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Do I Hear A Waltz? Jack Gustafson at his studio Kimball Pipe Organ
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To hear samples of the tracks on this cd,
click on the track names below.
(The player will continue to play each sample in
sequence after your selection - click the pause or close button on the player to
stop it)
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 Thoroughly Modern Millie, Do it Again, Jimmy, Baby Face
10
Too Late Now
11 Do I Hear A Waltz?
12 Blue
Moon
13 Finian's Rainbow
Some thoughts about my recording: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