I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook

I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook

ASIN: B00076YP3U

Track Listings

1. Beyond the Sea

2. Charade

3. My Buddy

4. Just in Time

5. When I Look in Your Eyes

6. Shadow of Your Smile

7. I Was There

8. I'm Beginning to See the Light

9. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

10. When Your Lover Has Gone

11. That's All

12. My Funny Valentine

13. All By Myself

14. Something in Your Smile

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Average customer rating:

A thoughtful, very enjoyable tribute

I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook
Roger Kellaway
Manufacturer: Ipo Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00076YP3U
Release Date: 2005-01-25

Tracks:

Beyond the Sea
Charade
My Buddy
Just in Time
When I Look in Your Eyes
Shadow of Your Smile
I Was There
I'm Beginning to See the Light
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
When Your Lover Has Gone
That's All
My Funny Valentine
All By Myself
Something in Your Smile

Customer Reviews:

A thoughtful, very enjoyable tribute.......2005-03-28

First things first: Amazon's catalogue has the title wrong at the moment: it's _I Was There: Roger Kellaway Plays from the Bobby Darin Songbook_. And Kellaway _was_ there: he was Darin's pianist for a time in the late 1960s. This tribute was prompted by his work as a music consultant on Spacey's recent Darin biopic (which I haven't seen); it's mostly tunes he played with Darin--classic jazz standards (no "Splish Splash"!), a couple tunes from _Dr Doolittle_ (Darin recorded an album of songs from _Dr Doolittle_, with Kellaway's arrangements), plus the title-track, a Kellaway original. As anyone who's been following Kellaway will expect, this is a very fine solo piano album--a welcome return to jazz from a musician whose activities have often taken him far afield (he's also a classical composer, a film scorer & pop pianist), & I believe it's his first solo piano release since his Maybeck Recital Hall CD on Concord over a decade ago. He's a dazzling player--like a very modern Dave McKenna in a way (even William Bolcom, maybe), with his ability to combine stride and ragtime figures with an absolutely modern sensibility (listen to the wacky polytonality of "I'm Beginning to See the Light" for instance). And he does it all with a lightness and exactness that puts a player like Jaki Byard to shame. On occasion he can go overboard--sometimes this music is _too_ rich--but that's a minor quibble: he's still quite some piano player. He's no singer, though: there's a throwaway track at the end where he adds vocals, & it's pretty dodgy. But that's a forgiveable indulgence given the quality of the rest of the album.

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