PAGE CAVANAUGH TRIO: The Digital Page

PAGE CAVANAUGH TRIO
Alvíssaras! Depois de pesquisar exaustivamente a Net, finalmente encontrei um álbum do legendário e seminal PAGE CAVANAUGH TRIO, que fez história nos anos 40 e 50, ao lado do (idem, ibidem) 'NAT "KING" COLE TRIO'.
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PAGE CAVANAUGH
Page Cavanaugh (January 26, 1922, Cherokee, Kansas - December 19, 2008, Los Angeles) was an American jazz and pop pianist, vocalist, and arranger. Cavanaugh began on piano at age nine and played with Ernie Williamson's band in 1938-39 before moving to Los Angeles and joining the Bobby Sherwood band at age 20. While serving in the military during World War II, Cavanaugh met guitarist Al Viola and bassist Lloyd Pratt, with whom he formed a trio. After the war's end they performed together in the style of the Nat King Cole Trio, scoring a number of hits in the late 1940s including "The Three Bears", "Walkin' My Baby Back Home", and "All of Me". The trio appeared in the films A Song Is Born, Big City, Lullaby of Broadway (with Doris Day) and Romance on the High Seas (Doris Day's first film, in 1948).] Additionally, they played on Frank Sinatra's Songs by Sinatra radio program and on The Jack Paar Show. He played in Los Angeles area nightclubs through the 1990s, both in a trio setting (with Viola for many years) and as a septet, the Page 7. He also recorded with Bobby Woods & Les Deux Love Orchestra. Cavanaugh recorded for MGM, Capitol, RCA, Star Line and Dobre Records over the course of his career, releasing his final Page Cavanaugh Trio CD, Return to Elegance, in 2006. Cavanaugh died December 19, 2008 of kidney failure.
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MINHA OPINIÃO
O estilo elegante de Page Cavanaugh é o retrato de um período em que os pianistas de jazz, (como ele, Nat "King" Cole, Joe Mooney, Bobby Troup, George Shearing e alguns outros) começavam a se libertar da onipresente influência do grande Art Tatum. Esses pianistas forjaram um estilo próprio, econômico e elegante, que não se enquadrava nos cânones do "be bop", cujas raízes começavam a germinar. Nas faixas "There´s no Spring" e "That Sunday" (não por acaso, um sucesso de seu "alter-ego" Nat K.Cole), PAGE nos dá uma mostra do seu lado de cantor "cool & classy". Pena que o Trio não vocalize - coisa que fazia muito bem. É um belo e raro registro do grande PC, mais um "segredo-muito-bem-guardado", agora revelado. Beleza pura!
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PAGE CAVANAUGH TRIO: The Digital Page

PAGE CAVANAUGH TRIO
Page Cavanaugh - piano
Al Viola - guitar
Lloyd Pratt - bass

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1.Strike up the band
2.Love of my life
3.Poor butterfly
4.The sky fell down
5.There´s no spring
6.Things ain´t what they used to be
7.Whatever became of me
8.Lullaby of the leaves
9.That sunday
10.All the things you are
11.The star spangled banner