Improvisations to Music

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Improvisations to Music
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 15, 1958
Genre Comedy
Length34:07
Label Mercury Records
Producer Jack Tracy
Nichols and May chronology
Improvisations to Music
(1958)
An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May
(1960)

Improvisations to Music is the first comedy album by Nichols and May. It was released on December 15, 1958, by Mercury Records. [1]

The sketches were recorded improvised along with the accompaniment of Marty Rubenstein on piano. The album peaked at 39 on the Billboard 200. [2]

The "Cocktail Party" sketch" featured an alternate take,in which Nichols and May disliked, because the pianist stopped playing the piano for 30 seconds. The sketch was re-recorded with an alternation of the dialogue, which appeared on the other copies of the "Improvisations to Music" album. The corrected sketch was issued on the "In Retrospect" album.

Track listing

  1. Cocktail Piano (4:37)
  2. Mysterioso (4:38)
  3. Second Piano Concerto (The Dentist) (4:57)
  4. Everybody's Doing It Now (2:40)
  5. Bach to Bach (5:28)
  6. Tango (2:28)
  7. Sonata for Piano and Celeste (5:37)
  8. Chopin (3:42)

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References

  1. Anon. (December 15, 1958). "Sold Out". Billboard . p. 17. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  2. "Lindsay Planer review of Improvisations to Music". Allmusic.