Live From New York... It's Dan Bellomy Long Island University Brooklyn, New York Available on CD CD $17 Quantity:   UK Customers Only (PPD): CD 12 GBP Quantity:

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1. Cosi Cosa 2:53
2. Love Is Just Around The Corner 3:30
3. Theme From Ice Castles 6:30
4. Most Beautiful Girl - Lover 3:51
5. Blusette/Gravy Waltz 4:26
6. Someone To Watch Over Me 5:32
7. It's Today 2:23
8. If I Loved You 6:25
9. Beginning To See The Light 3:42
10. Goodnight My Someone 4:63
11. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 2:69
12. Something Wonderful 7:68
 

LIVE FROM NEW YORK ... IT'S DAN BELLOMY
This music was played in what I consider the most wonderful marriage of instrument and acoustic possible. We recorded in June of 1993 at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. The Brooklyn Paramount Wurlitzer and its "room" were a constant source of inspiration during the entire recording session.

COSI COSA begins this set and is from the 1934 Marx Brothers movie A Night At The Opera. It seems to have become my "signature tune" as my friends in England would say! A slightly swinging treatment of LOVE IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER is next and leads into a piece that seems to have been written to be played on a theatre organ, THEME FROM ICE CASTLES. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD coupled with LOVER is next and is played as if the console were ascending from that elusive hiding place of all pipe organs, the pit! BLUSETTE & GRAVY WALTZ are two more well known jazz waltzes and serve to prove that jazz and the theatre pipe organ go perfectly together. George Gershwin certainly came up with a winner when he wrote SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME. Next comes a piece from the pen of Broadway composer Jerry Herman, IT'S TODAY from his show Mame. Richard Rodgers, IF I LOVED YOU follows. I'M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT is another example of truly swinging pipes! GOODNIGHT MY SOMEONE from the Music Man is another ballad that builds from the very soft and pretty to a dramatic conclusion. DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE is this set's last entry to the "swinging pipes category. Probably my all time favorite theatre organ ballad concludes this eclectic grouping of music. SOMETHING WONDERFUL from the King & I is a very powerful piece of music in itself. What better instrument to tell its story than the theatre pipe organ!

This recording session would not have been possible without the sincere efforts of the New York Theatre Organ Society and Bob Walker, the Wurlitzer's caretaker. Bob's constant love and attention to the organ over a period of many years keeps it one of the most satisfying instruments I have ever had the privilege to play. Tonemeister Peter Tague proved to be the perfect recording engineer combining his technical expertise with his knowledge of this particular recording atmosphere.

Heartfelt thanks go to Stu and Rita Hinchliffe without whose cajoling and production assistance, not to mention general belief in me and my work, this project would not have come to pass. Last but certainly not least, ultimate credit for inspiration goes to CRB without whose ever present love and moral support this recording session would probably not have been finished!

Love and thanks to all concerned.
DAN BELLOMY