Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – I Still Play (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:18 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
The existence of I Still Play as an album is a bit of a paradox. Each of these 11 tributes to [former Nonesuch president] Bob Hurwitz was written for an audience of one, on a particular Steinway in a specific Upper West Side living room. And yet here they are, making their way into the wider world. None are loftily ambitious or daringly experimental compositions. Rather, each distills an aspect of its author’s voice to a concentrated miniature. The prevailing tone is conversational rather than declamatory, though it’s a wide-ranging conversation. Large questions are posed but rarely answered in full. If the listener has the odd feeling of having stumbled into an exchange between two friends and missing an inside joke or shared reference here and there—that’s not far from the truth.
Tracklist:
1. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – Move (performed by Timo Andres) (02:35)
2. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – Wise Words (performed by Timo Andres) (02:50)
3. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – Rimsky or La Monte Young (performed by Timo Andres) (02:07)
4. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – I Still Play (performed by Jeremy Denk) (05:22)
5. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – Evening Song No. 2 (performed by Timo Andres) (04:47)
6. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – Song for Bob (performed by Timo Andres) (02:49)
7. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – L.A. Pastorale (performed by Brad Mehldau) (03:54)
8. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – For Bob (performed by Timo Andres) (02:29)
9. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – 42 Years (performed by Brad Mehldau) (06:36)
10. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – Her Wits (About Him) (performed by Timo Andres) (04:50)
11. Timo Andres, Jeremy Denk, Brad Mehldau, Randy Newman – Recessional (performed by Randy Newman) (00:54)
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