Wonderful piano, wonderful performance, wonderful recording! Mr. Fortner is one of brightest of many young talents to emerge in recent decades. I had the great pleasures of hearing a performance in this venue several years ago, and of hearing him in San Francisco a few years ago. I'm a retired jazz recording engineer and life-long jazz listener, while my wife casually enjoys the music. Driving home, she remarked that she now understood why I was always bitching about the sound of the pianos in the clubs we frequent, including the one at Kuumbwa.
"Devil My Care" (at about 17:00) is by Bob Dorrough, who wrote a lot of nice things, including "Blue Christmas," which he sang with Miles, and with Dave Frishberg and Jack Sheldon, was a major creator of "Schoolhouse Rock." The song starting at about 27:03 is a Bossa Nova called "Corcovado" (Quiet Nights) by Antonio Carlos Jobim, the tune beginning around 33:45 is another of his original compositions, "Nightingale" at 38:17, is a jazz standard from a British composer that piano master Barry Harris often played. Starting around 48:45 is Steve Allen's "This Could Be The Start of Something Big," most notably recorded by the wonderful vocalist, Mark Murphy, in the '60s, and here he's playing great stride piano. I recognize what he starts around 53:50, but can't place it with a name. Mark McMillan figured out the rest
0:00 Congolese Children Sweet And Lovely 7:35 Aria Excerpt From Bizet's Quintet from 'Carmen' Devil May Care 20:30 On The Street Where You Live (20:54) 27:09 33:45 38:17 A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 42:41 48:45 53:49 58:12 Put Out The Light 1:03:44 The Man I Love
