One of my favorite jazz pianists is Fred Hersch.  He's been an incredibly
prolific player in the past dozen years or so and has put out some
absolutely incredible albums.  In the mid-90's, he did a string of tribute
albums, starting with "Passion Flower," a stunningly gorgeous tribute to
Billy Strayhorn (Duke Ellington's right hand man and composer of some of
Duke's more enduring standards).  He's got an extraordinarily fluid sense of
melody.  Great, great stuff.

Another excellent current pianist is Frank Kimbrough.  He did a duo album
with vibist Joe Locke a few years ago called "Saturn's Child" that fits that
late night contemplative mood like a glove.

I'll second the Jobim suggestion as well.  "Getz/Gilberto" is a great place
to branch out from your Astrud comp (but will likely have an overlapped tune
or two).

Christopher

> -----Original Message-----
> From: audities-owner@smoe.org [mailto:audities-owner@smoe.org] On Behalf
> Of Beth2459@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:39 AM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Vince Guaraldi suggestions?
> 
> Its that time of year where I get to listen to probably one of my favorite
> albums of all time - Vince Guaraldi playing the music from The Peanuts
> Christmas
> special.
> 
>  While I could and do listen to this over and over and over and over, I
> was
> thinking that it might be good to branch out a bit.
> 
> Can anyone suggest some albums- not nec. holiday but thats OK too, in this
> same vein? Something I could listen to year round? Seems like the only
> other one
> that I listen to like this (over and over, almost like background music,
> but
> in a good way) is an Astrud Gilberto compilation I have had for years.
> 
> Thanks a bunch!
> 
> Beth-
> 
> OOPs- ok, pop content- hope to see some Auditeers at the KYBER tonight for
> Jane Anchor/Parallax Projec/IKE and the Queue! (I have no idea why CHFT
> aren't
> on this bill....)
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