Horace Parlan in Copenhagen

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Label
Storyville Records
Release Date
September 1, 2008
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Horace Parlan
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2008
    • UPC
      717101852123
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SVL1018521
    • LABEL
      Storyville Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Parker's Mood

      Composer: Charlie Parker

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    2. Broken Promises

      Composer: Horace Parlan

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    3. Thanks for the Memory: Two Sleepy People

      Composer: Hoagy Carmichael

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    4. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

      Composer: George Bassman

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    5. Déjà Vu

      Composer: Archie Shepp

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    6. A Time for Love

      Composer: Johnny Mandel

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    7. Three Little Words

      Composer: Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    8. Blood Count

      Composer: Billy Strayhorn

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    9. I Waited for You

      Composer: Walter Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    10. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    11. Deep River

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    12. Pannonica

      Composer: Thelonious Monk

      Performer: Horace Parlan

    13. Melancholia

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Horace Parlan


A European tour with Miriam Makeba in 1970 had brought Parlan to Copenhagen, where four off-days gave him time to look around the city. He liked what he saw and two years later he settled down in Copenhagen. Horace Parlan enjoys playing solo piano – but haven’t had the chance to do it all that often. Parlan’s aim in making this CD was to give highly personal interpretations of compositions which he has cherished over the years but which have not been over-recorded. He says: "I am not a Tatum – I have to make the material fit my particular style and I spent quite a bit of time working on the arrangement. I wanted to do a reflective CD – no racehorse tempos, no pyrotechnics – and also make the harmonic structures as interesting as possible."