Salamander Pie (Stereo Hybrid SACD) [Enhanced] [Hybrid SACD] [Live]

Salamander Pie (Stereo Hybrid SACD) [Enhanced] [Hybrid SACD] [Live]

ASIN: B0000500CV

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Jay Loenhart, Acoustic Bass & Vocals Mike Renzi, Piano This album was originally recorded in 1983 direct to a Mitsubishi X-80 Digtal Recorder at a sampling rate of 50.4KHz. This is an SACD remaster that sounds just like the original master tape.

Tracks:

Look Down Off A Bridge
Robert Frost
Drink No More
Sometimes I Think
Jujubes
Caribbean Island
Flight 861
Salamander Pie
Let the Flower Grow
Beat My Dog
Chanticler
Giant Flies
Kentucky Wild Flower
Momma Don't You Think
Goodbye Miami
Uncle Jim
Doublecross

Album Description

Jay Loenhart, Acoustic Bass & Vocals Mike Renzi, Piano This album was originally recorded in 1983 direct to a Mitsubishi X-80 Digtal Recorder at a sampling rate of 50.4KHz. This is an SACD remaster that sounds just like the original master tape.

Customer Reviews:

Lightweight, well humored jazz.......2006-11-10

Full of irony, humor and a bit fatalistic at times...great way to understand Jay Leonhart. I like the homemade feeling of the songs, something you create when you are in a fun good mood...maybe with a Scotch or two on your mind. Introoduced to me by a good friend a long time ago...hope you like it too.

Witty lyrics and stunning audio!.......2002-08-16

I've owned this DMP album for many years and get a kick out of the lyrics every time I play the album. If you're looking for serious lyrics, look elsewhere.

Tracks:

Look Down Off A Bridge
Robert Frost
Drink No More
Sometimes I Think
Jujubes
Caribbean Island
Flight 861
Salamander Pie
Let The Flower Grow
Beat My Dog
Chantecler
Giant Flies
Kentucky Wild Flower
Momma Don't You Think...
Goodbye Miami
Uncle Jim
Doublecross

Customer Reviews:

Spare, Eccentric and Brilliant.......2000-06-16

This CD was recommended to me several years ago, and it's become one of my little-known treasures. Leonhart is a well-traveled jazz bassist who seems to have met his share of interesting characters over the years. He tells us about them and their often-quirky surroundings, in songs that are wildly clever, yet often poignant. While the album's musical component is downright sparse - Leonhart and his stand-up bass, and occasionally a pianist - the songs' wit and insight transcend the minimalist approach.

Some of Leonhart's melodies are memorable, but the lyrics are clearly king here. It may be a cliche these days, but Leonhart is a terrific storyteller. He's often the luckless schlub stuck in some strange hell-hole, staring at strippers or sitting at the bar with nothing better to do than watch flies mating on the wall. He bases an entire lovelorn poem on a buxom girl who walks by on an airplane (the hilarious "Flight 861") and introduces us to his deliciously dysfunctional family ("Momma Don't You Think" and "Uncle Jim"). Even his quick little ditties ("Jujubes," "Salamander Pie" and "Beat My Dog") are notable for their imagery and humor.

Leonhart is at his best when creating outlandish scenarios, as in "Goodbye Miami" and "Doublecross." The former tells the story of global warming gradually melting the Earth's ice caps and washing away Florida (when was the last time you heard a song about this?). It also contains one of the great opening lines of all time - "Carbon monoxide is spewing from cars." Still, for my money the best song on the album is "Doublecross," which creates a bizarre cloak-and-dagger tableau that features a marvelous refrain:

Change the color of your eyes

Pack up all your lies

Put on your disguise

And get the hell out of here

This album isn't for everyone or every occasion - sometimes you want more music with your music - but for well-written, often humorous songs, this CD is hard to beat.

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