Artist: The Dave McKenna Quartet feat. Gray Sargent
Album: No More Ouzo for Puzo
Genre: Swing, Stride, Piano Jazz
Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 1989
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Look for the Silver Lining (Kern-DeSylva) - 4:57
- Shake Down the Stars (Van Heusen-DeLange) - 5:29
- Smile (Parsons-Chaplin-Turner) - 5:25
- Lonesome Me (Conrad-Razaf-Waller) - 3:22
- For You, For Me, For Evermore (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 4:40
- No More Ouzo for Puzo (McKenna) - 6:16
- You and I (Wilson) - 5:18
- I Keep Going Back to Joe's (Fisher-Segal) - 6:06
- You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me (Connor-Fain-Kahal) - 4:43
- Talk Medley: Talk to Me (Kahan-Snyder)/The Talk of the Town (Kahn-Cohn)/Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Clare-Stept) - 9:54
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- Personnel:
- Dave McKenna - piano
- Gray Sargent - guitar
- Monty Budwig - bass
- Jimmie Smith - drums
Despite the ambiguous meaning of the title cut (Puzo is for a jazz fan, Charlie Puzo, but "ouzo" is never defined), the music on this quartet set is easy to understand. Pianist Dave McKenna teams up with guitarist Gray Sargent (a new discovery at the time), bassist Monty Budwig and drummer Jimmie Smiths for memorable renditions of a few standards (including an uptempo "Look for the Silver Lining," a sensitive "Smile," and "You Brought A New Kind of Love to Me"), a few obscurities ("I Keep Going Back to Joe's" is not performed too often), and the original title cut. The interplay between McKenna and Sargent, along with the individual solos, make this another excellent entry in the pianist's extensive output for Concord.
Review by Scott Yanow