Description
This compilation accurately documents the manner in which Don Shirley created his own genre: jazz tinged but not really jazz, soulful, but not really soul, often reaching out into areas that were distinctively classical. Check Irving Berlin’s Blue Skies, which Shirley endows with a breath of Bach; In A Moorish Marketplace with its hint of Ravel, or the simple beauty of One For My Baby (And One For The Road), on which Shirley opts for the most economical of approaches yet provides a performance of sheer beauty, one that never wavers far from the blues.
Tracklist:
Side A:
Water Boy
Drown In My Own Tears
The Lonesome Road
Body And Soul
Blue Skies
Easy Living
Side B:
In A Moorish Marketplace
Amen
Someone To Watch Over Me
Willow Weep For Me
Stand By Me
Happy Talk
Side C:
Joshua Fit The Battle Of Jericho
Lullaby Of Birdland
Where’s My Bess
This Nearly Was Mine
These Foolish Things
Let’s Fall In Love
Side D:
I Got Rhythm
Freedom
My Funny Valentine
Adieu Madraz
Tribute To Billie Holiday
One For My Baby (And One For The Road)
