Tasting the Wine Country

Track Listings

1. Vintage Niagara Mike Marshall

2. Piacenza Darol Anger/Mike Marshall

3. Sound of Sunlight Mike Marshall

4. Solera Mike Marshall

5. Long Weekend Darol Anger

6. Tra Vigne Mike Marshall

7. Carmel Mike Marshall

8. Children's Song #6 Chick Corea

9. Minor Swing Django Reinhardt/Stéphane Grappelli

10. Golliwog's Cakewalk Claude Debussy

11. Opus 2 Kaila Flexer

12. Odeon Ernesto Nazareth

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Tasting the Wine Country

The Mike Marshall Quintet

Mike Marshall, guitars, mandolin; Darol Anger, violin; Paul McCandless, oboe, sax, English horn; Philip Aaberg, piano; Todd Phillips, bass

Grammy Award-winning musicians blend classical, bluegrass, Latin, and jazz to carry you off to the wine country. This brilliant new acoustic music will set a joyful mood for your celebrations. Liner notes include recipes from acclaimed wine country inns and resorts. Two percent of proceeds are donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

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Tasting the Wine Country

Tracks:

Vintage Niagara Mike Marshall
Piacenza Darol Anger/Mike Marshall
Sound of Sunlight Mike Marshall
Solera Mike Marshall
Long Weekend Darol Anger
Tra Vigne Mike Marshall
Carmel Mike Marshall
Childrens Song #6 Chick Corea
Minor Swing Django Reinhardt/Stane Grappelli
Golliwogs Cakewalk Claude Debussy
Opus 2 Kaila Flexer
Odeon Ernesto Nazareth

Album Description

Tasting the Wine Country

The Mike Marshall Quintet

Mike Marshall, guitars, mandolin; Darol Anger, violin; Paul McCandless, oboe, sax, English horn; Philip Aaberg, piano; Todd Phillips, bass

Customer Reviews:

Marshall and Anger look back to look forward.......2005-12-12

Wonderful songs performed by an excellent lineup musicians hailing from the worlds of bluegrass and Windham Hill records. As far as the origins of certain tracks, Vintage Niagara is actually "Dolphins" from the Marshall/Anger collaboration titled 'Chiaroscuro'. The second track, "Piacenza" also first appeared on that record. Solera is actually "Ybor City" and Long Weekend was originally called "We Three"...both tracks were on Marshall's 'Gator Strut' album. Finally, Carmel is actually the song that appeared on Montreux's breakthrough record 'Live in Montreux', yet was originally titled "Egypt" on that release.
So basically, in addition to some wonderful covers of pieces by DeBussy, Chick Corea, Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt, as well as two newer exclusive tracks, there are some wonderful re-recordings of classic Marshall/Anger compositions included on this recording and, in my opinion, these new versions easily outdo the originals. This is mostly due to the participation of the world class pianist Philip Aaberg, who's playing adds a fuller orchestrated sound to the group, as well as a unique rhythmic dimension that was not prevalent on the string driven sound of the original versions.
If you enjoy the originals, I recommend hearing this and prepare yourself to be highly impressed.

great album.......2005-02-09

this is an awesome from mando king Mike Marshall. The tracks are all awesome. Funny thing- The first track on this, "Vintage Niagra" is identical to the first track off the montreux album, Sign Language (the track is skywritting). And the same as the first track on Marshall/Anger Chauriscoso (or something like that) I think Skywritting is a better version of this song, but this one still kicks. Great album!