Accordion a La Mode / Perfect Match

Art Van Damme | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00004YNF0
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,266 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. À la Mode

2. You Stepped Out of a Dream

3. That Old Feeling

4. Sweet and Lovely

5. How About You?

6. I'm Shooting High

7. You Were Meant for Me

8. Charmaine

9. On Green Dolphin Street

10. Just You, Just Me

11. Diane

12. Star Eyes

13. Bye Bye Blackbird

14. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

15. Tickle Toe

16. Gone With the Wind

17. Valse Hot

18. The Best Thing for You

19. Satan's Doll

20. Bluesy

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The hippest cat ever to swing an accordian", January 19, 2001

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Karen (Melbourne, FL US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Accordion a La Mode / Perfect Match (Audio CD)

Wow! For those for whom the accordian primarily conjures up thoughts of Weird Al or polka music, take one listen to the man the folks at Space Age Pop Music call "the hippest cat ever to swing an accordian" and you'll never think of the accordian in the same way again. I can only echo the words of reviewer Fred C. Dorn (regarding another Art Van Damme CD, "Once Over Lightly/Manhattan Time"): "Art Van Damme is to the accordian as Dave Brubeck is to the piano." This is one swingin' CD!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thanks Dad!, August 21, 2001

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Mark Maj "80band" (Lackawanna, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Accordion a La Mode / Perfect Match (Audio CD)

My father has played Accordian since he was a very small child. He played in a polka band when he became old enough to play in bars. After hours he would go down town and sit in with the local jazz musicians. My father always had some vinyl of some great player on the turn table most every night while i was growing up. Monk, Diz, Bird, Miles and Art. It may seem funny sounding to you, But Art Van Damme is the king of his instrument and just as great an artist. He could play great ballads like Miles. Dizzying hot upbeat tunes like Bird or foot taping latin beats like Dizzy. I personally am greatful I had a chance to know who he was and am Very glad his work is coming out on CD.

5.0 out of 5 stars Lost Sophistication. . ., August 28, 2007

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J Keistler "[e-mail]" (Lake Jackson, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Accordion a La Mode / Perfect Match (Audio CD)

When I played this CD for a teenaged niece of mine, it was like music from outer space for her. Living a short distance from Houston, we have no radio source for this music any more. Mr. Van Damme's music demonstrates what we have lost somehow. It is truly a separate beast entirely from either the polka music with which we associate the accordion, or the musette of Paris. How fortunate that we can hear samples on Amazon! His version of 'Poinciana' has been my favorite for decades. This is great music for listening in the car, and that is where my CD stays.