Release Date: 23 April 2021
Label: American Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436559468275
Genres: Jazz
Description
AMERICAN JAZZ CLASSICS
DAVE GRUSIN: SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING + PIANO, STRINGS AND MOONLIGHT
FIRST TIME ON CD, LIMITED EDITION IN SPECIAL SIX-PANEL DIGIPACK WITH INSIDE BOOKLET
Eighty-six years old at this writing, American composer, arranger, producer and pianist Dave Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work – including an Academy Award and ten Grammy Awards – and was the co-founder of GRP Records.
Presented here in their entireties are Grusin's first and second LPs as a leader, A Jazz Version of the Broadway Hit 'Subways Are for Sleeping' (Epic LN- 3829) and 'Piano, Strings and Moonlight': The Many Moods of Dave Grusin' (Epic BN-26023). The former, recorded in a trio format with bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Don Lamond, focuses on selections from the Broadway musical Subways Are for Sleeping. The latter is a collection of standards (plus the original tune "Sara Jane") and features the trio (with Ossie Johnson on drums replacing Lamond) with the addition of strings arranged and conducted by Grusin himself.
DAVE GRUSIN, piano on all tracks, plus:
1-9: Subways Are for Sleeping MILT HINTON, bass; DON LAMOND, drums. New York, November 8 & 9, 1962.
10-21: Piano, Strings and Moonlight: The Many Moods of Dave Grusin
MILT HINTON, bass; OSSIE JOHNSON, drums, plus string section arranged and conducted by Dave Grusin. New York, May 18-22 & June 23, 1962
Tracklisting
Thelonious Monk
Ella Fitzgerald
Lester Young & Oscar Peterson
Miles Davis
Miles Davis
George Russell
Teddy Wilson Trio
Duke Ellington
David Rose
Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin
