Bobby Short - Live at the Café Carlyle [MFSL UDCD 589](1974)

Posted By : bookaroni | Date : 18 Mar 2009 16:20:03 | Comments : 10 |

This CD reissue of a 1974 Atlantic release features Bobby Short on piano and vocals, Beverly Peer on bass and Richard Sheridan on drums. Recorded live in performance at the Cafe Carlyle on December 7 & 8, 1973.

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From All Music:
After springing for three double-LP songbook albums in three years devoted to Cole Porter, Noël Coward, and George Gershwin, Atlantic Records tracked Bobby Short to his lair for a fourth two-disc collection in December 1973, setting up recording equipment in the tiny confines of the Cafe Carlyle where Short had maintained a permanent residency since 1968. There, over two nights, the tapes picked up a typical selection of standards by Porter, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, and other interwar songwriting masters, plus some more recent material, played by Short's piano trio, which also featured Beverly Peer on bass and Richard Sheridan on drums. The singer/pianist's talent lay in mixing his spirited readings of pop standards like "On the Sunny Side of the Street" and "I Get a Kick Out of You" with sophisticated, amusing fare like "Miss Otis Regrets," earthy blues pronouncements like "New Orleans Hop Scop Blues," and the cream of contemporary Broadway. This last was represented by several selections by Broadway's leading songwriter of the early '70s, Stephen Sondheim. Short borrowed "Sorry-Grateful" from Company, "Losing My Mind" from Follies, and "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music. In each case, these were ballads of romantic frustration, and Short treated them reverently, perhaps a bit too reverently. Thankfully, the listener was never far from a change of mood on this album, making for a full evening that mixed uptown with down-home, all delivered by a smiling man in a tuxedo. Given the live setting, however, the editors might have been advised to include more spoken remarks and to refrain from fading the sound out after every track. As it was, most of the time, Live at the Café Carlyle came off as a regular studio album that happened to have applause rather than evoking the spontaneous and seamless feel of a live album.

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EACL + Accurip

MFSL version released in 1994.

Tracklisting-
1.Real Live Girl
2.Miss Brown To You
3.On The Sunny Side Of The Street
4.Mister And Missus Fetch
5.Losing My Mind
6.Losing My Mind (Reprise)
7.All Of You
8.Let's Misbehave
9.Sorry-Grateful
10.I Get A Kick Out Of You
11.New Orleans Hop Scop Blues
12.Medley: Four Walls & Roller Coaster Blues
13.Send In The Clowns
14.When A Man Loves A Woman
15.Ill Wind
16.Miss Otis Regrets
17.It's Not You
18.I Happen To Like New york
19.One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
20.As Time Goes By
21.I've Got The World On A String
22.Medley: If I Had A Talking Picture Of You, I'm A Dreamer & Turn On The Heat
23.For All We Know
24.I Like The Likes Of You

Flac Links-
Flac Part 1
Flac Part 2
Flac Part 3
Flac Part 4
Flac Part 5

MP3 Links-
MP3 Part 1
MP3 Part 2

3% Recovery record included.

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Posted By: antonisgr Date: 19 Mar 2009 07:33:28

bookaroni thank you!

Posted By: bookaroni Date: 19 Mar 2009 12:53:52

Wow. That is just too cool having him sing to you live.
This CD was one of the more difficult for me to acquire. And I'm glad I finally did. Enjoy!

Posted By: littlejoe Date: 19 Mar 2009 15:22:57

This IS cool indeed. One thing though bookaroni - I can't get foobar to recognize the .cue file for this. Is it just me? If not could you possibly provide one bookaroni? Either way great work here on a hard to find MFSL selection. We'd all be in the poor house if we had to acquire these on the secondary market.

Posted By: ivan_1966 Date: 19 Mar 2009 18:22:48

Thank you for so rare CD upload!

Posted By: bookaroni Date: 20 Mar 2009 12:28:56

littlejoe,
Someone else had a problem with the Cue file. But they got it fixed. This is what they said they did-
"I just got Bobby Short to work, I opened the cue file with Notepad and changed line 7 from .wav to .flac, then drag and drop the cue into burrrn and hit burrrn, it worked perfectly."

Not sure if you had the same problem as they did or not. If you can't get it to work PM me and I will make a new Cue file for you.

Posted By: Miltiades Date: 25 Mar 2009 17:12:23

Many, many thanks bookaroni!

Posted By: FG180 Date: 26 Mar 2009 11:14:49

Thank you.

Posted By: Goodspeed Date: 28 Mar 2009 11:45:35

Thank you once again for another gem from the MoFi vaults!

Posted By: jazzever Date: 25 Mar 2010 17:04:26

Hei bookaroni this is a true gem i'm grateful for your effort,fantastic !!

Posted By: jazzever Date: 25 Mar 2010 20:34:32

Just to inform you dear bookaroni,this record is fantastic occour that the mp3 file has an error in the last four musics,for that reason I will download the FLAC file.Thank you again.

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