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Last Train Home

Davy Mooney & John Pizzarelli

Last Train Home

Price: € 12.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917327328
Catnr: CR 73273
Release date: 27 March 2009
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Challenge Records
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0608917327328
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CR 73273
Release date
27 March 2009
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Davy Mooney: vocals & guitar | John Pizzarelli: guitar

Every once in a very long while a new talent emerges on the jazz scene who seems to have the necessary qualities to become a major player in the field.
Such a talent is the young New Orleans born guitarist Davy Mooney who has the technique, taste, originality and commitment to the music that shines through everything he plays. In September 2005 John Pizzarelli was one of the judges of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition and Davy was one of the contestants. Davy placed 3rd overall, winning a $5,000 scholarship, but John was sufficiently impressed to make this CD with him - which is a more than eloquent endorsement.
One of the first noticeable things about this CD is the refreshingly un-hackneyed repertoire. Out of the 15 tracks, only 4 could be called “standards”. Take a listen to ‘I’m getting sentimental over you’, played at its’ original fox-trot speed rather than at the slow tempo that Tommy Dorsey’s million selling version popularised. The first solo is by Davy, the second by John and if you know that you’ll have difficulty in sorting out who plays what on the rest of the CD. The remaining three standards are Rodgers and Hart’s ‘I didn’t know what time it was’, the lovely Schwarz/Dietz ‘Alone Together’ and the Alter and Delange favourite ‘Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans’. For the rest, we have a couple of pieces from Pat Metheny, Duke Ellington’s gorgeous ‘Azalea’ (why this hasn’t joined the ranks of the Duke’s great standards is a mystery), Monk’s ‘Ask me now’ - pieces by Jobim, Michel Legrand and Don Grolnick plus a couple of tasty originals ‘Angela’s Sad Song’ and ‘Reckless Blues’, written by Davy and, as a bonus, sung by him too.
What Davy refers to as “John’s never-ending bass line” is the most obvious feature of the driving ‘Last Train Home’, but it’s a measure of the great rapport that exists between these two fine musicians that on all the other tracks where each of them has a solo spot, the other drops into rhythm guitar/accompanist mould absolutely seamlessly.

Wenn eine etablierte Jazz-Gr��e wie John Pizzarelli einen jungen Kollegen unter seine Fittiche nimmt und mit ihm gleich eine Duo-CD aufnimmt, sagt das Einiges aus. Dave Mooney, aufgewachsen und ausgebildet in New Orleans, hat schon einige Meriten verdient, aber 'Last Train Home' hat das Zeug, ihm den Durchbruch zu bringen. Nat�rlich spielen die beiden einige Standards wie 'Alone Together', aber auch mehrere St�cke von Pat Metheny und Don Grolnick sowie zwei Originals. Pures H�rvergn�gen f�r alle Jazz- und Gitarrenliebhaber!

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Davy Mooney

Davy Mooney’s musical background includes attending the New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts and then the University of North Texas where he studied guitar with Fred Hamilton and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Studies, whilst there he played in the Grammy nominated One O’Clock Lab band. Moving back to New Orleans in 2001 he continued his studies at the University of New Orleans and earned a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies while playing in the Louis Armstrong Quintet, a group founded by a grant from the Louis Armstrong Foundation to teach Jazz to high school students in New Orleans. With them, he took part in the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. During this time he was...
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Davy Mooney’s musical background includes attending the New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts and then the University of North Texas where he studied guitar with Fred Hamilton and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz Studies, whilst there he played in the Grammy nominated One O’Clock Lab band. Moving back to New Orleans in 2001 he continued his studies at the University of New Orleans and earned a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies while playing in the Louis Armstrong Quintet, a group founded by a grant from the Louis Armstrong Foundation to teach Jazz to high school students in New Orleans. With them, he took part in the 2005 North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. During this time he was also busy teaching at his old Alma Mater the New Orleans Centre for Creative Arts, appearing with the Django Reinhardt inspired Hot Club of New Orleans which included performances at the 2005 Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland and at Lincoln Center in New York City. He now divides his time between New York and New Orleans, but still regards the latter as home, sweet home.
Before making this CD, his first for an internationally distributed label, Davy had independently released two CDs, ‘Balance of Time’ in 2002 and ‘Luckless Pedestrian’ in 2003.

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John Pizzarelli

John Pizzarelli (Paterson, NJ, 1960) is the long established jazz notable, equally well known as guitarist and vocalist, son of the venerable and venerated Bucky and brother of bassist Martin.
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John Pizzarelli (Paterson, NJ, 1960) is the long established jazz notable, equally well known as guitarist and vocalist, son of the venerable and venerated Bucky and brother of bassist Martin.

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