Tea For Two
- Minute Waltz
- Fetes
- Nola
- Baby Boogie
- Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo
- Music Box, Op.32
- Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
- Parlez Moi D'amour
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
- Prelude In G Minor, Op.23, No.5
- March from The Love For Three Oranges
- With A Song In My Heart
- The Viennese Musical Clock
- In Thee Is Joy
- Stormy Weather
- Kitten On The Keys
- Body And Soul
- Goodnight Ladies
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