けっこうマイ・ブームになっている「Eddie Higgins(エディ・ヒギンズ)」サン...♪
なんでも『これまでヴィーナスにレコーディングしてきた数々のスタンダード・ソング以外の埋もれた名曲、有名曲からヒギンズ自身が選んだBest50曲の「ロマンス4部作」(!)。シリーズ4作で合計50曲のラヴ・スタンダードが勢揃いしました!』とのことで...♪
最初の2枚を聴いた限りなかなかのモノなので(特に『A Lovely Way...』のほうが良い気がする...^^)、本日の記事は、当該4枚の収録曲を整理する意味も込めて...(^^)
■ Eddie Higgins Trio / A Fine Romance (Venus Records, Japan, TKCV35385, 2006)
01. I Concentrate On You 04:50 (Cole Porter)
02. Yesterdays 03:46 (Jerome Kern, Otto Harbach)
03. A Fine Romance 05:18 (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
04. Girl Talk 03:30 (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup)
05. September In The Rain 04:49 (Harry Warren, Al Dubin)
06. I Fall In Love Too Easily 04:14 (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
07. Gypsy In My Soul 03:37 (Clay A. Boland, M. Jaffe)
08. Born To Be Blue 05:35 (Mel (Melvin Howard) Torme, Robert Wells)
09. Here's That Rainy Day 03:21 (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
10. Exactly Like You 04:36 (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields)
11. Willow Weep For Me 06:54 (Ann Ronell)
12. I'll Remember April 04:23 (Gene DePaul, Don Raye, Patricia Johnston)
13. In Love In Vain 06:35 (Jerome Kern, Leo Robin)
■ Eddie Higgins Trio / A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening (Venus Records, Japan, TKCV35386, 2007)
01. I Could Write A Book 04:27 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
02. Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry 05:55 (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)
03. April In Paris 04:16 (Vernon Duke, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg)
04. Polka Dot And Moonbeams 05:36 (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
05. A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening 04:07 (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson)
06. Gentle Rain 04:40 (Luiz Floriano Bonfa)
07. I Get A Kick Out Of You 05:29 (Cole Porter)
08. Serenade in Blue 05:00 (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
09. Why Aws I Born 03:30 (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
10. Come Rain Or Come Shine 03:53 (Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen)
11. The Way You Look Tonight 04:55 (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields)
12. Moonlight Serenade 05:04 (Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish)
12. It Might As Well Be Spring 03:38 (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
■ Eddie Higgins Trio / Secret Love (Venus Records, Japan, TKCV35409, 2007)
01. Secret Love 04:26 (Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster)
02. Ghost Of A Chance 06:01 (Bing Crosby, Ned Washington, Victor Popular Young)
03. Star Eyes 04:33 (Don Raye, Gene DePaul)
04. Round Midnight 05:36 (Bernard D. "Bernie" Hanighen, Thelonious Sphere Monk, Cootie (Charles) Williams)
05. East Of The Sun 04:51 (Brooks Bowman)
06. Always 04:22 (Irving Berlin)
07. Blue And Sentimental 05:59 (William "Count" Basie, Jerry Livingston, Mack David)
08. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart 06:04 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Irving Mills, John Redmond, Henry Nemo)
09. But Beautiful 04:19 (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
10. Cheek To Cheek 04:03 (Irving Berlin)
11. But Not For Me 05:24 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
12. Avalon 04:22 (Vincent Rose, Al Jolson, Buddy G. DeSylva)
■ Eddie Higgins Trio / You Are Too Beautiful (Venus Records, Japan, TKCV35413, 2007)
01. A Nightingale Sang In Barkeley Square 04:51 (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin)
02. All The Things You Are 05:58 (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
03. Lover Man 05:03 (Roger Ramirez, James Edward Davis, Jimmy Sherman)
04. Like Someone In Love 06:36 (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke)
05. Historia de Una Amor 04:10 (Carlos Eleta Almaran)
06. Anything Goes 04:43 (Cole Porter)
07. In A Sentimental Mood 04:44 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Irving Mills, Manny Kurtz)
08. In The Still Of The Night 04:33 (Cole Porter)
09. Georgia On My Mind 04:54 (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell)
10. Blue Bossa 04:15 (Kenny Dorham, Beverly Kelly)
11. You Are Too Beautiful 04:55 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
12. I'll Be Seeing You 05:08 (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal)
Personal : Eddie Higgins (piano) , Jay Leonhart (bass) , Mark Taylor (drums)
Recorded at Clinton Studios, New York City on June 18-21, 2005
と、シリーズものとあってか、メンバー、スタジオ、録音日は一緒なんですな...
というわけで、レビューは、追って書く(かも)...(笑)
そして番外編「RM'S JAZZ NOTES」にて他のアルバムの収録曲やパーソナルを確認できます(^^)
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