Paul Desmond-Bridge Over Troubled Water-(Reissue)-2008-MTD

Paul Desmond - Bridge Over Troubled Water



ARTIST.....: Paul Desmond

TITLE......: Bridge Over Troubled Water

LABEL......: A&M

URL........: http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/releases/default.aspx?pid=11824&aid=2893
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RIP DATE...: Jul-23-2008

STORE DATE.: Mar-18-2008

GENRE......: Jazz

QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo

SIZE.......: 47,8 MB





Track Listing:



01 - El Condor Pasa 03:05

02 - So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright 03:27

03 - The 59th Street Bridge Song 05:12

(Feelin' Groovy)

04 - Mrs. Robinson 02:43

05 - Old Friends 03:55

06 - America 03:59

07 - For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her 04:03

08 - Scarborough Fair/Canticle 04:23

09 - Cecilia 02:15

10 - Bridge Over Troubled Water 03:25



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36:27 min

Release Notes:



Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water was the hottest

album in the land in 1970, and Paul Simon's tunes from that and

their earlier albums unexpectedly find a congenial advocate in

Paul Desmond. Against the odds as determined by bopsters, Desmond

finds something beautiful, wistful, and/or sly to say in each of

these ten tunes, backed by Herbie Hancock's Rhodes electric piano

and a set of ravishing, occasionally overstated (as in "America")

orchestrations by Don Sebesky. "The 59th Street Bridge Song" is

given a jaunty, carefree rendition, adapting quite well to a jazz

treatment (after all, Desmond's old teammate in the Brubeck

quartet Joe Morello played drums on S&G's original record) and

Desmond even does some cascading overdubs on his solo part.

"Cecilia" is a fast samba, Desmond cleverly works his old "Sacre

Blues" into the solo on "El Condor Pasa," and the title track has

a breathtakingly pretty fadeout. Hancock's solos often reflect

where he was personally at in 1970, with ideas transferred from

his progressive electric Sextet. This is a Creed Taylor production

in all but name; the sound, track editing, and production values

are right in line with the A&M CTI line, but Sebesky is listed as

producer, Taylor having recently severed his ties with A&M to form

his own label.



by Richard S. Ginell