Real Book Stories Wolfgang Muthspiel, Marc Johnson, Brian Blade

• 1 Lament 06:54
• 2 All the Things You Are 03:42
• 3 Someday My Prince Will Come 03:35
• 4 I Hear a Rhapsody 04:24
• 5 Blue in Green 04:05
• 6 Giant Steps 05:30
• 7 Peace 04:49
• 8 Liebeslied 03:27
• 9 Ask Me Now 03:51
• 10 Solar 03:22
• Total Runtime 43:39

Info for Real Book Stories

Wolfgang Muthspiel about the music (taken from the liner notes of the Real Book Stories)

On the cover of this album you can see a picture of New York taken in Hoboken, New Jersey where we recorded these tracks. To me it represents the beauty of a familiar place seen from a different perspective. I come from a small town in Austria called Judenburg. If my family when I moved to the next bigger city, Graz, it felt like the navel of the world. Graz is considered provincial for the Viennese. Playing in Vienna for the first time seemed the ultimate proof of success until I moved to Boston to study. From Boston, New York seemed like a separate planet, unreachable and frightening. When I finally moved to New York City, I settled in the "village," considered by many to be the center of jazz. So over the years I've moved from the outside to the center and, among other things, I've noticed that the center looks very different when you're in it. It loses all the qualities commonly attributed to it and takes on others. While New York City used to stand for things like speed, pulse, metropolis, today it stands for friends, football in the park, our apartment and the early bird special at a Japanese restaurant. In a way, that's how I approach the music on this album. I look at standards from an outsider's perspective. I grew up listening to Mozart, not Ellington, and I was making music long before I discovered jazz. I like being a foreigner, I speak a language other than my mother tongue. I like accents. This is my first Jazz Standards album. I've always played them, but rarely in my concerts or on my albums. This recording feels to me like a conversation about standards. A conversation with two of my favorite musicians about music I love.

Wolfgang Muthspiel, guitar
Marc Johnson, double bass
Brian Blade, drums

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