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 |  |  | | | | Track Listings | | | Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin) | 11:06 | | Mouth to Mouth (Hampton) | 5:49 | | Jacqueline Smiled At Me (Hampton) | 2:58 | | Infinite Love (Hampton) | 8:15 | | Can’t Help Loving That Man (Jerome Kern) | 9:39 | | For Louis Malle (Hampton) | 14:16 | | Solitude for Carolina (Hampton) | 5:17 | | Stroll Strut And Stroll (Hampton) | 10:57 | | Total time: | 68:47 |
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| | | | | | Mitch Swings - Mitch Hampton | | | Our Price: $9.95  | | | | Item Number: MMC2052J | | Audio Format: DDD | | Genre: Trio | | | | Description | | Excerpt from the Liner Notes (by Mitch Hampton)
A musically astute listener, one with a wide (listener’s) knowledge of both American popular music and European art music, should recognize many quotes and allusions-some cutesy (even kitschy), some bizarre, some merely musical‹embedded inside the compositions, arrangements, and especially improvisations on this album. For that matter, even a relatively inexperienced “lay” listener has a lot of musical nostalgia to discover. This was quite intentional. I am eclectic in my tastes, and the pastiche quality of the music‹with its references to Chopin, Bach, Broadway show tunes, rhythm and blues etc.‹seems a logical conclusion to such a sensibility. Hopefully part of the delight for the listener can be picking out these references during repeated hearings. So as not to spoil the listener’s treasure hunt, I will not divulge too much. However, in the first tune, Cheek To Cheek, there is a bit of Ireland (Glocca Morra) and Broadway cowboy (Rogers and Hammerstein) along with Irving Berlin. There are, of course, precedents for such an approach and these folks have inspired me most: pianist Ahmad Jamal, the classic bebop soloists (especially tenor saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon), and of course Charles Ives. All were (and are) as playful and ironic as they were serious. |
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