Alex de Grassi, Bolivian Blues Bar - 48m 52s

Tracks & Durations

1. It Ain't Necessarily So	4:29
2. The Man I Love	4:44
3. (Bo) Didley Variations	4:09
4. Georgia	3:27
5. Bess, You Is My Woman Now	4:45
6. You Go To My Head	4:25
7. Little Rootie Tootie	1:54
8. Darn That Dream	3:29
9. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat	3:35
10. You've Changed	4:03
11. Woody Woodpecker Theme	2:24
12. Come Sunday	3:23
13. Round Midnight	3:56

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Review

A work of quiet sophistication and subtle pleasures (including a jazz-tinged take on a cartoon character's theme music, off all things), guitarist Alex de Grassi's Bolivian Blues Bar is another collection of understated excellence from a fingerstyle specialist admired for his inquisitive musical nature. The album's title is a touch misleading; you'll find little "Bolivian" here other than a note explaining how de Grassi first tinkered with these vintage tunes with a friend from that country. Most of its 13 tracks are jazz standards (Monk's "'Round Midnight" and "Little Rootie Tootie"; a trio of selections from George and Ira Gershwin; plus three songs associated with Billie Holliday), which de Grassi, working strictly as an acoustic soloist, arranged with hopes of coaxing a vocalist's expressiveness from his six strings. He succeeds most effectively with the late-night coziness of "You Go to My Head" (Holliday), a handsome rendering of Charles Mingus's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," and the concluding Monk selection. A subdued recording, but not entirely a sleepy one. --Terry Wood

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Bolivian Blues Bar

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 48m 57s (+0m 5s)

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