Product Description

Most people know Marian McPartland more from her many jazz recordings and her long-running Piano Jazz National Public Radio program than for her many compositions. Marian has collaborated with an astonishing catalog of lyricists including Loonis McGlohon, Irving Caesar, Peggy Lee and Johnny Mercer, to name a few. Her best-known tunes include "Twilight World" (lyrics by Johnny Mercer, sung by Tony Bennett) and "In the Days of Our Love" (lyrics by Peggy Lee, sung by Cleo Laine). Her composition, "Threnody," was written for pianist Mary Lou Williams. Harmonically sophisticated, yet extremely moving, Marian's tunes provide a wide range of musical material for performers and arrangers. Diana's arrangements and performances were recorded on a Macintosh G5 using Cubase SX, MOTU 896HD, Stylus RMX, Fxpansion's BFD, Miroslav Philharmonic VST, Spectrasonics Trilogy, a Kurzweil K2000R and a Yamaha P120 keyboard controller. SPECIAL THANKS: To my brothers David Robinson and Bob Robinson, both incredible musicians in their own right. Thanks to my mother Joann Robinson, for the gift of music and those early years of piano lessons, and to my father, Robert Robinson, whose innovative style of piano improvisation has always astonished me. To my husband, Jack for all his love and support through it all. Thanks to Guy Remonko who taught me how to listen to jazz trio recordings and in doing so taught me all about musical textures and arranging. Thanks to Ron Socciarelli for introducing me to Alec Wilder who led me to Marian all those years ago. Thanks to Marian for her friendship, support and encouragement for over 25 years.

Track Listing

1. There'll Be Other Times
2. Willow Creek
3. Time and Time Again
4. Stranger In A Dream
5. In the Days of Our Love
6. So Many Things
7. With You In Mind
8. Echoes of Yesterday
9. Twilight World
10. Melancholy Mood
11. Castles In the Sand

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #802192 in Music
• Released on: 2006-01-23
• Number of discs: 1

About the Artist
Diana Robinson is a keyboardist, arranger, composer, computer musician, producer, photographer and avid kayaker. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Music
The music is played beautifully by Diana Robinson
The selections are very nice too.

Great remakes of classic Marian tunes
This cd is loaded with great versions of classic Marian tunes.
Diana Robinson was able to capture the essence of each tune. She took this a step further by using drum grooves and solos that add a "modern" feel to these great songs!
Nice keyboard work!