Chiaroscuro

1. Dolphins

2. Saurian's Farewell

3. Beneath the Surface

4. Spring Gesture

5. Bach Prelude

6. Piacenza

7. Coming Back

8. Dardanelles

9. Bach Bourée [From the French Suite]

10. Beloved Infidel

Chiaroscuro,Darol Anger,Windham Hill Records,Adult Alternative,Chamber Jazz,Jazz Music,New Acoustic,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Progressive Bluegrass

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Average customer rating: Six stars, at least Keep Copies Everywhere

Chiaroscuro Manufacturer: Windham Hill Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sign Language ASIN: B000000NGD Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Dolphins
2. Saurian's Farewell
3. Beneath The Surface
4. Spring Gesture
5. Bach Prelude
6. Piacenza
7. Coming Back
8. Dardanelles
9. Bach Bouree (From The French Suite)
10. Beloved Infidel

Customer Reviews:

Six stars, at least.......2006-10-05

I bought this CD when in first came out in 1985. 20-odd years later, I'm still listening to it. There has not been a time when this album was not in rotation on my player. There isn't any other album I can say that about. It's good, it's still good, it never stales.

Keep Copies Everywhere.......2004-04-09

It's a bit of an embarrassment to admit that the thing that has gotten in the way of reviewing this album is that I keep forgetting to review and wind up just listening. All of the musicians at the heart of this album are remarkable. Darol Anger on violin, Mike Marshall on guitar, Michael Manring and Todd Phillips on Bass, Andy Narell on Steel Drums, Barbara Higbie on synth, and even George Marsh on triangle. Some of the best light jazz players of their time (1985), it is immediately apparent that they respect what each has to add to the mix and have a strong commitment to be something else besides 'yet another new age group.'

Darol Anger needs no introduction. 'Dolphins' and 'Spring Gesture' are hallmark tunes, that get a lot of airtime and inclusion in other collections. Mike Marshall is no slouch either, comfortable trading lines with Anger or stepping out for a short moment of Bach just to show off. These to are regular playing partners and have the entire Windham Hill stable of artists to draw one. This makes the player lists on their albums a catalog of wizardry. As I've already demonstrated, Chiaroscuro is no exception to that rule.

So the next time you are feeling that New Age music is a little to spacey, and that light jazz has vaporized, grab this album and give a listen. This is fun, showing off, and everything from Bach to blues in the blinking of an eye. And not by rote, but with every bit of imagination that they can muster. Anger and Marshall playing 'Piacenza' is something that needs to be experience at least once in every life. Trust me, this album is one of the reasons you have a shelf right next to your CD Player.

Average customer rating: A Felicitous pairing the story of an incredible meeting

Buddy Tate Meets Abdullah Ibrahim: The Legendary 1977 Encounter Buddy Tate Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Modern Post Bop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Duet African Sun Journey African Magic African Piano ASIN: B000003H94 Release Date: 1996-06-18

Tracks:

1. Goduka Mfundi (Going Home)
2. Heyt Mazurki
3. Poor Butterfly
4. In A Sentimental Mood
5. Doggin' Around
6. Just You, Just Me
7. Shrimp Boats
8. Django

Customer Reviews:

A Felicitous pairing.......2004-05-28

This unlikely 1977 pairing turned out to be a bonanza for both men. Tate had not yet begun to lose his wind and Ibrahim was young and still open to the jazz influences he was searching for in America. Both men somehow conspired to bring out the best in the other. Ibrahim was so respectful of Tate that he entrusted his own opening tune, "Goduka Mfundi", to the captaincy of Tate and the rhythm section and sat out on piano. Tate never sounded better. Ibrahim's South African tonic was just the pick-me-up Tate needed as he entered the senior years of his career. And Ibrahim displays what a completely original keyboard voice he is on Duke's "In a Sentimental Mood" and the monumental, "Django". Thought you'd heard everything that could be done with "Django"? You haven't heard this. But perhaps the greatest revelation of this CD is bassist, Cecil McBee, who is liberally featured throughout and proves himself an absolute monster of the upright.If Hank O'Neal ever produced a better record I haven't heard it yet. This is jazz at its shining best.

the story of an incredible meeting.......2001-12-26

Who would have thought that Buddy Tate and Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand) would record together someday ? Buddy Tate (1913-2001),a tenor sax master from the swing era, was a member of Count Basie's orchestra at the end of the thirties,and remained active in music after he turned 80 years old. Pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (born October 9,1934 in South Africa),was discovered by Duke Ellington.Duke even produced his first recording session, on the Reprise label (at that time,Abdullah was known as Dollar Brand),and also produced a record of Dollar's wife,singer Sathima Bea Benjamin.Then,Abdullah recorded several masterpieces,mostly in solo piano ("anthem for the new nations" on Denon,"ode to Duke Ellington" and "memories" on West Wind,"african piano" on ECM,"anatomy of a south african village" on Black Lion,and many others.
In 1977,producer Hank O'Neal had the crazy idea of inviting Dollar and Buddy to record together.This was the idea: Abdullah would teach Buddy some of his tunes ("Goduka Mfundi" and "Heyt Mazurki"),Buddy would teach Abdullah some of his ("doggin' around" and "just you,just me"), and a pair of standards would complete the session ("poor butterfly" and Duke's "in a sentimental mood").Bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Roy Brooks were hired for the session;they both recorded with Abdullah for Enja a few months before.Buddy Tate's playing is great,he really feels at home, and Abdullah's solos on standards is interesting to discover.After the first six tracks were taped,Buddy had to leave because he was playing at the Crawdaddy Club,NYC,so the trio recorded two more tracks which didn't appear on the original LP."shrimp boats", a Randy Weston original, sounds very african."Django", of course, is John Lewis' masterpiece, a tune dedicated to french gipsy guitar player, Django Reinhardt.After a haunting ad-lib introduction,with only drums,bass and voice (Abdullah's ?),the trio goes into a Coltrane-like exploration of the theme,without playing it.Abdullah's playing is very reminiscent of McCoy Tyner's,not based on the melody of the tune but only on the chords.THis is a very interesting meeting of two masters who maybe would never had the opportunity of playing together.And another marvel from Chiaroscuro,a label who commited some great records in the 70's.

Average customer rating: It swings!!

Joe & Zoot & More Joe Venuti , and Zoot Sims Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Joe Venuti and Zoot Sims Alone at the Palace Hot Sonatas Never Before...Never Again S'Wonderful: 4 Giants Of Swing ASIN: B00006CTFB Release Date: 2002-09-03

Tracks:

1. I Found A New Baby
2. There's A Small Hotel
3. Indiana
4. My One And Only Love
5. The Wild Cat
6. It's The Girl
7. Oh, Lady Be Good
8. Someday Sweetheart
9. C Jam Blues
10. Blue Too
11. Oh, Lady Be Good
12. Dinah
13. Tea For Three
14. Diga Diga Do
15. I'll Never Be The Same
16. String The Blues
17. The Blue Room

Customer Reviews:

It swings!!.......2003-02-15

I first saw this album mentioned in Down Beat, and the two title stars obviously caught my attention, but that didn't completely convince me that I should run out and buy it. That was achieved by the Down Beat writer's use of the magic words - Adrian Rollini. No, Rollini isn't on this session (he wasn't even around then, seeing as he died in the mid-fiftes), but the reviewer noted that Spencer Clark played in the Rollini style on this album, and not badly, either.

I think Adrian would have liked Clark's work here very much. I also think Adrian would have told the sound engineer to get a better balance between the bass sax and everyone else at times, but that's beside the point. Of course the two title stars are great on the album as well! Zoot Sims plays on the first nine songs, and he plays more on the soprano sax than he does on his tenor. After listening to him on soprano, I think I have finally become de-traumatized and gotten over my sopsaxophobia brought on by having heard the ubiquitous so-called jazz musician Kenny G. That being said, Zoot's tenor work is also enjoyable; breathy, but not without focus. Venuti plays the hot numbers extraordinarily hot and the ballads wonderfully. The blend he achieves with Zoot is especially notable. Other big names on the album include Milt Hinton and Bucky Pizzarelli.

The style of all the songs is not limited to a single genre. Elements of everything from trad to bop are thrown in and used tastefully. All in all, it swings!

Average customer rating: Found At Sea

Live at the Floating Jazz Festival Johnny Frigo Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Johnny Frigo's DNA Exposed! I Love John Frigo...He Swings Live from Studio A in New York City ASIN: B00000JWQZ Release Date: 1999-08-24

Tracks:

1. My Romance
2. Porgy And Bess Medley
3. My Favorite Things
4. There Will Never Be Another You
5. Detour Ahead
6. The Man I Love/I've Got A Crush On You/Liza/Strike Up The Band
7. My Foolish Heart
8. It Might As Well Be Spring
9. This Can't Be Love
10. Isn't It Romantic
11. Lester Leaps In

Customer Reviews:

Found At Sea.......2004-10-03

If anyone thinks it isn't possible to be lyrical, and swing at the same time, one listen to this album will disuade you of such a notion. Frigo's playing will convince the listener that the violin was originally designed for jazz all along.

Average customer rating:

Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vol. 2 Bobby Hackett Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vol. 3 Live at the Roosevelt Grill With Vic Dickenson, Vol. 4 Live at the Roosevelt Grill Jazz Ultimate/Coast Concert Soft Lights/In a Mellow Mood ASIN: B000003H8S Release Date: 1997-02-11

Tracks:

1. Thou Swell
2. Things Aint What They Used To Be
3. It's Wonderful
4. Lover Come Back To Me
5. If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight
6. Jitterbug Waltz
7. Blue Lou
8. I'll Try
9. Misty
10. A String Of Pearls
11. More Than You Know
12. Just You, Just Me
13. 'SWonderful
14. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
15. A Time To Love
16. Easter Parade
17. I May Be Wrong

Average customer rating:

Mood Swings Kathy Kosins Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: All in a Dream's Work Vintage ASIN: B00005YESC Release Date: 2002-01-22

Tracks:

1. I Was There
2. Paradise
3. Foxey Lady
4. Just Be Looking In Your Eyes
5. No Ordinary Joe
6. Maybe September
7. Livin In Style
8. Between Your Heart And Mine
9. Love Me Like A Song
10. Gee Baby (Ain't I Good To You)
11. Melancholy Serenade

Average customer rating: It delivers the goods A Warning to Buyers

Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players Ralph Sutton with Jay McShann Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Stride Piano | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Swing Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players: The Original Sessions Swings St. Louis Jumpin' the Blues Goin' to Kansas City King of Stride Piano 1918-1944 ASIN: B000003H9F Release Date: 1994-03-04

Tracks:

1. Honey
2. Old Fashioned Love
3. Fore Day Rider
4. On the Sunny Side Of The Street
5. Sweet Georgia Brown
6. Do Wah
7. Indiana
8. Deed I Do
9. Crazy Rhythm
10. Cherry
11. Pretty Baby
12. I've Found A New Baby
13. JazzSpeak

Customer Reviews:

It delivers the goods.......2004-05-12

This is one spectacular recording -- toe-tapping, head-nodding, straight-up piano jazz. Dig it. Worth every penny.

A Warning to Buyers.......2002-02-02

There are TWO (count 'em, two) CD's called "Last of the Whorehouse Piano Players," both with Jay McShann and Ralph Sutton, but with completely different song listings. If you want to see the other, type that title into the Search box and they both pop up. They also have almost identical identifiers: The one with this review is Chiaroscuro; ASIN: B000003H9F, and the other one is Chiaroscuro; ASIN: B000003H98.

Average customer rating: Bach doing bop. Beethoven and boogie. Debussy meets Duke. Classic Costa

Classic Costa Johnny Costa Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Flying Fingers Dream: Johnny Costa Plays Johnny Mercer A Portrait of George Gershwin Songs From the Neighborhood -The Music of Mr. Rogers Dreamgirls (Two-Disc Showstopper Edition) ASIN: B000003H97 Release Date: 1993-07-28

Tracks:

1. Holiday For Strings
2. Get Happy
3. My Funny Valentine
4. Debbie
5. You Came A Long Way From St. Louis
6. Just One Of Those Things
7. The Man I Love
8. How High The Moon
9. It Never Entered My Mind
10. At The Darktown Strutters' Ball
11. They're Not Writing
12. What Is This Thing Called Love?
13. Stumbling
14. Stella by Starlight
15. Cherokee
16. Do Nothing 'Till You Hear From Me
17. Fascinating Rhythm
18. Jazzspeak

Customer Reviews:

Bach doing bop. Beethoven and boogie. Debussy meets Duke........2002-08-28

On this album Johnny Costa demonstrates his pedigree in a most delightful way. You can clearly hear the influences of the classical masters in several of Costa's arrangements. Yet his jazz technique is stunning.

In "Darktown Strutters Ball," Costa starts with an interesting boogie-woogie left hand that melds into a Tatum-like stride at times. In fact, his left hand carries the melodic load in "Cherokee" while he plays some interesting, rhythmic, dissonant chords with the right. Costa gives "Stella By Starlight" a beautiful ballad treatment that is reminiscent of Errol Garner. But my favorite is "Get Happy"; it's an exuberant rush of wonderful jazz ideas spinning out at an ear-popping pace.

The fabulous thing about Costa's album is that no two songs sound the same. I *love* Oscar Peterson, but once I hear 5 seconds of one of his recordings, I know who's playing. By contrast, Costa draws from such a diverse wealth of musical ideas that every song is fresh. Yet his terrific technique and melodic sensibility shine through on each arrangement.

It's clear that Costa's talent, innovative arrangements and eclectic style should have placed him at the very pinnacle of piano jazz. Because he preferred his family to the tours that sell albums, though, Costa toiled in relative obscurity on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood until the very end of his career. If you like piano jazz, do NOT miss out on this album. It is a gem!

Classic Costa.......2002-01-12

This is an incredible album. All those years that I watched "Mr. Rogers Neighborhood" with my kids, I always admired the pianist and his eloquent accompaniment. Never did I guess the true genius of Johnny Costa on the piano until I hear this album! For those Tatum lovers out there, Johnny Costa is as close as you'll come. While Peterson has the tremendous left hand and overall technique, his style is more chordal than Costa's. Costa has captured the essence of Tatum's stride piano style with the walking left hand and the rambling right hand solo counterpoint. Listening to this album made my hair stand on end. Costa is a true genius and tremendously underrated. Buy this album. If you're disappointed, I pity you!

Average customer rating:

Live at the Roosevelt Grill With Vic Dickenson, Vol. 4 Bobby Hackett Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vol. 2 Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vol. 3 Live at the Roosevelt Grill ASIN: B0000931LQ Release Date: 2003-06-03

Tracks:

1. You Stepped Out Of A Dream
2. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
3. Take The 'A' Train
4. Mister Lucky
5. Stompin' At The Savoy
6. Love Is Just Around The Corner
7. Sunday
8. The Girl From Ipanema
9. Love Is Here To Stay
10. Manha De Carnaval
11. Autumn In New York
12. Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week
13. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
14. Manhattan
15. Keeping Out Of Mischief Now
16. I Thought About You

Average customer rating:

Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vol. 3 Bobby Hackett Featuring Vic Dickenson Manufacturer: Chiaroscuro Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional & Vocal Pop | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Live at the Roosevelt Grill, Vol. 2 Live at the Roosevelt Grill With Vic Dickenson, Vol. 4 Live at the Roosevelt Grill Jazz Ultimate/Coast Concert ASIN: B00000J27A Release Date: 1999-06-15

Tracks:

1. Fidgety Feet
2. Baby Won't You Please Come With Home
3. Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
4. Tin Roof Blues
5. Sweet Georgia Brown
6. After You've Gone
7. New Orelans
8. Struttin' With Some Barbecue
9. Basin Street Blues
10. Wolverine Blues
11. Ain't Misbehavin'
12. Someday Sweetheart
13. Muskrat Rambie
14. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll

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