Release Date: 18 December 2008
Label: Spotlite Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 736598140629
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 18 December 2008
Label: Spotlite Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 736598140629
Genres: Jazz  
Description
Recorded in June 1977, this was Mick Pyne's first solo album and reissued here for the first time on CD. A programme of solo piano and cornet/piano duos, it's an album featuring popular standards performed in a way that can be simply described as 'sweet melancholy'. A great record deservedly reissued!
Mick Pyne was one of the UK's most formidable pianists. His playing with Tubby Hayes between 1966 and 1973 is probably his most highly regarded (he can be heard on the Tubby Hayes reissues from Universal), but he was also a commanding figure with Humphrey Lyttelton between 1973 and 1985. He later worked with Georgie Fame, and Hefty Jazz lead by Keith Smith and Charlie Watts. Mick Pyne died in 1995 at the young age of 54.
Personnel: Mick Pyne (solo piano & piano/cornet duets)
Tracklisting
Charlie Parker
Don Rendell
Laura Collins
Don Rendell Five
Mark Latimer
Al Haig Trio
Big Bill Broonzy
Don Rendell
Wayne Shorter
Shelly Manne
Cannonball Adderley Sextet
Anita O'Day & Cal Tjader
John Williamson
John Zorn
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Sun Ra & His Arkestra