Do I Hear A Waltz? Jack Gustafson at his studio Kimball Pipe Organ     Available on CD CD $17 Quantity:   UK Customers Only (PPD): CD 12 GBP Quantity:

 

 

1 Poinciana
2 Medley–Nice Work If You Can Get It, A Foggy Day, Something’s Gotta Give
3 It Might As Well Be Spring
4 The Continental (original version)
5 Spring is Here
6 Thanks for The Memory (Bob Hope)
7 1970’s Medley-Goin’ out of My Head, Yesterday, El Condor Pasa, The Look of Love, I Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You
8 But Beautiful
9 Chattanooga Choo Choo
10 I Want to Be Loved
11 Thoroughly Modern Millie, Do it Again, Jimmy, Baby Face 12 Too Late Now
13 The Rickety Rickshaw Man
14 Do I Hear A Waltz?

Some thoughts about my recording:
The organ heard on this recording was a dream of mine in the year 1955, only 53 years ago. My small 5 rank organ was assembled in the basement of my parents’ small 3 bedroom home in Elmhurst, Illinois thanks to the carpenter skills of my father. Thru the years its size soon grew to 8 ranks. In 1967 I decided to move to California and left my dream in very good care of my parents. It remained there until 1979 until the new house was built in San Jose, Ca, which would be it’s new home. For 23 years it would be played and enjoyed by hundreds. And as before it size seemed to grow! It now has 13 ranks with no more room to enlarge it again. After remaining in the San Jose area for years, Richard my partner and I decided to move from the area to Southern CA. The year was 2001, not a good year to sell or move but we did it. Now the 3 manual 14 rank organ is installed in its final resting place (I hope). After all the years of my playing and countless hours of work on the instrument, this is a recording of my dream. I hope you enjoy it. I have run out of room to enlarge it (again) and don’t have the desire or energy to move it again.
The recording is just as you hear it in the room with no reverb added. Some sounds can be heard from the swell shutters closing on soft musical passages. It is not a large room for a 14 rank organ (28’x16’x10’) but as you can hear, volume wise, it is very well balanced.
JACK GUSTAFSON