Friday, 4 September 2020

Dave Grusin (the famous guy) in a rare jazz album Don't Touch (1977)




A really really odd drawing for the cover, quite bizarre and perhaps attempting to be erotic, but to me it doesn't work.
Information here.  The contents are bizarre too, since I assumed they would be fusion given all the other material he was putting out in the mid to late seventies. But I was wrong, it's just trio format acoustic piano jazz covers of standards--the bane of my early jazz days.

There's a lot of really good music though in his fusioneer explorations, particularly in the 1976 Discovered Again album, which has plenty of wonderful compositions, the Sun Song with its nice Keith Jarrett-like piano chords plus vibes covers a lot of new and interesting compositional territory, I think:




Like with Jun Fukamachi, I put all the stuff together into one large file for limited time only use.
The albums are as follows: 1969 Winning (OST), 1975 Eric (OST), 1976 Discovered Again, 1977 One of a kind, 1977 Don't Touch, 1980 Live in Japan, 1980 Mountain Dance, 1982 LA dream band, 1982 Out of the shadows, 1984 Night Lines, 1989 Fabulous Baker Boys (OST) both album and movie which I really loved back in the day, 11 in total. 1.1 GB coincidentally.
Obviously I left out the execrable Tootsie.  The early soundtracks are really good though, with some well-composed music, sometimes very generic.  The Live in Japan and LA dream band are definitely worth hearing too.  Not the Theme from St. Elsewhere-- boy does that one make me want to puke. Takes you right back, doesn't it?  Chariots of Fire, Theme from St. Elsewhere, Theme from On Golden Pond...




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  2. Thanks a lot!!!
    I searched for details about "Please Don't Touch", as the entry on Discogs doesn't say much of anything. I found an interesting "origin story" of the album:
    http://www.grusin.net/the_real_first_album.htm

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  3. HI Julian, Missed this, any chance of a re-up?

    Best,

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  5. Dear Julian,

    until now I Had 25 Dave Grusin Records, now I got 6 more of this marvellous musician.

    Thank you very much!

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  6. Hello. Found Your blog today - many interesting here...
    Unfortunately this link is expired, is there any possibilities to re-up all this good stuff from Dave Grusin?
    BR.

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  7. new temporary reup
    https://we.tl/t-uy9An6k0Mz

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  8. The link is unfortunately already expired. Wetransfer is very short term. It looks very interesting though...

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  9. Could you reupload Don't Touch LP, please ?
    Thanks !!

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  10. new upload please don't touch:
    https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/z1ujdh

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