Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin

Product Description
The septet that appears on The American Soul is built upon the trio, with three tracks featuring the threesome, including the opener "Who Cares," "Liza," and the rarity "I Was So Young (You Were So Beautiful)." (Charlap also renders the closer, "Soon," as an unaccompanied piano solo, in effect putting his signature on the end of the recording.) The remaining six tracks feature various members of the four-horn frontline recruited for this album, an astounding collection of musicians spanning several generations, including Nicholas Payton on trumpet, Slide Hampton on trombone, Phil Woods on alto saxophone, and Frank Wess on tenor saxophone.

Bill Charlap: piano
Peter Washington: bass
Kenny Washington: drums

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Average customer rating: Gershwin chamber jazz, with all that implies... Get his other CDs instead Great Musicians at Their Most Uninspired Just magnificent! Really Gershwin ?

Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin Bill Charlap Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Love Is Here to Stay Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein Written in the Stars Stardust You Taught My Heart to Sing ASIN: B0009NCPEW Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. Who Cares?
2. Somebody Loves Me
3. Liza
4. How Long Has This Been Going On?
5. A Foggy Day
6. 'S Wonderful
7. I Was So Young And You Were So Beautiful
8. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
9. Nice Work If You Can Get It
10. Soon

Album Description

The septet that appears on The American Soul is built upon the trio, with three tracks featuring the threesome, including the opener "Who Cares," "Liza," and the rarity "I Was So Young (You Were So Beautiful)." (Charlap also renders the closer, "Soon," as an unaccompanied piano solo, in effect putting his signature on the end of the recording.) The remaining six tracks feature various members of the four-horn frontline recruited for this album, an astounding collection of musicians spanning several generations, including Nicholas Payton on trumpet, Slide Hampton on trombone, Phil Woods on alto saxophone, and Frank Wess on tenor saxophone.

Bill Charlap: piano
Peter Washington: bass
Kenny Washington: drums

Customer Reviews:

Gershwin chamber jazz, with all that implies..........2005-10-06

One way of interpreting Gershwin is as jaunty and spiffy, and this recording is just that. The tunes bounce around merrily for the most part and make no pretense at great profundity.

There remains the question, however, as to just how inventive the horn soloists are.

Well, there is no truth to the charge that Slide Hampton's solos are not inventive. Here's a quiz: what is the tune that Mr. Hampton quotes in his solo on 'Somebody Loves Me'? Inventive or no? Ah, but first you have to recognize a quote when you hear it... Some subtleties go just above people's heads...

Get his other CDs instead.......2005-09-09

This is okay but it is not the sterling brilliant work Charlap does on his three previous efforts at all. Get any of those instead of this one. Get Stardust. Get Somewhere. Get Written in the Stars. Any and all of those three instead of this one. Another warning...this Gershwin one has the annoying Copy Control demon on it so when you load it onto your mp3 it skips and jumps. most annoying. whatever happen to fair use by people who buy the music????

Great Musicians at Their Most Uninspired.......2005-09-03

I sort of happened upon Bill Charlap when I heard "Somewhere" because there is a decided lack of exciting piano trios around, unless you still like the Keith Jarrett factory. Charlap is one of those guys who has incredible almost orchestral subtlety, and gets that sparkling sound out of his piano lines, but still makes it sound like he's not even trying very hard. But the addition of the horns on this CD ruins it for me - Charlap loses control, and the rest of the musicians turn this into a jam session with tunes that are, let's face it, not that exciting by themselves anymore. I like Payton's energy, but it doesn't seem to mesh with the group. Even when the horns are cut out, "Liza" seems hurried. "I Was So Young" is nice, but even that doesn't have the harmonic or compositional freshness of Charlap's full trio CDs. Compare Charlap plays Gershwin with the Fred Hersch Trio +2, a great example of a trio pianist really taking the time to flesh out and expand his ideas with wind instruments. I hope Charlap takes his time with his next CD, because he's capable of something original and fresh and that's so rare today.

Just magnificent!.......2005-08-25

Bill Charlap owns the piano and this album is among his very best. Can't recommend it enough.

Really Gershwin ?.......2005-08-20

Mr Charlap is to go without saying excellent. I got the recommendation from the New York Times---but---It shows the importance of listening to a disc before you purchase it. My preference is smooth jazz. The person who reviewed this disc has different taste in music than I do and the fault is mine. I'll donate the disc to the local library.

Average customer rating:

Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul Bill Charlap ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009MWAQ6 Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

1. Who Cares?
2. Somebody Loves Me
3. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)
4. How Long Has This Been Going On?
5. Foggy Day
6. 'S Wonderful
7. I Was So Young and You Were So Beautiful
8. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
9. Nice Work If You Can Get It
10. Soon

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