A blog devoted solely to jazz recordings on the Japanese Venus label. Rare and hard to find in the West, the label is well-known for producing immaculately recorded modern-jazz that is straight ahead but sophisticated.

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Bill Charlap - I'm Old Fashioned

A recent beauty of a release by Venus this. The maestro on piano, Peter Bernstein on guitar and Peter Washington on bass. Absolutely stunning sound - listen to it on a good stereo and Charlap could be playing the piano in your living room.

As it's name suggests, its just a good honest 60-odd minutes of a swinging trio playing standards. Charlap just seems to get better, his playing on the title track is sublime. As a piano player myself, I don't think anyone voices block-chords in quite the way that he does. Enjoy.

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12 comments:

  1. Link doesn't seem to work? :(

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  3. Right then:
    https://rapidshare.com/files/1754089369/Charlap-OldFashioned.zip

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  4. Great, thanks so much!

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  5. Thank you. Peter Bernstein is a fine guitarist too.

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  6. Thank you so much!!

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  7. Wow! Great share. Thank you so much for continuing to share these hard to find gems.

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  8. A terrific album! I am really enjoying the music. Thanks.

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