My New Old Friend

My New Old Friend

My New Old Friend

ASIN: B0007Y08ZQ

Track Listings
 
1. You Must Believe in Spring
2. Barcelona
3. Highway
4. All the Things You Are
5. My New Old Friend
6. Body and Soul
7. One More Once
8. Vienna
9. Wichita Lineman
10. Stick Slap
11. Smile

My New Old Friend,Alan Pasqua,Cryptogramophone,Jazz,Pop,Post-Bop
My New Old Friend
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • An underrated GEM - jazz piano trio at its best!
  • So beautiful it brought me to tears...
  • I guess ECM doesn't have a lock on gorgeous piano trios after all
 My New Old Friend
Alan Pasqua
Manufacturer: Cryptogramophone
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007Y08ZQ
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

  1. You Must Believe In Spring
  2. Barcelona
  3. Highway
  4. All The Things Your Are
  5. My New Old Friend
  6. Body And Soul
  7. One More Once
  8. Vienna
  9. Wichita Lineman
  10. Stick Slap
  11. Smile

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An underrated GEM - jazz piano trio at its best!.......2005-08-10

This is truly remarkable music from an outstanding piano trio.

After the first listening if this CD I thought it was pleasant ... but nothing special. I found myself a few days later recalling several haunting melodic lines but forgot where I had heard them. I eventually remembered and relistened to this CD and it was a revelation.

This is one of the best piano jazz trio CD I have heard (for taste comparison I treasure all of Bill Evans - of course, as well as most, not all, Keith Jarrett, and some modern trios such as EST, Vassilis Tsabropoulos (Achirana is still the best ever piano trio CD), John Taylor (all of his ECM recordings with Peter Erskine are golden) and the underrated and rarely heard Richard Bierach.

This is Pasqua's best trio recording, with the unbelievable Peter Erskine on drums and the mesmerizing Darek Oles on bass. Don't be fooled by the quiet and polished arrangements, this is deep and thoughtful music. While it may not boil over with loud exuberance, it will resonate in your heart and mind with subtle afterthoughts - now that is musical magic.

There is not a bad piece on the whole set, with originals and standards with originality. Too bad there's no music samples on Amazon but you can find them elsewhere, such as CDUniverse for example.

I can't imagine anyone regretting this purchase.

5 out of 5 stars So beautiful it brought me to tears..........2005-08-02

I love this album because Alan Pasqua is so passionate about his music. Even his improv is constant melodies.

5 out of 5 stars I guess ECM doesn't have a lock on gorgeous piano trios after all.......2005-06-25

Here's a homegrown session everyone taken by the beauty and delicacy of Tord Gustavsen, Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Marcin Wasilewski, EST, and other European piano trios can be proud of. With My New Old Friend, Alan Pasqua has produced a disc that in many ways surpasses the best the Europeans have to offer.

Pasqua, though not that well known in jazz circles, despite his having produced a handful of accomplished discs on smaller West Coast labels and having been a mainstay (on synth!) of Tony Williams' 70s band, here proves that he deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the foremost jazz pianists of the day. For example, it's fascinating to compare his take of Charlie Chaplin's standard, "Smile," with Brad Mehldau's from his recent disc, Anything Goes. Whereas Mehldau brilliantly mines the piece's inherent irony, Pasqua goes for an entirely different feeling, a kind of wistfulness bordering on tragedy, lending the tune an almost unbearable poignancy. Playing the familiar melody with the lightest and most tender touch, he undergirds it with dark, dense, and dissonant chord voicings, creating a mood of shattered serenity and faded love. Combine that with the extremely subtle bass and drum stylings of Messrs Darek Oles and Peter Erskine, and you have a revelatory reworking of a famous standard.

The three other standards, "You Must Believe in Spring," "All the Things You Are," and "Body and Soul," are each handled with a similar delicacy and attention to detail. Indeed, the trio locks in with such a very high level of musical conversation and group interaction that it almost seems as if they've been playing together forever. Pasqua and Erskine have shared the bandstand and recording studio for some time now, but newcomer Oles, fast becoming a mainstay on the West Coast jazz scene, adds an entirely new and welcome dimension.

The six Pasqua originals give nothing away to the standards. It is as a composer, perhaps even more than as a leader and instrumentalist, that Pasqua makes his strongest impression. His tunes have a dancing freshness and lilt about them that both immediately ingratiates and makes a lasting impression. That, perhaps, is the disc's greatest accomplishment: it is not only beautiful, but memorable. One keeps wanting to return to it to recapture the wonderful moods it creates, even as it regularly produces music of consequence--a rare and welcome accomplishment in any category of musical endeavor.

Highest recommendation, and Kudos to Cryptogramophone for getting such glorious music from these veterans.
Carmen (Sung in English)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • English is an asset and a drawback
  • You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English
  • A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!
  • I love Carmen!
 Carmen (Sung in English)
Bizet , Bardon , Gavin , Plazas , Magee , and Parry
Manufacturer: Chandos
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007JGRN
Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

  1. Prelude
  2. In The Plaza
  3. Just Look At That Delicious Morsel
  4. Here Come Our New Soldier Boys
  5. Jose! There Was A Girl Here Looking For You Just Now
  6. Off With You Old Soldier Boys
  7. Corporal! Sir!
  8. We Have Heard The Bell Summon Us To Meet Here
  9. Ah, Just Look!
  10. But Why Hasn't She Come, Our Carmencita?
  11. Love's A Bird Wild As Any Rebel
  12. Carmen! We Will Follow You High And Low!
  13. The Cheek Of It!
  14. Give Me News Of My Mother!
  15. Your Dear Mother And I Were Leaving Church This Morning
  16. I See My Mother's Face!
  17. Wait A Moment - I'm Going To Read The Letter
  18. Come And Help
  19. So, Corporal: Tell Me What Happened
  20. Well, Carmencita: What Do You Have To Say For Yourself?
  21. Where Are You Taking Me?
  22. There's An Old Bar In The City
  23. Careful - It's Lieutenant!
  24. Entr'acte
  25. From Far Away Mysterious Sounds
  26. Bravo, Bravo! More! Keep Dancing!
  27. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
  28. Who's That? It's Escamillo, The Bullfighter From Granada
  29. Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
  30. You're Most Kind
  31. We'll Come With You, Senor Torero
  32. Toreador, Be Ready!
  33. At Last! We Got Rid Of Them As Quickly As We Could
  34. There's A Little Job That We're Starting!
  35. Being In Love Is Not A Reason

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  1. To Bid You Welcome To Our Bar
  2. La La La La La La La La...
  3. Back To Camp!... Go At Once!
  4. That Flow'r You Threw To Me I Treasured
  5. No, It's Not Love At All!
  6. Hello! Carmen!
  7. Lieutenant Fair, It's True
  8. The Sky Above The Open Road
  9. Entr'acte
  10. Keep Going, Dear Old Friend, Kep Going!
  11. Right! Let's Stop For A While
  12. Shuffle! Cut Them!
  13. In Vain You Would Avoid The Bitter Things They're Saying
  14. You're Back!
  15. As For That Man, It Should Be Easy!
  16. Is This The Place?
  17. I Say That There's Nothing To Fear
  18. It's Him! I'm Sure It's Him Over There!
  19. Escamillo Is My Name, And I Come From Granada
  20. She Had A Lover Here
  21. Hola! Hola! Jose!
  22. You Should Take Care, Carmen
  23. Alas! Jose, Your Mother Is Ill
  24. Entr'acte
  25. A Few Cuartos! A Few Cuartos!
  26. Here They Come! Here They Come!
  27. If You Love Me, Carmen
  28. It's You! It's Me!
  29. Viva! Viva! What A Corrida!

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars English is an asset and a drawback.......2004-07-20

The best thing about this recording of Carmen is the libretto. Conductor David Parry penned this facile and dramatic English translation. He avoids the pitfalls of literal translation to achieve an idiomatic flow that matches the rhythm of the original lyrics. I use this as a reference libretto for any of the French Carmens.

Unfortunately, the performance suffers from being sung in English. The singers declaim their parts with such proper British diction that Carmen comes across as a school marm. The spoken dialog is delivered beat for deliberate beat and is dripping with reverb. It makes the plaza, tavern and mountain pass all sound like a sewer pipe.

This is a good first Carmen for someone trying to understand the work. The libretto itself is a good investment for further listening. For an enjoyable performance with an emphasis on character and action, I recommend Regina Resnik on the London Double Decker set.

5 out of 5 stars You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English.......2004-02-09

What a perfect introduction to opera. This newly released recording will surely get you hooked into opera. Carmen, a French opera by Georges Bizet, is the most recognizable and most popular in the opera world. It's famous melodies- the overture, the Habanera, The Toreador Song have all been featured in everything from cellular phone ring tones to Superbowl Commercial (last year's Superbowl with The "Opera In English" label has been making Italian operas into English for a number of years now. Also on the market are Verdi's La Traviata in English (with soprano Valerie Masterson as Violetta) Handel's Julius Caesar with Janet Baker and even Wagner's epic Ring Of The Nibeling sung in English. This is a terrific recording and I highly recommend it if you want to get into opera. Listen to this version first and then try the real, original French version Bizet had written. Patricia Bardon is sensational, sexy and dramatic as Carmen.

The real strength of this version is the dynamic drama. With the advantage of being sung in English, we get better insight on characters' emotions and motives, and we understand the drama a lot better. Carmen is all about great drama. Bizet drew the plot from the French writer Prosper Merimee's dark short story. Carmen is the ultimate femme fatale- a devil-may-care, sexy Gypsy living in Spain, seduces the conservatively raised soldier Don Jose, stealing him away from his fiancee, the passive Micaela, living a life of underground smuggling and rowdy taverns. "Habanera" and "The Gypsy Song and Dance" are very expressive of Carmen's extraordinarily liberal lifestyle. Don Jose, however, has fallen deeply in love- as he shows us in his song/aria "The Flower Song". But Carmen soon becomes tired of his constancy. Don Jose wants a committed, monogamous relationship with Carmen. But Carmen will not submit to love, since she is first and foremost a carnal creature. Eventually, she falls for the handsome Toreador Escamillo. Don Jose, consumed by jealousy, stabs Carmen at a bullfight after Carmen declares her love for Escamillo and rejects Don Jose's love. Don Jose's crazed, obscessive personality shines through in the English version as well. This tragedy has been done in English before so don't think this is the first time. Back in the 50's, there was a film, starring black actors "Carmen Jones" which was treated the same way as this opera- more like an English Broadway musical and with the dubbed singing voice of Marilyn Horne as Carmen. All in all, this recording is excellent.

5 out of 5 stars A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!.......2003-09-17

This recording really sells "Carmen" as a drama. Although I have two other recordings of this opera and have seen it performed several times, it never quite worked for me dramatically. But thanks to the fine performances, conducting, and translation here, I've become a "Carmen" convert. Producing a good English-language performance of a foreign opera, especially a warhorse like "Carmen," is much more difficult than it might appear. You need performers who not only can sing the parts (of course) but also can sing *English* and make it halfway intelligible and make it sound like English and make it dramatically convincing to English-speakers. The singers on this recording do an excellent job all around. Don't be put off if you don't recognize their names -- they are up to the task musically and (especially) in their acting. Admittedly, as with *all* English-language recordings, some passages are very hard to understand without reading along, but most of the time the words are clear and effective. I would recommend this recording to any opera beginner or opera lover, even those who normally turn up their noses at performances in translation.

4 out of 5 stars I love Carmen!.......2003-08-15

I do. I can think of no other opera with more melodic inventiveness, and few others with so sure a dramatic pulse. Carmen is popular and it thrills me to say that it is also a very good opera - not always true of popular things.

And what of this recording? Carmen sits well in English, so it is good to hear in translation, although some of the detais in the text jar. Escamillo refers to Jose as "my dear", which sounds rather peculiar, and the guide's line to Micaela: "it's not exactly inviting, is it?" sounds distinctly Middle England rather than Rural Spain. Some of the performers, not least Carmen herself, make the words work, although there are long tracts, especially with the chorus, where the language is distinctly indistinct.

The soloists are, by and large, strong. Patricia Bardon's deep, Handel-friendly voice adapts well to Carmen and she colours the music with phenomenal detail, sounding sexy and provocative from the start with an edge of pride and anger that emerges as the show goes on. She is out of her depth above the stave, though, and some extra top notes in the second act don't show her off to her best advantage. I have previously said that Julian Gavin is poorly served by recordings, though here he sounds much more even and gives a thrilling and musical performance (but his wooden spoken lines let him down). Mary Plazas is a lovely Micaela, rich-voiced and sincere (and word-perfect), but Garry Magee sounds miscast as Escamillo, lacking the ballast at the bottom of the voice to do justice to this tricky role.

The supporting cast is good (Mary Hegarty seems to do nothing but Frasquita these days!) but the really treasurable thing is the conducting. Stepping out of Italian Ottocento, David Parry turns his hand to this French Comedie with an appropriate lightness of touch. His pacing and handling of the set pieces is exemplary and the enrtractes go with a real swing.

A pleasure, then, for the Carmen naive or a novelty for the Carmen-acquainted. I nearly wrote Carmen-weary - but I don't think it's possible.
Love from Judy
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • vintage Hugh Martin score a complete delight
 Love from Judy
Original London Cast
Manufacturer: Sepia Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001BRQ96
Release Date: 2005-08-09

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  1. Introduction/Mardi Gras/I Never Dream When I'm Asleep/A Touch Of Voodoo - Adelaide Hall
  2. Love From Judy/Daddy Longlegs/What Do I See In You/Here We Are - Johnny Brandon
  3. Go And Get Your Old Banjo/Kind To Animals/I Ain't Gonna Marry - Adelaide Hall
  4. My True Love/Dum-Dum-Dum/Love From Judy - Jean Carson
  5. Bonus Track: A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Bill Lowe
  6. Bonus Track: Hug Me A Hug - Bill Lowe
  7. Bonus Track: Barrels And Barrels Of Roses - Jean Carson
  8. Bonus Track: Slow Coach - Johnny Brandon & Orchestra
  9. Bonus Track: Oodles Of Noodles - Johnny Brandon & Orchestra
  10. Bonus Track: Painting The Clouds With Sunshine - Johnny Brandon & Orchestra
  11. Bonus Track: One For The Wonder - Johnny Brandon & Orchestra
  12. Bonus Track: The Glow Worm - Johnny Brandon & Orchestra
  13. Bonus Track: I'll Be Hangin' Around - Johnny Brandon
  14. Bonus Track: Vanity - Adelaide Hall
  15. Bonus Track: How Many Times - Adelaide Hall
  16. Bonus Track: 'Hans Christian Andersen' - Part 1 - David Hughes
  17. Bonus Track: 'Hans Christian Andersen' - Part 2 - Gary Miller
  18. Bonus Track: 'Peter Pan' - Part 1 - Gilbert Harding
  19. Bonus Track: 'Peter Pan' - Part 2 - Hermione Gingold
  20. Bonus Track: Dancing With Someone - June Whitfield
  21. Bonus Track: Seven Lonely Days - June Whitfield
  22. Bonus Track: Bye Bye Baby - June Whitfield
  23. Bonus Track: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend - June Whitfield
  24. Bonus Track: I Ain't Gonna Marry - Eve Boswell & Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars vintage Hugh Martin score a complete delight.......2004-12-23

LOVE FROM JUDY, based on Jean Webster's novel 'Daddy Long Legs', is pure vintage Hugh Martin. The show never made it to Broadway, instead enjoying a sold-out London season and an extensive provincial tour.

Jean Carson played Jerusha Abbott, an orphan at the John Grier Home who is mysteriously supported by a never-named benefactor. June Whitfield, Johnny Brandon, Adelaide Hall and Bill O'Connor round out the strong leading cast. Barbara Windsor played one of the orphans (for some interesting backstage reminisces about LOVE FROM JUDY check out Barbara Windsor's autobiography 'All of Me').

The Hugh Martin-Jack Gray score is quite lovely from what is featured on this disc (the recordings were originally designed to fit 4 sides of a set of 78's). LOVE FROM JUDY runs a scant 20 minutes, so the disc has been filled out with extensive bonus material.

We get Jean Carson singing "A Kiss to Build a Dream On", "Hug Me a Hug" and "Barrels and Barrels of Roses" (on the 2 former tracks she's joined by her then-husband Bill Lowe); Johnny Brandon singing 5 numbers including his mega-hit "Glow Worm"; and Adelaide Hall singing 2 great numbers. June Whitfield sings 5 numbers including two songs from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES!

There are also selections from the Frank Loesser score of HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN; and a full-cast presentation of numbers from Disney's PETER PAN (both feature Jean Carson and Johnny Brandon).
Hey, Love: The Songs Of Mary Rodgers (1997 Original Cast)
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    		Hey, Love: The Songs Of Mary Rodgers (1997 Original Cast)

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    Binding: Audio CD

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