Colin Redfern
Songs I Never Played for my Grandfather
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Jazz-flavored solo piano interpretations of songs by Jerome Kern, Rodgers & Hart, Harold Arlen, Anthony Newley, Victor Young, Barry Manilow, etc
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- 1 Stella by Starlight
- 2 Memories of You
- 3 I'm Old Fashioned
- 4 When October Goes
- 5 What Kind of Fool am I ?
- 6 Autumn in New York/Manhattan
- 7 Laura
- 8 All the Things You Are
- 9 The Masquerade is Over
- 10 I've Got the World on a String
- 11 Everything Happens to Me
- 12 Here's That Rainy Day
- 13 Autumn Leaves
- 14 I Fall in Love Too Easily
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Colin's musical career started in the south of England, where it was soon interrupted by two years with the Royal Marines Band, playing piano in the Oceanaires dance orchestra and alto sax in the military band. This tour of duty included two visits to Canada, taking part in the British Columbia centenary celebrations in Vancouver and playing at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, as well as a tour of Scandinavia, playing with the band in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. If you ever find yourself watching an old movie called "Indiscreet", with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, look out for the Royal Marines dance band in the ballroom scene. The pianist's moment of fame lasted for about four seconds, so don't blink.....
This was followed by a couple of summers on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, playing piano with a trio, while the winter months were spent in France with a quintet. And then six months of work on the island of Abaco in the Bahamas somehow led to eighteen years playing the piano at Abaco's Treasure Cay resort. From there it was a short hop to south Florida, where Colin works with groups of all sizes, ranging from trios to 16-piece orchestras. For fans of his music on both sides of the Atlantic, this CD contains his own solo interpretations of some of everybody's favorite songs by composers such as Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Anthony Newley and Victor Young - and including one of the most underrated ballads of recent years, Barry Manilow's "When October Goes".
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Classic popular songs performed with jazz, class and fun!
author: Bill RoseenColin Redfern sounds better than ever in this 2005 collection of standards. I've now played parts of this CD to a variety of friends, each having their own favorites. Autumn in New York and When October Goes are two of mine. Colin plays the piano the way Tiger Woods plays golf - it seems too effortless to be this smooth and good!
Redfern shines in a rich palette of classic songs
author: HewittOn this new piano CD, Colin Redfern floats and ripples his way through fourteen well-chosen, mostly bittersweet standards, in his own lush and jazz-influenced style. Redfern has fine virtuoso ability, and yet he plays without any egotistical grand-standing or other flashy gimmickry that would block the listener from the deep and full appreciation of the beauty of these songs. If you want to feel pampered and relaxed, if you want to be swept away on rose-tinted clouds of music, if you want to walk down a luscious 'memory lane' of classic songs, then this CD is for you.