Whiat Birdland (24bt) (Mlps) [Import, Original recording remastered]

Pat Moran Quartet, Pat Moran | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 4, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B00061QX9U
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #963,403 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Last call, December 18, 2005

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: While at Birdland (Audio CD)

Thank goodness someone thought well enough of these Bethlehem vinyls to come out with this two-CD package. Better pick it up fast. No guarantee additional copies will materialize once this supply is exhausted.

The program is actually a three-part affair: grooving piano trio numbers by Pat Moran, freshly spun vocals by Bev Kelly (she sounds better to me here than on her Riverside albums), tightly harmonized four-part vocals featuring the two women and two men.

Pat Moran was, and possibly still is, a major talent, a swinging jazz pianist whose talents were not lost on the likes of Terry Gibbs, Scott LaFaro, and Ira Sullivan, all with whom she played extensively (good luck finding the recordings). As for the music of the quartet, like so many versatile, talented performers who drew their inspiration from the "American Songbook," this foursome arrived just a bit too late--about the same time as Elvis and several years ahead of the Beetles--and consequently paid the price for a tardiness that was no fault of their own.