John Pizzarelli: Double Exposure
Author: Peter Vacher
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Musicians: |
Stan Sulzmann (ts) |
Label: |
Inversion |
Magazine Review Date: |
April/2017 |
Catalogue Number: |
INV002CD |
RecordDate: |
1990 |
Yet another Pizzarelli offering from Telarc, this time it's his take on his selection of ‘my generation’ pop songs. Soft sounding, sugar coated and wistful, it's his vocals that predominate here, more Paul Simon than Kurt Elling, let's say. The devices used are often quite cute; the lyric of ‘I Feel Fine’ superimposed on a band version of ‘Sidewinder’, Lennon and McCartney meet Lee Morgan, for instance, or ‘Diamond Girl’ (by Crofts and Seals) over ‘So What’. The band provides the necessary backdrop, Kadleck and Fusco emerging briefly to solo, and Fuller providing his usual crisp, boppish interjections. ‘Traffic Jam/The Kicker’, by James Taylor out of Joe Henderson, is given the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross treatment, with Pizzarelli's wife Jessica Molaskey harmonising in frantic fashion with her old man. I did like his version of Joni Mitchell's ‘Free Man in Paris’ but not a lot else. So, not much guitar or jazz, for that matter this is strictly for aficionados only.

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