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decades

 

  
PLEASE USE THE CONTROLS BELOW THE ALBUM COVER TO LISTEN TO THE SONGS
  1. Manhattan
  2. New York State of Mind
  3. Once Upon a Time
  4. My Sweet Lady
  5. Easy Come, Easy Go
  6. Blackbird
  7. Here's That Rainy Day
  8. Bridge Over Troubled Water
  9. Early Autumn
  10. I Didn't Know About You
  11. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  12. Misty
  13. They Way We Were
  14. In My Life
  15. You Keep Coming Back Like a Song
  1. Two for the Road
  2. Both Sides Now
  3. Isn't it a Pity
  4. Send in the Clowns
  5. Some Other Time
  6. American Tune
  7. You Are Too Beautiful
  8. But Beautiful
  9. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You
  10. Let's Make the Most of a Beautiful Thing
  11. Just the Way You Are
  12. Skylark
  13. The Last Thing On My Mind
  14. A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening

      A good example of contrasting styles can be heard on the first two songs (the only ones, on this otherwise solo piano album, that feature Dmitri Kolesnik on bass) – from the '20s. the Rodgers and Hart classic, Manhattan (#1), followed by Billy Joel's evocative New York State of Mind (#2) from the '70's. We move from there to the album's title song, Charles Strouse's beautiful Once Upon a Time (#3), written in the '60's but with a melancholy quality that places it back among the fine ballads of earlier years. I dedicated this album to my mother, Marcella Freund, who was about to celebrate her 100th birthday, and included one of her (and my) favorites, Jimmy Van Heusen's But Beautiful (#23).