Chiaroscuro CR121
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To Fred Astaire With Love (2 Lps On 1 Cd)
Ruby Braff & George Barnes
REFERENCE: JL765
BAR CODE: 8436019587652
Ruby Braff and George Barnes formed a rich and vital partnership, recording seven studio albums between 1973 and 1975. This set presents their first and last works, two complete studio albums by the Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet in their entirety. Both appear here on CD for the first time ever and are devoted to the perennial classics by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerome Kern, plus one original by each soloist and a swing ballad treatment of the Beatles’s tune 'Here, There and Everywhere'.
Their first album, titled “The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet” (1973) includes a mixture of standard songs, plus an original by each of the soloists. For their last album together, “To Fred Astaire with Love” (1975) featured versions of songs the singer-dancer-actor had made famous in his movies.
Tracklisting:
01. CHEEK TO CHEEK (2:19)
02. THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME (3:41)
03. EASTER PARADE (2:13)
04. A SHINE ON YOUR SHOES (2:01)
05. I’M PUTTING ALL MY EGGS IN ONE BASKET (2:22)
06. THEY ALL LAUGHED (2:22)
07. BE CAREFUL, IT’S MY HEART (2:22)
08. I’M OLD FASHIONED (2:18)
09. ISN’T IT A LOVELY DAY TO BE CAUGHT IN THE RAIN (2:34)
10. TOP HAT, WHITE TIE AND TAILS (2:09)
11. OH, THAT KISS (4:01)
12. WITH TIME TO LOVE (3:22)
13. LOOKING AT YOU (4:31)
14. OLD FOLKS (2:54)
15. LIZA (4:59)
16. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE (2:06)
17. OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY (2:36)
18. NOBODY ELSE BUT YOU (5:00)
19. IT’S LIKE THE FOURTH OF JULY (3:21)
20. EVERYTHING’S GEORGE (4:41)
Total time: 62:03 min.
Tracks #1-10 originally issued in LP as "To Fred Astaire with Love" (RCA LP SF 8442). Recorded in New York City, February 3-5, 1975.
Tracks #11-20 from "The Ruby Braff-George Barnes Quartet" (Chiaroscuro CR121). Recorded in New York City, July 1973.
Personnel: Ruby Braff (cnt), George Barnes & Wayne Wright (g), Michael Moore (b on #1-10) and John Giuffrida (b on #11-20).
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Notes:
-To Fred Astaire With Love
"The final recorded collaboration between cornetist Ruby Braff and guitarist George Barnes (in a quartet with rhythm guitarist Wayne Wright and bassist Michael Moore) features concise versions of ten songs (all but one is under three minutes) introduced in the 1930s by Fred Astaire. Although this LP is not essential, the arrangements make the veteran standards (which include "Cheek to Cheek," "They Can't Take That Away from Me," "A Shine on Your Shoes" and "They All Laughed") sound fresh and lively. Astaire himself approved of the project."
Scott Yanow -All Music Guide
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