Three Wishes
When asked by Nica as to what his three wishes would be when asked Bill Evans responded by saying:- “I remember I was asked that when I was a kid! The first one would be for a wishing-ring. And then I wouldn’t need the others.”
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The Way I Really Play is a 1968 album by pianist Oscar Peterson. Recorded at the private studio of Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer in Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany on November 12, 1967. The 44:50 minute sessions was produced by Brunner-Schwer.
Track Listing- Waltzing Is Hip (Ray Brown, Johnny Wayne) – 6:11
- Satin Doll (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 10:05
- Love Is Here to Stay (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:54
- Sandy’s Blues (Oscar Peterson) – 9:34
- Alice In Wonderland (Sammy Fain, Bob Hilliard) – 4:46
- Noreen’s Nocturne (Oscar Peterson) – 9:20
- Oscar Peterson – piano
- Sam Jones – double bass
- Bobby Durham – drums
- Recording director and engineer – Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer
- Liner notes – Gene Lees
- Liner notes translated – Dr. B. Falk
- Cover photography – Sepp Werkmeister
- Reverse side photography – Sepp Werkmeister
- Graphic work – Hans B. Piltzer
- Action (Vol. 1)
- Girl Talk (Vol. 2)
- The Way I Really Play (Vol. 3)
- My Favorite Instrument (Vol. 4) solo piano
- Mellow Mood (Vol. 5)
- Travelin’ On (Vol. 6)
The Way I Really Play was also released as The Great Oscar Peterson on Prestige!
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Three Wishes
Tommy Flanagan had one single answer to the question of was inquired of his three wishes and he responded to Pannonica with:- “I’d like to live forever with good health and a little shelter to enjoy it in.”
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Concert by the Sea is a live album recorded by pianist Erroll Garner on September 19, 1955 in the gothic-revivalist styled assembly hall of Sunset School (now Sunset Arts Center) in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
The original U.S. album cover photograph, showing a model in mid-stride with outstretched arms, was shot by music and fashion photographer Art Kane.
There was no plan to record the concert officially. The release came about because Garner’s personal manager, Martha Glaser, spotted backstage that a tape recorder was running. The recording was being made by a recording engineer for the Armed Forces Radio Network, a jazz fan and scholar named Will Thornbury, strictly for the enjoyment of himself and his fellow servicemen. Glaser took the tape, put it into album form, then played it for Columbia’s jazz division head, George Avakian, who decided to release it on October 13, 1955.
It sold over a million dollars’ worth of retail copies by 1958, qualifying for gold record status by the definition of that time but has never been acknowledged as such by the RIAA.
Track Listing Side 1
- I’ll Remember April
- Teach Me Tonight
- Mambo Carmel
- Autumn Leaves
- It’s Alright With Me
- Red Top
- April In Paris
- They Can’t Take That Away From Me
- How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
- Where Or When
- Erroll’s Theme
- Erroll Garner ~ Piano
- Eddie Calhoun ~ Bass
- Denzil Best ~ Drums
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at the Pershing: BUT NOT FOR ME is a 1958 jazz album by pianist Ahmad Jamal. The tapes were made on January 16, 1958, at the Pershing Lounge of Chicago’s Pershing Hotel and each set played that night which was recorded by Malcolm Chisholm, recording engineer. A total of 43 tracks, of which 8 were selected by Jamal for the album. The LP was produced by Dave Usher and was released later that same year on Argo Records as LP-628. Though Jamal had previous releases on Argo, they had been from previously made masters. This, however, was his first release recorded for Argo and his first live recording.
Of the eight composition selected for the album comprised of standards, the 1936 composed Poinciana became the standout, not only for it’s length at eight minutes, seven seconds but also for his emotionally melodic playing.
In August 1958, Jet magazine referred to the album as “a nationwide hit”. The December 1958 Down Beat poll of music retailers showed that the album was the “#1 jazz bestseller“, selling an unprecedented 47,000 copies, it stayed on Billboard Magazine album charts for 107 weeks and eventually sold more than a million copies.
Track List- “But Not For Me” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:32
- “The Surrey with the Fringe on Top” (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:35
- “Moonlight In Vermont” (Karl Suessdorf, John Blackburn) – 3:09
- “Music, Music, Music” (Put Another Nickel In) (Bernie Baum, Stephen Weiss) – 2:56
- “No Greater Love” (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) – 3:26
- “Poinciana” (Buddy Bernier, Nat Simon) – 8:07
- “Woody N’ You” (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:40
- “What’s New?” (Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) – 4:11
- Ahmad Jamal – piano
- Israel Crosby – bass
- Vernel Fournier – drums
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