Remembered Face/Private Places (2001)

About this title: For his second album, Seattle-based Ben Black has chosen to offer a play list running from familiar songs from the musical theater through Irish medleys to obscure Armenian folk music. Present are all the trappings for a melancholy mood that seems to be the minor theme for this session. There's the floating flute of Brenda Kay Neth on "Chinar Es" and her penny whistle on the Irish medley of "My Wild Irish Rose" and "Danny Boy," with the gently rolling cymbals throughout by John Bishop all resting on the expressive pianism of Marc Seales or Gary Fukushima. Using all of this support, and more, ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Remember [Sondheim]
2. Bali Ha'i/You've Got to Be Carefully Taught/Younger Than Springtime [Hammerstein/Rodgers]
3. A Felicidade [Jobim/DeMoraes]
4. Wait Till You See Her [Rodgers/Hart]
5. Chinar Es [Unknown]
6. Kojo No Tsuki [Taki/Doi]
7. Somewhere [Bernstein/Sondheim]
8. Si Tu No Estas [Arbelo]
9. Danny Boy/My Wild Irish Rose [Traditional]
10. Old Friend/Old Friends [Ford/Cryer/Sondheim]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.