John Simon - CDs for sale

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JOHN SIMON’S ALBUM
(release in Japan of original 1970 Warner Bros. album) - Price: $20 - Order

Song Of The Elves, Nobody Knows, Tannenbaum, Davey’s On The Road Again, Motorcycle Man, Rain Song, Don’t Forget What I Told You, The Fool Dressed In Velvet, Annie Looks Down, Did You See?, Railroad Train Runnin’ Up My Back. (with Delany Bramlett, Harvey Brooks, Rita Coolidge, Rick Danko, Richard Davis, Cyrus Faryar, John Hall, Paul Harris, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Leon Russell, Grady Tate and others) The sample just contains snatches of a few of the songs to jog your memory. You’ll hear members of The Band and John Hall and Harvey Brooks.

JOURNEY
(release in Japan of original 1972 Warner Bros. album) - Price: :$20 - Order

Livin’ In A Land O’ Sunshine, Slim Pickin’s In The Kitchen Don’t Make It At All, Open Up, Summertime, Vagabond, The "Real" Woodstock Rag, Poems To Eat, Big City Traffic Jam, Joy To The World, King Lear’s Blues, Short Visit. (with Dave Bargeron, Randy Brecker, Amos Garrett, Dave Holland, Howard Johnson, Billy Mundi, Dave Poe, Bill Rich, David Sanborn, and others.) This sample strings together a few excerpts from this album which was recorded, for the most part, in 3 days in NYC, Phil Ramone engineering. The live band, pictured at the session, included Dave Sanborn, Dave Holland, Randy Brecker and Howard Johnson.

OUT ON THE STREET
(Vanguard release, 1993) Price: $15 - Order

Two Ways O’ Lookin’ At The Same Thing, Rock and Roll Is An Open Wound, Overpop, Dreamland, Lost, That Lovesong’s Gonna Have To Wait, Out On The Street, Just A Play, Escape, Hummin’ A Summersong, We’re All In This Together. ( with Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Cornelius Bumpus, Ron Carter, Rick Danko, John Hall, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Paul Ramsey, Terry Silverlight, Lew Soloff, Toots Thielemans, Diane Wilson, George Young and others.) This was the first album set up by Yoshi Nagato and the first release of the Pioneer/LDC label in Japan (catalogue number 0001). It was voted one of the 3 best albums of the that year along with albums by Clapton and Peter Gabriel. On the sample you’ll hear Cornelius Bumpus on tenor and Rick and Levon from The Band singing

HARMONY FARM
(release in Japan, 1995) - Price: $15 - Order

Everybody Thinks That I Left Town, Touch Your Heart, Nobody Knows Her Like I Know Her, Rural Rhythms, If At First (Just One Lucky Break), Psalm 91, Uh-oh, Here Comes The Blues, The Good Samaritan, Biography, Little Acts Of Faith, Piano-Playing Fool. (with Harvey Brooks, Junior Brown, Cornelius Bumpus, Jon Burr, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Peter Ecklund, Dave Holland, Doug James, Paul Ramsey, Laura Seaton, Terry Silverlight, and others.) "Harmony Farm" was the 2nd release on Pioneer in Japan and was recorded live in John’s living room. It’s his favorite album. You can hear Cornelius again on this sample, along with one-of-a-kind guitarist Junior Brown.

THE BEST AND BEYOND
("Greatest Hits" plus live performances --release in Japan, 2000) Price: $15 Order

Hummin’ A Summersong, Maple Trees, Everybody Thinks That I Left Town, Lost, That Lovesong’s Gonna Have To Wait, Overpop, Psalm 91, Dreamland, Nobody Knows Her Like I Know Her, Door Jam, Old Folks At Home, Home, Motherless Child … There is no sample for this album for you to listen to here because it’s essentially a "greatest hits" compilation from the 2 Pioneer albums, plus 2 concert cuts and 2 selections from the 3rd Pioneer album, "Home", not yet available through us.

HIRTH MARTINEZ: I’M NOT LIKE I WAS BEFORE
Price: $15 - Order

Old Friends, 5/4 Samba, I’m Not Like I Was Before, Sometimes/Always, The Girl, Busy Man, For The Moment, These Days, Somewhere In The Power Of Her Love, Lonely And Blue, Slowly, All Things Possible (with Dave Sanborn, Ron Carter, Will Lee, Garth Hudson,Cornelius Bumpus, Randy Brecker, Jon Burr, Jeni Muldaur and others.) This is a wonderful album, recorded in the summer of 1998 after Hirth had a hit with his song, "Slowly", in Japan. He has never sounded better and the collection of songs are first-rate. As Hirth calls it in his notes, "… a perfect flower, a perfect sky of poems and music." This album is highly recommended by Donald Fagan of Steely Dan.

HOAGYLAND: THE MUSIC OF HOAGY CARMICHAEL
PRODUCED AND ARRANGED BY JOHN SIMON - Price $15 - Order

Lazy River, Old Buttermilk Sky, The Nearness of You, Georgia on My Mind, Skylark, Baltimore Oriole, Judy, Small Fry, Heart and Soul, Stardust, New Orleans, When Love Goes Wrong, In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening, Rockin’ Chair. (with Steve Forbert, Geoff Muldaur, Jackie Cain, Amos Garrett, Cornelius Bumpus, Garth Hudson, Terry Blaine, Miche Braden, Hirth Martinez, Dave Bargeron, Jon Burr, Jerry Dodgion and others) This album is fantastic! It’s just amazing that no US distributor has picked it up yet. On the sample you can hear Forbert sing a little of "Skylark" and Cornelius sing a little of "Georgia". But no sample this short can do this justice. It’s a wonderfully rich and loving tribute to Hoagy Carmichael on his 101st birthday!

NO BAND
PRODUCED AND ARRANGED BY JOHN SIMON Price $15 - Order

Piano-playing Fool, Two Ways of Lookin’ At The Same Thing, Open Wound, Why Do The Bad Guys Do What They Do, Motorcycle Man, Nobody Knows Her, Spoon Me, Old People With Spunk, Lost , Time Stands Still, Irresistible. ( Piano and vocal only.) In the Spring of 2005 I played a series of solo performances. I thought a lot about which songs to include in my set list. A few of them (“Motorcycle Man”, “Two Ways of Lookin’ At The Same Thing”…) I wrote quite a while ago. A few had never been released. And then, I decided to record them. The result is this new CD. I like it a lot. These recordings aren’t studio-slick. There’s no pitch-correcting machine for my voice. You can hear me stomp on the floor or mumble along with the piano solos. I added a little echo from time to time but basically it’s just me at home with some microphones and my old Mason and Hamlin piano. No band

OUT ON THE STREET
(Vanguard release, 1993) Price: $15 - Order