Solo Piano (Tommy Flanagan album)

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Solo Piano
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Studio album by
Tommy Flanagan
Released2005
Recorded1974
Genre Jazz
Label Storyville
Tommy Flanagan chronology
The Tommy Flanagan Trio
(1960)		Solo Piano
(2005)		 The Tommy Flanagan Tokyo Recital
(1975)
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Solo Piano is an album by jazz pianist Tommy Flanagan. It was recorded in 1974 and released in 2005 by Storyville Records.

Contents

Background and recording

Prior to the release of Solo Piano, the 1977 album Alone Too Long had been believed to be Flanagan's first solo piano recording. [2] Tracks 1-11 of Solo Piano were recorded in Zurich in 1974, when he was vocalist Ella Fitzgerald's pianist. [2] Tracks 12-20 were recorded at an unknown date by another pianist, who critic Ken Dryden has suggested was Adam Makowicz. [1]

Flanagan played bebop numbers and standards on the album. [2] These include "Con Alma". [1]

Release

The album was released on CD by Storyville Records in 2005. [3] Storyville removed the CD from the catalog after it was discovered that some of the tracks had been played by another pianist and added to the album by mistake. [1]

Track listing

Revised track listing

  1. "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) – 3:37
  2. "Wail" (Powell) – 2:39
  3. "Isn't It Romantic" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:38
  4. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 4:47
  5. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 3:30
  6. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman) – 4:42
  7. "Passion Flower" / "Chelsea Bridge" / "The Star-Crossed Lovers" / "U.M.M.G." (Billy Strayhorn) – 11:52
  8. "Con Alma" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:07
  9. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 3:27
  10. "Ruby, My Dear" (Thelonious Monk) – 3:03
  11. "Lover" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:48

Note

Original track listing

  1. "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Bud Powell) – 3:37
  2. "Wail" (Powell) – 2:39
  3. "Isn't It Romantic" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:38
  4. "A Sleepin' Bee" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 4:47
  5. "Yesterdays" (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach) – 3:30
  6. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Benny Goodman) – 4:42
  7. "Passion Flower" / "Chelsea Bridge" / "The Star-Crossed Lovers" / "U.M.M.G." (Billy Strayhorn) – 11:52
  8. "Con Alma" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 3:07
  9. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 3:27
  10. "Ruby, My Dear" (Thelonious Monk) – 3:03
  11. "Lover" (Rodgers, Hart) – 2:48
  12. "Rosetta" (Earl Hines, Henri Woode) – 2:17
  13. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller) – 2:52
  14. "Caravan" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 1:41
  15. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronnell) – 3:27
  16. "Just One of Those Things" (Cole Porter) – 2:36
  17. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell) – 2:50
  18. "Well, You Needn't" (Monk) – 1:55
  19. "St. Louis Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 2:18
  20. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:10 [1]

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Dryden, Ken " Tommy Flanagan – Solo Piano". AllMusic. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 495. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. 1 2 Fitzgerald, Michael "Tommy Flanagan Leader Entry" jazzdiscography.com. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
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