The Purple Heart (improvisational solo piano)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
studio recording (55 minutes) of live, uninterrupted, improvisational, solo piano; sounds a lot like Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert" (Also available as player-piano software for the Yamaha Disklavier and PianoDisc systems).

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The Purple Heart (improvisational solo piano)

Rainy Day Soul
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A heartfelt offering from a truly great songwriter

Bruce is back!

Bruce is Amazing!

Rainy Day Soul
Bruce Sudano
Manufacturer: Purple Heart Recording Company
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music
Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0001Z8ODO
Release Date: 2004-03-25

Tracks:

Show Me Who You Are
Le Imagine Cafe
Hey Chattie
Where Would I Be
Time To Be Free
All That Matters
Eagle In the Sky
No Exit
Whether Or Not
Running Thru the Jungle

Customer Reviews:

A heartfelt offering from a truly great songwriter.......2005-09-02

"Rainy Day Soul" is one of the best albums I've listened to in a long time. Bruce's songwriting skills really shine on songs like "Where Would I Be," "Show Me Who You Are," "All That Matters," and "Eagle In The Sky." Actually, there's not a bad song on this CD. "Where Would I Be" is a sweet song that Bruce called an "ode to my wife" (who happens to be Donna Summer). "Running Thru The Jungle" has such an infectious rhythm and melody that it will have you humming it long after the CD is over. The arrangements are simple and uncomplicated, which lets the powerful lyrics shine through. With so much of today's music saying nothing at all, it's refreshing to listen to someone who really has something meaningful to say. For years Bruce willingly stayed in the background as a co-writer of many hits for "the little Mrs." This CD lets him shine as a songwriter who is not afraid to share from the bottom of his heart. This is a CD that will give you a lot to think about.

Bruce is back!.......2004-09-20

I can only give this album my strongest recommendations. It has some great songs about feelings of love and loneliness. The melodies are excellent and could easily have been supported by some more instruments and more musicians, but appearently Bruce has kept the album on a smaller budget. The songs deserve to be listened to again and again and I am sure you will love this album too.

Bruce is Amazing!.......2004-04-18

Rainy Day Soul is a spectacular album. I love "Where would I be" as well as Le Imagine Cafe. Bruce has been nominated for a New Music Weekly award for Best AC Artist of the Year, along with Josh Groban, Seal and John Mayer. He deserves to win!

Tracks:

Pieces of China: The great wall
Pieces of China: Fable
Pieces of China: China blue
Pieces of China: Puppets
Pieces of China: Slow Dance - Lotus
Pieces of China: China chips
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Unroll the flicker's rousing drum
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Soft is the collied night
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Gather for festival bright weed and purple shell
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Wake subtler dreams, and touch me nigh to tears
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Ravished lute, sing to her virgin ears
Poems for Piano, Vol. 1, Op. 4: Whose thin fraud I wink at privily
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: And warms winds spilled fragrance into her solitudes
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: To whose more clear than crystal voice the frost had joined a crystal spell
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: Sleep, weary mind; dream, heart's desire
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: Dust in sunlight, and memory in corners
Poems for Piano, Vol. 2, Op. 5: Make me drunken with deep red torrents of joy
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Rear its frondings sighing in aetherial folds
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Listen! Can you hear the antic melody of fear those two anxious feet are playing?
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Puffed out and marching upon a blue sky
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: And hunged like those top jewels of the night
Poems for Piano, Vol. 3, Op 14: Each gay dunce shall lend a hand
Sonatina No. 1: Largo assai
Sonatina No. 1: Allegretto
Sonatina No. 1: Allegro vivace
Sonatina No. 2: Andante quasi Allegretto
Sonatina No. 2: Allegro moderato
Poems of the Sea: Waves
Poems of the Sea: Chanty
Poems of the Sea: At sea

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The Real Thing
Fantastic Collection of Favorites!!!

The Mantovani Orchestra

Manufacturer: St. Clair Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

The Best Ever Mantovani Collection
At the Movies
Janine Jansen: Concertos & Romance
Whipped Cream & Other Delights (40th Anniversary Edition)
A Man for All Seasons (Special Edition)

ASIN: B00005YC5F
Release Date: 2000-04-18

Customer Reviews:

The Real Thing.......2007-01-27

I'm a HUGE Mantovani fan and have had mixed results trying to upgrade my collection to CDs. This collection is the original orchestra arrangements of all the classics. This is the one to buy.

Fantastic Collection of Favorites!!!.......2003-07-02

The Mantovanti Orchestra shows off their "marvelous versatility" in this "wonderful" collection of "8 CDs", with titles that tell you "just what to expect", such as: "The Love Songs", "Memorable Classics", "Itallian Favorites", "On Broadway", etc. You can set the MOOD for practically ANY occassion! There are even some "popular" selections that we all know and treasure like: "Moon River", "Over the Rainbow" and "Autum Leaves"!
You will NOT want to remove these GREAT CDs from your CD Player, once you have listened to them! They make "nice" background music for small get-togethers or "lovely" background music for those "ROMANTIC DINNERS", for you and your "SPECIAL SOMEONE"!!! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SET!!! It is a GREAT DEAL for the money, even at the full price!!!

Hopelessly Romantic: The Songs Of Vittorio Giannini On Poems By Karl Flaster

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Hopelessly Romantic: The Songs Of Vittorio Giannini On Poems By Karl Flaster

Manufacturer: Aca Digital
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000004CKR
Release Date: 1995-05-19

Tracks:

Sing To My Heart A Song
I Shall Think Of You
It Is A Spring Night
Little Girl In Blue
Moonlight
Three Poems Of The Sea: Sea Dream
Three Poems Of The Sea: Waiting
Three Poems Of The Sea: Song Of The Albatross
There Were Two Swans
Be Still My Heart
I Did Not Know
My Love For You Has Grown
Love
Parting
The Sun Had Set
Heart Cry
Far Above The Purple Hills
If I Had Known
Tell Me, Oh Blue, Blue Sky
I Only Know
Three Oriental Chants: Life
Three Oriental Chants: Shadows
Three Oriental Chants: Eternity
Longing

The Purple Heart (improvisational solo piano)

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The Purple Heart (improvisational solo piano)

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Jazz | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B0000859OT
Release Date: 2003-01-07

Album Description

studio recording (55 minutes) of live, uninterrupted, improvisational, solo piano; sounds a lot like Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert" (Also available as player-piano software for the Yamaha Disklavier and PianoDisc systems).

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"early beginnings from the vaults ~ Percy Faith"

Delicado

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
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]

Tracks:

Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19: Midsummer Vigil
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)
Kitten on the Keys - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Stan Freeman, Bernie Leighton, Chorus
Whirlwind
Cumbanchero [From Cuban Pete]
Goodbye John - Ray Charles Singers, Percy Faith & His Orchestra
Perpetual Notion
They Can't Take That Away from Me [From Shall We Dance?] - Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Chorus
Soft Lights and Sweet Music
Oodles of Noodles
Would You?
Cumana
Delicado
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)

Decided ... Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I"

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Decent, but not great.
Radical therapy
more or less amazing

Decided ... Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I"
Purple Trap
Manufacturer: Tzadik
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00000I9EX
Release Date: 1999-03-23

Tracks:

Who Decided The Number 1?
The Reassembling Place Of Dispersed Holy Murderous Thought
I Already Know The Settlement Of Iridescent Happiness
I Can Hear A Scream...A Scream Resembling A Scream
Only Half Of An Imitation Or Your Imitation Of Yourself
Come To This Side...Sadness
Supposedly Generous Possessors Of Death Meet A Warning While Napping

Tracks:

Just Now Let Us Continue To Say Farewell
Decided...Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called 'I'
A Sudden Accident Protesting Production Methods
Where Shall Released Time Go Next?
Continuously Draw A Gentle Spiral...Red Death!
Ask A So-Called Sage Who Speaks Only Plausible Excuses The Meaning Of The Volition 'Further...'

Customer Reviews:

Decent, but not great........2004-03-30

Purple Trap, Decided... Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling the Prayer Called "I" (Tzadik, 1999)

I wasn't quite sure what to expect from a supergroup with avant-guitar genius Keiji Haino and dub producer/bassist Bill Laswell. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't what I got from this odd, intriguing little album.

Really, the best way to describe what this album contains is likely "free jazz." But free jazz with a Naked City feel to it. Jangly guitar and rubber-club-dub bass flow around the atmosphere, never really cohering, with (what I assume are Japanese, but unintelligible either way) howled, screamed vocals thrown atop the mix. Not the frenetic screechings of Naked City vocalist Yamatsuka Eye; rather, the vocals here, despite the method of delivery, seem almost languid.

I'm not a big fan of free jazz, to be honest. I love the ambient work I've heard from both Heino and Laswell, and so I'm willing to cut them some slack and assume this album will eventually grow on me. If this makes any sense, it's chaotic, but not quite chaotic enough; it lacks the all-out breakdown of noise, while not having enough structure to class in the same school as Laswell's brilliant side project Automaton. It's listenable, but the in-between-ness probably makes it something I won't pull out all that often. ** ½

Radical therapy.......2003-03-17

I've stayed a bit longer in the office, enjoying the solitude.

Reached in a drawer full of CDs, for something extreme to purify me from all the human noise this day has brought. I went for the ultimate: a CD of a band called Purple Trap (consisted of Haino Keiji, probably the 'craziest' of the guitar heroes, plus Rashied Ali and Bill Laswell). Never before did I manage to listen to it for more than 5 minutes. That's should tell a lot, 'cause I have two very big, curious and hungry ears.

The CD is called "Decided... Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I" "

20 minutes on, and it all starts making sense! I thought these guys were basically making fun of the so-called avant-guard being a priori taken seriously: all three of them have quite a reputation so they could record their most drunken session and still be taken seriously. But no! Somehow, after an extreme day such as this one these noises and twisted vocals, this extreme, tormented, disjointed mess of sound is not Chaos. It's precisely the Logos, as it exists, the shredded logos, the familiar and causal chaos. These are the facts of the day, they didn't just happen, they're result of an experience. It IS the logos pervading the body at this given moment, this joined mass of tissue and blood and nerves and... It's the loose logos that waits to be re-aligned. And boy... are these guys re-aligning it!!! They keep at it for 125 minutes on the 2CD set.

And the titles... they are exactly appropriate: "The Reassembling Place Of Dispersed Holy Murderous Thought", "I Already Know The Settlement Of Iridescent Happiness", "I Can Hear A Scream... A Scream Resembling A Scream", "Only Half Of An Imitation Of Your Imitation Of Yourself", "Come To This Side... Sadness", "Supposedly Generous Possesors Of Death Meet A Warning While Napping", "Where Shall Released Time Go Next?"

Pheeeeew!

more or less amazing.......2001-12-17

this is, quite possibly, one keiji haino's greatest recent recordings (though he has set so much transcendental beauty to disc lately it is hard to single out a favorite). haino and legend rashied ali compelement each other particularly well on this one; their stylistic differences strengthen each others' personal musical statements. bill laswell is...well he's bill laswell. a lot of effects. sort of a bubbly bass sound. when he comes to the fore, the music falters, but this cd is worth the purchase price for the first track alone. a punishing yet easygoing listening experience. really.

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Purple Heart Soldier

Manufacturer: TXR Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000NO9BIU

Product Description

The story behind the Purple Heart Soldier.

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Michael at his Glorious Best
great heart

Purple Heart
Michael Callen
Manufacturer: Significant Other
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000000DH
Release Date: 1994-03-21

Tracks:

Where The Boys Are
Me & Dickie D
Living In Wartime
How To Have Sex
Take It Easy
Love Don't Need A Reason
Small Town Change
Nobody's Fool
On The Other Side
Talking Old Soldiers
Home

Customer Reviews:

Michael at his Glorious Best.......2007-07-01

Every song is a standout with Michael never giving less than 100%. The music offers a glimpse of a time and Michael delivers that time to us with his considerable talent. Listen to the words he sings.

great heart.......1999-05-02

Michael put everything into this album. There's a lot of great music here performed memorably from a distinctly personal viewpoint. Among the standouts are Mike's interpretation of "Small Town Change," written by an artist he adored, Don Yowell. Dick Dworkin's production is standout. A album for all times by a timeless artist.