Richie Beirach - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol.19 '1992

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Armed mostly with a brace of standards yet willing to do unpredictable things
with them, Richie Beirach turns in one of the more thankfully idiosyncratic
editions of the Maybeck Recital Hall Series (this is Vol. 19). This format
allows Beirach to exploit his romantic credentials with only a nominal interest
in the usual bop formulas, and he throws in a few startling unorthodox
glissandos here and there to shake everyone up. Very often, he works
compellingly with repetitions in the left hand; the prime examples of this
include an On Green Dolphin Street, and based mostly on the same stabbing
syncopation on two notes in the left hand, a lovely now-and-then literal
rendition of Bill Evans take on Some Other Time, and a sauntering semiboogie
interpretation of All Blues. There is also a unified stream-of-consciousness
medley that opens with Over the Rainbow and winds up on In the Wee Small Hours
of the Morning, as well as a really unorthodox Round Midnight with a few
humorous surprises. A most absorbing recital, cleanly recorded.


Tracks:

01 Introductory Announcement 00:14
02 All the Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) 03:44
03 On Green Dolphin Street (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) 04:07
04 Some Other Time (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) 07:42
05 You Dont Know What Love Is (Gene DePaul, Don Raye) 06:42
06 Spring Is Here (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) 03:54
07 All Blues (Miles Davis, Oscar Brown Jr.) 04:10
08 Medley (Various) 06:03
Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg)
Small World (Jule Styne, Stepen Sondheim)
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (Bob Hilliard, David Mann)
09 Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernhard Hanighen) 06:10
10 Remember (Irving Berlin) 04:56
11 Elm (Richie Beirach) 08:12 

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