Introspectivo

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Introspectivo
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 14, 2005 [1]
RecordedRecorded December 11–12, 2004 [2]
Genre Jazz
Length73:55 [2]
Label M&L Music
Producer Brent Fischer, Juan Carlos Paz y Puente, & Eugenio Toussaint
Clare Fischer chronology
Bert van den Brink invites Clare Fischer
(2000)
Introspectivo
(2005)
A Family Affair
(2006)
Professional ratings
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Introspectivo is a studio album by American composer/arranger/pianist Clare Fischer, recorded in December 2004 and released in October 2005 on the Mexican label, M&L Music. [1] [2] Composed largely of previously unrecorded original compositions unearthed by his son Brent, [4] this would be the 76-year-old Fischer's fifth and final strictly solo piano recording. [5]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Clare Fischer except where indicated. [1]

  1. "Song for Eugenio" – 6:15
  2. "Quiet Reflections" – 2:50
  3. "Western Airlines" – 2:53
  4. "Love's Walk" – 5:41
  5. "Sleep Sweet Child" – 1:18
  6. Ellington Medley ("Sentimental Lady" – Duke Ellington, "Daydream" – Billy Strayhorn, "Satin Doll" – Johnny Mercer, B. Strayhorn, D. Ellington) – 6:40
  7. "Elegy" – 3:03
  8. "A Wish Come True" – 1:03
  9. "Warmeland" (Swedish traditional) – 4:42
  10. "Marcella" – 2:00
  11. "Bells" – 3:30
  12. "Silenciosa" (Mario Ruiz Armengol) – 1:44
  13. "House on Summit/Children at Play" – 3:45
  14. "Vanessa" – 1:50
  15. "Eternally Yours" – 3:52
  16. "Soñe" (Mario Ruiz Armengol) – 1:38
  17. "Barboleta" – 3:30
  18. "Waiting for Jack's Plane" – 1:31
  19. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein) – 3:35
  20. "Donna Lee" (Charlie Parker, Phil Woods [sic]) – 0:38
  21. "Ice Crystals" – 3:17
  22. "Don't Ever Leave" – 1:40
  23. "Coming Home" – 1:52
  24. "Fairyland" (Glen Hurlbut, Bob Thompson and Bill Baldwin) – 4:57

Personnel

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Introspectivo". WorldCat. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
  3. "Reprint of Jim Santella's January 2006 review from Jazz Improv Magazine ". CD Baby. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
  4. Album Notes by Brent Fischer. CD Baby. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
  5. "The State of His Art". WorldCat. Retrieved 2013-02-28. See also: