Songs(24Bit96Khz)

24BIT96 Version available now worldwide. Special Christmas price til 24. dec. One extra bonus track! Wen I fall in Love.

Hope you like it!

I love jazz! Growing up, listening to my father's records I have,  since the age of 8, been playing and trying to learn this music. Firstly, on our old home piano; later, pretending to be Jimmy Smith on my Yamaha Electone Organ (including the silliest electronic rhythmbox ever created). Later, using Fender Rhodes and Synth, and, finally, in my daily rehearsals on the piano I was able to buy at the age of 22.

So why did I never perform this music in concert?

Well... There have been so many interpretations of these beautiful songs. Fantastic versions by fantastic performers. Bill Evans, Errol Garner, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, Keith Jarrett - to just name a genius or two. Likewise, there have been some horrible, destructive versions,  showing off skills in a meaningless, obscure, imaginary competition.

After all those years spending daily hours playing with and around this fantastic song material, I finally felt my versions were personal enough to be recorded, with respect, appreciation and gratitude for those wonderfully beautiful songs!

Bugge Wesseltoft

November 2011

1. Darn that dream 7:58 - Van Heusen

2. My foolish heart 5:17 - Washington/Young

3. How high the moon 6:44 - Morgan Lewis

4. Moon river 5:52 - Henry Mancini

5. Chicken feathers 6:56 - Steve Kuhn

6. Lament 5:26 - J.J. Johnson

7. We ́ll be together again 5:04 - Fischer/Laine

8. Like someone in love 7:07 - Van Heusen/Burke

9. Giant steps 8:30 - John Coltrane

    

   Special Bonus Track - When I Fall In Love

    

    

   Mixed and mastered by Atle Aamodt
   Recorded in Bugges Room, April-September 2011 All photos by Egil Hansen
   Design by Rune Mortensen

   2011 Jazzland