{"id":27,"date":"2015-11-17T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=27"},"modified":"2015-11-17T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:21:49","slug":"last-takes-with-rory","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/portfolio\/last-takes-with-rory\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Takes with Rory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Free_Form\">STOMPER&#8230;is Rory all the way. It\u2019s got his warmth and vitality.\u00a0 The guy was so easy to like&#8230;and this tune seems to suit him with its open, loping swagger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">ZEEDIJK LULLABY\/A winding street in Amsterdam\u2019s old town, \u201cthe Zeedijk\u201d ends near the Prinz Hendrik where I stayed&#8230;and where Chet Baker died.\u00a0 The area\u2019s a bit dark and winding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">MIND THE GAP is (was) the automated caution offered by an engaging woman\u2019s voice at London TUBE stops with the opening of subway doors.\u00a0 Literally <span class=\"style_2\">mind<\/span> the space separating the train from the platform when getting off. Listeners should \u201cmind the gap\u201d between the head and the solo in this tune because it stays in time.\u00a0 The \u201dgap\u201d may be this selection\u2019s core element.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">FOR YOU\/ Flip Nu\u00f1ez is a friend who lived and died in California, but his ashes are spread off the north coast of Oahu.\u00a0 His handful of years in Hawaii during the 80s was the time we got acquainted as fellow pianists.\u00a0 \u201cFor You\u201d is his latest addition to my collection of Flip tunes, thanks to his daughter Dana.\u00a0 Flip\u2019s harmonic approach uses modal-block chords with subtle harmonic shifts using suspended (4th) voicings.\u00a0 Another early mentor of this approach for me was Michigan pianist Eddie Russ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\" style=\"text-align: center;\">(&#8230;the album starts its own shift here.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU (VOCAL) introduces Angela, then high school senior, to recording again.\u00a0 Maybe too much a \u201clove\u201d song for father\u2019s taste, she first delivers the lyric rubato-style before swinging it up tempo and adding a bebop-crafted scat.\u00a0 Angie included a version of this track in her college applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">SONG FOR PATRICIA was written while I stayed on Sabang Beach in Puerto Galera just south of Manila in the Philippines during the early 80s.\u00a0 Life stands still there&#8230;at least it did for me then.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t handle the timelessness.\u00a0 Young Patricia was already working 14 hour days at the restaurant of her family\u2019s small lodge.\u00a0 A few years later, she was married and raising a child.\u00a0 Now I presume her kid\u2019s older than mine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE first came out my senior year in college at Lawrence in Wisconsin.\u00a0 A lovely melody with rich harmonies underneath.\u00a0 \u201cJohnny (Mandel)&#8230;\u201d, I never tire of this one.\u00a0 Rory\u2019s<span class=\"style_2\">sympatico<\/span> here is great.\u00a0 Hear how he catches that two-beat accent near the end of the extended piano bossa solo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE is one the trio played for a full house at Studio 6 one March night in \u201803 soon after US forces entered Iraq.\u00a0 The prospects of war cast a grim pall that evening&#8230;again and as always as they should.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">TRAVELS WITH MR. CHARLEY is for an guy I met in Kamloops, B.C. in the early 70s at a public campground while driving across Western Canada.\u00a0 Charley didn\u2019t hitchhike like the college kids but hopped trains to get around the country.\u00a0 Claimed he could make a \u201ccoffee\u201d drink out of dandelion roots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">MOON IN THE DAYTIME (VOCAL) is like a code for Angela and me.\u00a0 We still sing this together (or apart) like when she was a kid seeing a midday moon.\u00a0 Bonnie Gearheart added lyrics to this cheerful song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Serious listeners\/musicians are invited to read special musicological comments in \u201cliner notes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Free_Form\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/richcrandall2\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOMPER&#8230;is Rory all the way. 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