Album #1:
NO MORE BLUES FROM THIS MOMENT ON
Over thirty instrumental versions, played by Michel Bonin, including three with vocals, make it LE MUST collection if one is looking for a serene blend of the genres in medley/pot-pourri:
jazz, musique d'ambiance, chanson
The 5:34 min. video version <Michel Bonin in Concert In Vancouver> from Album #1 figured from Spring 2011 to Summer 2013 among the Top Videos on the prestigious WorldNews Jazz Classics Chart. To watch the video, go to YOU TUBE
Below are the tunes with the time in minutes (and the name of the composers in brackets) for the 15 tracks of ALBUM #1
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Track # 1 (medley) 5:02
(a) Angel Eyes (Matt Dennis/Earl Brent)
(b) Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham)
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Track # 2 (medley) 4:42
(a) Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) (Joseph Kosma/Johnny Mercer/Jacques Prévert)
(b) It’s Not For Me To Say (Al Stillman/Robert Allen)
(c) I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do) (Roy Turk/Fred E. Ahlert)
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Track # 3 (medley) 4:36
(a) Beautiful Love (V. Young/W. King/E. Van Alstyne/Haven Gillespie)
(b) I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers)
(c) Bernie’s Tune (Bernie Miller)
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Track # 4 (medley) 4:20
(a) Black Narcissus (Joe Henderson)
(b) All The Things You Are (Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II)
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Track # 5 (medley) 4:06
(a) Blame It On My Mouth (Oscar Levant/Edward Heyman)
(b) It’s All Right With Me (Cole Porter)
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Track # 6 (medley) 4:12
(a) Blues Connotation (Ornette Coleman)
(b) It’s Sand Man (Ed Lewis/Jon Hendricks)
(c) Blue Daniel (Frank Rosolino)
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Track # 7 (medley) 4:58
(a) Breakfast Wine (Randy Aldcroft)
(b) Anthropology (Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie)
(c) Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams)
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Track # 8 (medley) 5:30
(a) Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) (Antonio Carlos Jobim/Joy Hendricks/Jessie Cavanaugh)
(b) But Beautiful (Jimmy Van Heusen/Johnny Burke)
(c) Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams)
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Track # 9 (medley) 3:20
(a) How High The Moon (Nancy Hamilton/Morgan Lewis)
(b) Juke Box Saturday Night (Al Stillman/Paul McGrane)
(c) It’s Only A Paper Moon (Billy Rose/E.Y. Harburg/Harold Arlen)
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Track # 10 (medley) 4:19
(a) I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire (Eddie Seller/Sol Marcus/Bennie Benjamin)
(b) All Of Me (Seymour Simons/Gerald Marks)
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Track # 11 (medley) 4:41
(a) It’s A Blue World (Bob Wright/Chet Forrest)
(b) It’s The Talk Of The Town (Marty Symes/A.J. Neiburg/Jerry Livingston)
(c) I Cried For You (Arthur Freed/Gus Arnheim/Abe Lyman)
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Track # 12 3:31
All Of You* (Cole Porter)
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Track # 13 3:26
From This moment On* (Cole Porter)
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Track # 14 3:15
Aime Moi* (Charles Aznavour/Jacques Plante)
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Track # 15 6:59
Chega De Saudade (No More Blues) Latin Dance Version
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Total Time: 68 minutes
MICHEL BONIN piano and keyboard * Vocals by MICHEL BONIN
Produced, recorded and engineered at Michael Bonin and Associates studio in Vancouver, Canada
Unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited
© 2012 MICHAEL BONIN AND ASSOCIATES All rights reserved
The 15 tracks on Album #1, mostly medleys of over 30 tunes, offer a unique blend of keys, breathing and groove, rhythm and contour (the sequential ups and down of the melodies).
Easy listening of legendary tunes is a reminder that cocktail lounges, bars and clubs were once known as saloons.
Shot down in the early 1920s, one could soon hear live music again amid the whispers at speakeasies: From Freed-Arnheim-Lyman’s “I Cried For You” released in 1923, to the Simons-Marks’ 1931 swing melody “All Of Me”.
Michel vocalizes to three tunes, two of them composed by Cole Porter and one by Charles Aznavour, in a special hommage to two masters with unique contributions to the popular romantic song repertoire coming from a different perspective:
Charles Aznavour shows a sorrowful European style originating from France and beyond. “Aime Moi” (Love Me) shows Aznavour’s genius for the sad romantic composition style, with song lyric by Jacques Plante. It was produced in 1966 for the French Musical "Monsieur Carnaval", after the end of the golden years of French popular music in America.
Cole Porter represents the optimism rooted to the New World. The two tunes sung with English lyric, are from Cole Porter considered by many the master of the American Musical Theater between 1932 and 1954: “All of You” (from "Silk Stockings") and “From This Moment On” (from "Kiss me Kate") flagshipped in the title of this album.