Piano Moods / After Hours

Joe Bushkin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00005QD4T
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,587 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hallelujah

2. I've Got a Crush on You

3. They Say It's Wonderful

4. Portrait of Tallulah

5. Here in My Arms

6. Pennies from Heaven

7. Everyday Is Christmas

8. The Lady Is a Tramp

9. Dinah

10. If I Had You

11. Once in a While

12. California, Here I Come

13. They Can't Take That Away from Me

14. At Sundown

15. High Cotton

16. Ol' Man River

Editorial Reviews

JOE BUSHKIN Piano Moods/ After Hours (2001 US 16-track CD that couples together the two albums from 1950 and 52 with Buck Clayton Eddie Safranski Sid Weiss & Jo Jones - a fantastic 2-in-1 package COL-CD-7402)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The perfect balance between musicality, lyricism and evocation!, February 11, 2008

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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Joe Bushkin's style meant in those times the seminal spark, the inspirational pivot for Bill Evans, years later.

Bushkin played with an accurate balance between expression and introspection, that made of the jazz the new way to capture these magic moments and, at the same time to evoke these peerless instants of voluptuous and sentimental mood since the middle forties.

In this sense just a few pianists felt and understood this approach - I could cite to Errol Garner (Misty), Roger Williams (in the easy to listen music) and Oscar Levant (despite he was a classic pianist, he made his contribution in "An American in Paris", playing with that characteristic mellowness) - that challenged the new sounds of that decade.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Music, March 16, 2010

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Mr. John J. Seaton Rn "Tubaman" (Las Vegas, NM USA) - See all my reviews
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I knew this guy personally. One of the great under recognized musicians of his (or any) time.