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DOROUGH UNLEASHED!
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Here's lots of streaming music by Bob,
now moving smoothly through his eighty-first year on the
planet.
To
listen, simply click on any of the titles below.
DEVIL MAY CARE (1956)
This certified classic, recently remastered, includes some
fine backup musicians:
bassist Bill Takas, drummer Jerry Segal, trumpeter
Warren Fitzgerald and vibraphonist Jack Hitchcock.
It
Could Happen to You
Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Baltimore Oriole
Devil May Care
JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING (1966)
Joining Bob on this disc are Al Schackman (guitar),
Ben Tucker (bass) and Percy Brice (drums).
I’ve Got Just About Everything
Better Than Anything
But For Now
Tis
Autumn
MEMORIAL CHARLIE PARKER (1992)
Bob
and Bill Takas (plus guest Phil Woods on alto) recorded this
one at a European concert during the Eighties.
Au
Privave + Sittin' In at the Au Privave
RIGHT ON MY WAY HOME (1997)
This remarkable release brought Mr. Bob to the attention of
a whole new audience.
Among the other players on hand are Joe Lovano, Bill Takas,
Christian McBride, Billy Hart and Grady Tate.
Moon
River
I Get the Neck of
the Chicken
Up Jumped a Bird
Spring Can Really Hang You Up
TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN (2000)
Bob's second Blue
Note release –
again highly praised
by the critics –
adds Phil
Woods' alto, the guitar of Joe Cohn and
the sterling Steve Gilmore / Bill Goodwin rhythm team.
The Coffee Song
Wake Up Sally, It’s Saturday
There’s Never Been a Day
Love: Webster’s Definition
WHO'S ON FIRST? (WITH DAVE FRISHBERG, 2000)
Bob
and Dave recorded this one live at The Jazz Bakery in Los
Angeles.
On these two numbers, Bob's out there alone.
Health Food Nut
Nothing Like You
YET
MORE BOB!
A rare treat! Jazz-and-poetry was all
the rage during the Fifties.
Here’s Bob with a perfectly nuanced reading of Lawrence
Ferlinghetti's
poem “Dog,"
originally released during that period on a Pacific Jazz
anthology entitled Jazz Canto. As you'll hear, the
meaning of life is
succinctly explained in just under four minutes.
Enjoy two delicious excerpts from
Blossom Dearie's Needlepoint Magic CD:
Blossom and Bob together on "Baby,
It's Cold Outside" and "Two
Sleepy People."
Now
here are tracks from three hard-to-find Dorough albums
recorded in Europe.
Bassist Bill Takas is an integral part of each.
"Aren't
You Glad You're You?" (from
1982's Devil May Care II, cut in Paris)
"My
Melancholy Baby" (from
Clankin' on Tin Pan Alley, a terrific 1986 project
that also includes saxophone work by Turk Mauro on tenor and
Michel De Villers on baritone)
"But
Beautiful"
(from Songs of Love,
done in Spain in 1987 and featuring Art Farmer's trumpet)
OTHER ARTISTS DOING TUNES WRITTEN OR CO-WRITTEN BY BOB
"I'm
Hip," done as an
instrumental by drummer Fredrik Noren’s Stockholm-based
quintet
(from the Sonet CD called To Mr. J.)
"Small
Day Tomorrow," sung by
Diane Hubka on Look No Further,
a Challenge album co-produced by Bob
"Comin'
Home, Baby" with Bill Mays
(piano), Martin Wind (bass) and
Matt Wilson (drums), from Bill's splendid Going Home CD
on the Palmetto label
"Never
in a Single Year" from
Carol Fredette's Everything I Need,
a delightful 1999 release by Brownstone on which Bob is both
co-producer
and guest (an album that also includes Dave Frishberg)
"Devil
May Care" from Meredith
d'Ambrosio's 1985 collection
(on the Sunnyside label) entitled It's Your Dance,
with Harold Danko
on piano and Kevin Eubanks playing guitar
"Just
About Everything" from
The Real Thing, a 1988 album by Nancy Marano
and Eddie Monteiro, with Eddie's high-tech accordion
providing the sole instrumental
backup on a treatment that's just as upbeat as Bob's lyric
"Devil
May Care" from a landmark
1962 Miles Davis
date with solos by both Miles and Wayne Shorter
(available on Miles Davis and Gil Evans: The Complete
Columbia Studio Sessions)
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