Ruby, My Dear

About the Artist
A Frenchman of Italian ancestry, Galliano (now 54) began playing accordion at age four. He won the accordion world championship in Valencia, Spain, in 1966; the following year he received the prestigious Prix du President de la Republique in Calais, France. He accrued all these honors before playing a note of jazz.

Galliano became a jazzer after hearing the historic Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet in the mid-60s. He joined the Claude Nougaro Big Band for a three-year stint, then launched his solo career in 1976, recording with Chet Baker in the mid-80s. Over the years he has collaborated with such greats as Ron Carter, Toots Thielemans, Pierre Michelot, Joe Zawinul and Biréli Lagrène. His tenure with Dreyfus Records began in 1993.

Larry Grenadier is one of the most sought-after bassists of his generation. A longtime member of Brad Mehldau’s trio, Grenadier has also worked with Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel and many more. He is a co-leader of the trio FLY, with tenor saxophonist Mark Turner and drummer Jeff Ballard.

Clarence Penn, one of today’s most explosive yet subtle forces behind the drum kit, has enjoyed high-profile stints with Dave Douglas, Maria Schneider, Joshua Redman, Luciana Souza and many others. His recordings as a leader, on the Criss Cross label, are Play-Penn (2001) and Penn’s Landing (1997).

Product Description
On the cover of his new Dreyfus Records release "Ruby, My Dear," French accordion master Richard Galliano looms large over the New York City landscape. "New York has always made me dream," he says. "Each time I come to New York a new energy invades me." His performances in New York are, in fact, rare. But in 2003 he held court high above Lincoln Center in the magisterial Kaplan Penthouse, playing with his "New York Trio," featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Clarence Penn. Listeners were in awe, and they’ve been eagerly awaiting an album by this great new Galliano lineup.

That album has now arrived. Recorded live in Italy on New Year’s Day 2004, "Ruby, My Dear" finds Galliano and the New York Trio in peak form, playing Galliano’s originals and interpreting the music of Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Carlos Almaran Eleta and even Erik Satie. The album, co-produced by Galliano and Francis Dreyfus, is dedicated to the recently departed French novelist Françoise Sagan. "Her fragile and emotional touch is quite similar to my music, in the way I play," says Galliano of Sagan.

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Average customer rating: Great Musicianship This is no Ump pa pa accordion music !!! incredible live album does Galliano justice Galliano is extraordinary by any standards.

Ruby, My Dear Richard Galliano New York Trio Manufacturer: Dreyfus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: French Touch New York Tango Piazzolla Forever Face to Face Gallianissimo ASIN: B000A0GOSW Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

1. Ruby, My Dear (Monk)
2. L'insidieuse (Galliano)
3. Historia De Un Amor (Eleta)
4. Bohemia After Dark (Pettiford)
5. Gnosseinne No.1 (Satie)
6. Teulada (Galliano)
7. Na(Galliano)
8. Spleen (Galliano)
9. Walts For Nicky (Galliano)

Album Description

On the cover of his new Dreyfus Records release "Ruby, My Dear," French accordion master Richard Galliano looms large over the New York City landscape. "New York has always made me dream," he says. "Each time I come to New York a new energy invades me." His performances in New York are, in fact, rare. But in 2003 he held court high above Lincoln Center in the magisterial Kaplan Penthouse, playing with his "New York Trio," featuring bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Clarence Penn. Listeners were in awe, and they've been eagerly awaiting an album by this great new Galliano lineup.

That album has now arrived. Recorded live in Italy on New Year's Day 2004, "Ruby, My Dear" finds Galliano and the New York Trio in peak form, playing Galliano's originals and interpreting the music of Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford, Carlos Almaran Eleta and even Erik Satie. The album, co-produced by Galliano and Francis Dreyfus, is dedicated to the recently departed French novelist Françoise Sagan. "Her fragile and emotional touch is quite similar to my music, in the way I play," says Galliano of Sagan.

Customer Reviews:

Great Musicianship.......2007-03-01

I also heard Ruby, My Dear in San Francisco on 91.1 FM and I also knew I had to have this CD. I started my musical life at the age of 5, taking accordian lessons in Milwaukee. 55 years later, this was the best I have ever heard. Every cut on this album was unfamiliar to me as RG stuck to his French/Italian roots. I would like to hear his interpretations on some more familiar standards. His pairing on Face to Face with the Hammond Organ is great too. I wonder if he will tour the USA again?

This is no Ump pa pa accordion music !!!.......2006-07-26

When I first heard a cut from Ruby My Dear on the radio, I was so taken aback by the contrast of bone shaking bass and brilliant accordion colored by outta sight drums. I knew I had to get my hands on it.......and soon !

incredible live album does Galliano justice.......2005-11-04

This man is a phenomenon. Jazz musicians need to hear him to understand what the accordion is capable of doing, and accordionists should listen to him to learn more about melody and harmonizations. Galliano packs a serious punch: he's probabaly one of the best professional accordionists in the world, he's one of the best jazz musicians I've ever seen, and he writes serious music.

I had the great fortune of seeing Galliano two nights in a row in NYC in 2003 with this very band. For 2 years I wished those concerts were recorded. Well, this recording isn't from the same set of shows but it sounds every bit like being at a concert. Incidentally, all of his studios albums are great too (with the exception of 'Spleen').

Galliano is extraordinary by any standards........2005-09-25

Galliano plays the chromatic button accordion. He is stunning in his creative command of the instrument across various idioms. This CD got air time on SF Bay area's jazz station, KCSM, 91.1 - that's how I first heard it. The album title - Ruby, My Dear - sets the mind a stir in imagining what a fine pairing Monk would have been with Galliano. This is the best imaginable free reed fresh air. It's also great listening through and through. Those who know of Galliano probably also have seen him close up on an incredible Birelli Lagrene DVD called Jazz a Vienne. This is wonderful music.

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Ruby, My Dear Richard Galliano New York Trio Manufacturer: Video Arts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0006TN9H6 Release Date: 2005-04-25

Tracks:

1. Ruby, My Dear
2. L'insidieuse
3. Historia De Un Amor
4. Bohemia After Dark
5. Gnossienne No. 1
6. Teulada
7. Naia
8. Spleen
9. Waltz For Nicky

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Gay: The Beggars' Opera [Excerpts] Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000WX2 Release Date: 1993-01-20

Tracks:

1. 'The Beggar's Opera': Overture
2. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thro'All The Employement Of Life
3. 'The Beggar's Opera': 'Tis Woman That Seduces All Mankind
4. 'The Beggar's Opera': If Any Wench Venus' Girdle Wear
5. 'The Beggar's Opera': Our Polly Is A Sad Slut
6. 'The Beggar's Opera': Can Love B e Controlled By Advice
7. 'The Beggar's Opera': O, Polly, You Might Have Toyed And Kissed
8. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Fox May Steal Your Hens, Sir
9. O Ponder Well
10. The Turtle Thus With Plaintive Crying
11. 'The Beggar's Opera': My Heart Was So Free
12. 'The Beggar's Opera': Where I Laid On Greenland's Coast; O What pain It Is To Part
13. 'The Beggar's Opera': Fill Every Glass; Let Us Take The Road
14. 'The Beggar's Opera': If The Heart Of A Man
15. 'The Beggar's Opera': Youth's The Season
16. 'The Beggar's Opera': Before The Barn-Door Crowing
17. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Cruel Are The Traitors
18. 'The Beggar's Opera': When You Censure The Age
19. 'The Beggar's Opera': Is Then His Fate Decreed?
20. 'The Beggar's Opera': How Happy Could I Be With Either
21. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Bubbled, I'm Bubbled
22. 'The Beggar's Opera': Cease Your Funning
23. 'The Beggar's Opera': Why, How Now, Madam Flirt
24. 'The Beggar's Opera': No Power On Earth
25. 'The Beggar's Opera': Interlude
26. 'The Beggar's Opera': When Young At The Bar
27. 'The Beggar's Opera': I'm Like A Skiff
28. 'The Beggar's Opera': Thus Gamesters United
29. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Modes Of The Court
30. 'The Beggar's Opera': In The Days Of My Youth
31. 'The Beggar's Opera': A Curse Attends That Woman's Love
32. 'The Beggar's Opera': Come, Sweet Lass
33. 'The Beggar's Opera': Hither, Dear Husband
34. 'The Beggar's Opera': Which Way Shall I Turn Me?
35. 'The Beggar's Opera': The Charge Is Prepared
36. 'The Beggar's Opera': Dance Of Prisoners In Chains
37. 'The Beggar's Opera': Would I Might Be Hang'd
38. 'The Beggar's Opera': Finale: Thus I Stand Like The Turk
39. Lionel and Clarissa: Medley

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Ruby, My Dear Richard Galliano New York Trio Manufacturer: Video Arts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007MCI88 Release Date: 2005-05-02

Tracks:

1. Ruby, My Dear
2. Insidieuse
3. Historia de un Amor
4. Bohemia After Dark
5. Gnossienne N 1
6. Teulada
7. Naia
8. Spleen
9. Waltz for Nicky

Average customer rating: Fantastic trio album

Ruby My Dear Kenny Drew Manufacturer: Steeplechase ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000027UF7 Release Date: 1996-10-29

Tracks:

1. Bassment
2. Ruby, My Dear
3. Gentle Rain
4. Ending
5. Sunspots
6. No Slippin' [#]

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic trio album.......2003-02-19

I know, probably to find this album will not be an easy task, anyway I want to put down some tribute words for this fantastic 1989 Steeplechase release. This is a spectacular trio album. 6 tunes, this is the order. 1 Bassment. An original by Kenny Drew, simply a be bop blues with a bridge, fast and hard as a fist. 2 Ruby my dear. A marvellous rendition of the be bop ballad by Monk. 3 Gentle rain. A big interpretation of a splendid bossa from Luis Bonfa. 4 Ending. A really tender and open ballad, on the modal side. 5 Sunspots. A long chopenesque solo piano introduction, than a cool swinger from the Austin Wells pen. 6 No slippin'. Last but not least this Kenny Drew original at killer tempo. Kenny Drew, Clifford Jarvis (d), David Friesen(db). If you find it, don't lose this great example of extra fine piano trio. I listen to this one a lot, and I have more than 3000 jazz cds. You can believe me.

Average customer rating: A nice concept, not always consistently carried out, but an enjoyable survey nonetheless Tasty little survey

The American Innovator Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Tangos | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Adams | Adams, John | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Griffes | Griffes, Charles T. | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Nancarrow | Nancarrow, Conlon | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000E55N Release Date: 1993-10-12

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A nice concept, not always consistently carried out, but an enjoyable survey nonetheless.......2007-06-07

"The American Innovator", mind you, and not "innovators", as if, beyond a haphazard and motley collection of individuals, there was a particularly American compositional strain in favor of innovation - and maybe there is. The sheer geographical distance from Europe possibly made it easier for American composers (such as Cowell and Cage) to reject the weight of European tradition, and the widespread sentiment, arising after World War I, that the United States was a new major power that stood on its own and owed nothing to its European ancestors, worked in the same direction.

Of course one is always tempted to discuss the contents of such a collection, both for what it includes and for what it leaves aside. Young George Antheil and George Crumb - two essential American innovators, I think - are absent. But then to include Griffes' Debussysms is far-fetched - unless you consider that anything that strayed from the Salon romanticism of an Amy Beach or a Horatio Parker is "innovative". What then is an "American innovator"? Is it, as the notes put it, one of those "outsiders who consciously shun the dominant European-oriented culture" and are "isolated from the mainstream"? But Ives, the unquestionable epitome of the American Innovator, could dynamite the European traditional only because he was so deeply steeped in it, through the teachings of his professor Horatio Parker at Yale. And the American serialists, such as Babbitt, far from shuning the European model, took on the compositional "system" invented by Schoenberg and applied by Webern and pushed it to its limits. So maybe an American Innovator is just an innovator that happens to be American, or just an American that happens to be featured on this disc (part of a tryptich that includes American Virtuoso and The American Romantic), offering an enjoyable selection of rarely performed and recorded 20th century piano pieces.

It is an amusing test to try and forget the track listing and even the composers' names, and try and recognize them from their compositions. Ornstein is easy; once you've heard his "A la Chinoise" from circa 1918 (for instance by Marthanne Verbit on Valentines or by Marc-André Hamelin on Piano Music: Suicide on an Airplane / La Chinoise), you can hardly forget it. Feinberg plays it excellently, with dynamism and kaleidoscopic colors.

2. Clockwork repetitive chime-like piano over child-like, dreamy harmonies? No other than John Adams (China Gates, 1977). From Ornstein to Adams, apparently the American Innovator is inspired by China.

3. Muscular and angry short etude with strong off-beat accents, rising from the depths to the heights of the keyboard and back? Ruth Crawford's Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930).

4. Mesmerisingly nostalgic and dreamy strummed strings: Cowell evidently (Aeolian Harp, circa 1923).

5. Pointillistic serial piano with pointillistic tape sounds spaced-out stereophonically, sounding like a cliché of contemporary music from the sixties (but quite fascinating nonetheless). Would that be Babbitt? Ooops! Sorry, it was already 1970, it was Davidovsky (a Babbitt pupil, nonetheless), it was his Synchronisms No. 6, and it would possibly make a good sonic counterpoint to some Jackson Pollocks drips (or do you prefer Mondrian's abstract canvasses?).

6. A tango. I know Astor Piazzola is not on this disc. Ah, yes, Harbison, "Tango Seen from Ground Level" (1991). Not very significant, I must say, and so much the liner notes admit, but reveal that it was written for the birth of Alan Feinberg's son - "and birth is always an innovation".

7. Debussy dreaminess? Sure, Griffes: "White Peacock" from the Three Roman Sketches (1915). There is more American and more innovative, I should think - even in Griffes' own Piano Sonata.

8. Another pointillistic serial post-Webern "clonk-clonk", without tape this time: is it now Babbitt? Well, yes it is (Playing for Time, quite remarkable for its serial radicalism, as it was written as early as 1938, when the composer was 22).

9. A Simple folk-like tune of Celtic tinge over sweet-sounding clustered chords: here's another Cowell (Exultation - 1919).

10. Jagged rhythms and frenetic counterpoint, sounding like a boogie-woogie on cocaine or a player piano gone berserk? Unmistakably Nancarrow (his Prelude from 1935).

11. And again another pointillistic serial "clonk-clonk" - you'd think someone was trying to monkey the animated variation from Webern's Opus 27. Now who other than Babbitt among the American serialists was represented on the disc? Ah ah, good ear! It is another Babbitt, and a Serial Tango to boot (It Takes Twelve to Tango, 1984).

12. Now comes something like "dissonant counterpoint" in stern mood. Is Ruggles represented on the disc? Nope, a check indicates that it is "Vestiges", one of Cowell's "non-celtic" compositions, from 1920 - but I wasn't so far out: as Carol Oja indicates in her seminal book on the American modernists in the 1920s (Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s), there were strong stylistic as well as personal ties between Cowell; Ruggles and Dane Rudhyard, another American Innovator not represented here.

13. Machinistic rhythms, prepared piano sounding like a mixture between Balinese ritual music and a crazy array of struck boxes, cans, metal rods, and a possible sonic accompaniment to a sculpture of Jean Tinguely? Cage's prepared piano of course (Bachanale, his first composition for prepared piano, from 1940).

14. Massive chordal writing in polyrhythms and polytonality, leading to zany ragtimes and demented take offs from American popular tunes (including Dixie)? Ives naturally (Etude # 20 probably from 1908).

15. More Debussy watery ripples: Griffes' "The Fountain of Acqua Paola" (1916), another Roman Sketch.

16. Brutal onslaught in jagged rhythms. Nancarrow without the playfulness. I pass on this one. No wonder, it was Ralph Shapey's "Seven" (1963), hardly a staple of the piano literature, even for modernist aficionados such as myself. By the way, it is supposed to be for piano four hands, but we are not told whose are the two additional hands playing on the disc: presumably Feinberg's own in re-recording.

17. Cool Jazz in a smoked-up Club around 11 pm. Thelonious Monk, "an odd bedfellow with Babbitt and Davidovsky" indeed, to quote again the notes. But for Jazz, it is somewhat innovative, I guess.

Tasty little survey.......2004-12-19

Alan Feinberg is one of the finest pianists interpreting contemporary music today. Anything he does deserves a listen. This album is a little survey of mostly mid to late 20th Century piano music. And it is a delight. It covers a variety of styles from jazz age through serialism and even a little minimalism. Many pieces recorded here are not to be found elsewhere. It is a shame that this has gone out of print. Get a used copy if you can you will not regret it. Perhaps some visionary record company can re-release it. Do you hear me New World Records, Naxos?

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Ruby My Dear Thelonious Monk Manufacturer: Original Jazz Singer ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000FKO4C0 Release Date: 2006-09-27

Tracks:

1. Suburban Eyes
2. Humph
3. Thelonious
4. Evonce
5. Evidence
6. Mysterioso
7. Epistrophy
8. Well You Needn't
9. Introspection
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It
11. Ruby My Dear
12. April in Paris
13. Off Minor
14. Who Knows
15. In Walked Bud
16. 'Round Midnight
17. Monk's Mood
18. Straight No Chaser
19. Four in One
20. Four in One [Alternate Take]
21. Willow Weep for Me
22. Ask Me Now
23. Eronel

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Ruby My Dear Thelonious Monk ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000RLW9GA

Product Description

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was an exceptional performer and composer and a unique artist in the jazz scene: his style was already evident in early work with the Cootie Williams Orchestra ("'Round midnight" later became a standard) and as a pianist with Coleman Hawkins. Monk did some recordings in the late 1940s and also some work with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, but his most prolific period was after 1955 (the following year he started playing with a quartet that included John Coltrane). Monk spent amore than 15 years recording and performing and after joining the Giants of Jazz group in 1971, retired permanently in 1973. 1 Off Minor 2 'Round Midnight 3 Thelonious 4 Well, You Needn't 5 Ruby My Dear 6 Epistrophy 7 Evidence 8 Nice Work If You Can Get It 9 Mysterioso 10 Who Knows 11 Monk's Mood 12 Suburban Eyes 13 Evonce 14 Ask Me Now 15 Criss Cross 16 Straight No Chaser

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Ruby My Dear Thelonious Monk Manufacturer: Fruit Tree Italy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CSULYU Release Date: 2006-07-04

Tracks:

1. Suburban Eyes
2. Humph
3. Thelonious
4. Evonce
5. Evidence
6. Mysterioso
7. Epistrophy
8. Well You Needn't
9. Introspection
10. Nice Work If You Can Get It
11. Ruby My Dear
12. April in Paris
13. Off Minor
14. Who Knows
15. In Walked Bud
16. 'Round Midnight
17. Monk's Mood
18. Straight No Chaser
19. Four in One
20. Four in One [Alternate Take]
21. Willow Weep for Me
22. Ask Me Now
23. Eronel

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Piano Solo Manufacturer: Azbuka ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00074ZBE4

Product Description

18 tracks include three albums - Thelonious himself, Thelonious monk in San Francisco and Solo Monk.

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