Dave_Frishberg-Retromania_at_the_Jazz_Bakery-Live-2006-JUST

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76,12 MB

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2006-07-11

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Artist.......: Dave Frishberg
Album........: Retromania At the Jazz Bakery
Label........: Arbors
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: 19334
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jul-09-2006
str.date.....: Feb-14-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a

track  title                                          time

 01.   Can't Take You Nowhere                        02:46
 02.   Useless Waltz                                 02:18
 03.   Zoot Walks In                                 02:58
 04.   Spoken intro                                  00:33
 05.   Who Do You Think You Are, Jack Dempsey?       02:40
 06.   Spoken intro                                  00:55
 07.   Walkin' on Wall Street                        03:41
 08.   My Attorney Bernie                            03:58
 09.   Spoken intro                                  00:28
 10.   Van Lingle Mungo                              03:12
 11.   Spoken intro                                  00:45
 12.   Dodger Blue                                   03:44
 13.   Spoken intro                                  01:21
 14.   The Dear Departed Past                        06:21
 15.   Spoken intro                                  00:52
 16.   The Catbird Seat                              03:45
 17.   Spoken intro                                  00:18
 18.   Play Ball                                     01:35
 19.   Spoken intro                                  00:47
 20.   Matty                                         02:58
 21.   The Wife and the Kid                          04:03
 22.   Spoken intro                                  00:33
 23.   You'd Rather Have the Blues                   03:47
 24.   Spoken intro                                  00:05
 25.   Eloise                                        03:38
 26.   Spoken intro                                  01:33
 27.   Gotta Get Me Some ZZZ                         03:16
 28.   Listen Here                                   03:08

                                            Runtime  65:58 min
                                            Size     76,0 MB


Release Notes:

Fans of pianist/vocalist Dave Frishberg will be
familiar with most of his originals heard on this
live recording made at the Jazz Bakery, but his
songs are like old friends who are always worth
revisiting. An underappreciated pianist whose
slightly nasal vocals are perfectly suited for his
material, it is obvious that he has the attention
of his audience, though they somehow manage to
restrain themselves from outbursts of laughter, a
nearly impossible feat when hearing Frishberg
perform in person. "Can't Take You Nowhere" and "My
Attorney Bernie" are hilarious romps, while his
thoughtful lyric in "Zoot Walks In" (written to
"The Red Door," which Zoot Sims jointly wrote with
Gerry Mulligan) salutes the tenor saxophonist in an
up-tempo setting. New material includes "Who Do You
Think You Are, Jack Dempsey?" (which incorporates a
good bit of stride piano, though with a modern
touch), the amusing "Walkin' on Wall Street"
(written for the old television series Schoolhouse
Rock but never recorded by Frishberg), along with
the touching ballad "Listen Here" (composed for a
1970s Mary Tyler Moore TV special, though this is
his first recording of it). A number of his works
are centered on baseball; both "Van Lingle Mungo"
and "Dodger Blue" incorporate long lists of the
names of baseball players into their lyrics.
Several others were written for a never-produced
musical called "The Catbird Seat." "Matty" is a
sentimental tribute to Hall of Famer Christy
Mathewson, a clutch pitcher who won 373 games and
died in 1925, before the composer's birth.
Frishberg's liner notes and occasional commentary
to his audience help explain the background to many
of these songs.

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