Bill Carrothers Trio: A Night At The Village Vangu

Bill Carrothers Trio: Bill Carrothers, piano; Nicolas Thys, bass; Dré Pallemaerts, drums

First Set
1 tiny capers · c. brown | 05:33
2 joy spring/delilah · c. brown/v. young | 09:01
3 gerkin for perkin · c. brown | 07:03
4 gertrude's bounce · r. powell | 06:36
5 jordu · d. jordan | 07:09
6 this is worth fighting for · j. dorsey | 07:09
7 home row · b. carrothers | 06:48
8 news from home · b. carrothers | 04:10
9 let's get lost · j. mchugh / f. loesser | 09:34
10 those were the days · g. raskin/b. fomin | 06:12

Second Set
1 junior's arrival · c. brown | 08:40
2 time · r. powell | 07:55
3 jordan is a hard road to travel · trad. | 10:32
4 peg · b. carrothers | 08:49
5 blue evening · g. jenkins/j. bishop | 06:25
6 discombopulated · b. carrothers | 07:43
7 snowbound · b. carrothers | 08:38
8 days of wine and roses · h. mancini | 07:17
9 our house · b. carrothers | 04:05

A premiere - and a twofold one at that! This is Pirouet Records' first double CD production and its first live CD as well. There is good reason for both - likewise twofold. The first: one of the most remarkable American jazz pianists of the last 20 years is playing with his European trio - two Belgians - bassist Nicholas Thys and drummer Dré Pallemaerts. The second: this live recording takes place in a venue with a very special aura - Manhattan's the Village Vanguard - a Mecca of jazz for 76 years, and the setting for many legendary live recordings over the decades. Carrothers' trio performed for a week in the club that has been dubbed the "Carnegie Hall of Jazz". You can relive an evening on this double CD - each CD contains one of the two sets played that evening. It is a fascinating program filled with musical cross-references. Alongside classic hard bop trumpet icon Clifford Brown there are such jazz evergreens as "Let's Get Lost", and seldom-played songs like Carrothers' reshaping of the World War II composition "This is Worth Fighting For". Then there are Carrothers' own deeply moving compositions, drawing the listener into a magic atmosphere that doesn't disappear until the last piece, the paean"Our House".

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