Today's album runs the gamut from frantic to frenetic, though I'm not sure which one means that you're more overcaffeinated than the other. In the liner notes, Mort Goode tell us that this album is "a ride that is as exciting and scenic and up-dated as the rhythm of a rocket". Wow, another writer who mangles a metaphor as badly as I do! Cool. Hey, isn't Mort Goode the cartoonist who did Beetle Bailey? I don't really know.
Mort Goode also seems to think that Frank Ortega invented the technique of strumming the strings inside a piano, and since he doesn't know what else to call it, he opts for "Piano pizzicato", which doesn't account for the glissando effect. Well, Mort, Henry Cowell used the effect in the early 1920s, and probably stole it from some rural black guy or something to begin with judging by the rest of American musical history. And here Whitey surely like to keep a brother down, Ortega uses the "string piano" thing so often on this album it kinda gets on your nerves.
Note to the regular visitor who collects versions of The Third Man Theme, here is another one you probably don't have yet!
Swingin' Abroad - Frank Ortega
Jubilee 1080 In "Superlaphonic Hi-fi", whatever the hell that is.
2 comments:
Thanks for another Third Man. I just searched my main download drive after getting this one, and I have 25 versions. There might be more on my storage drives. I even have one which is Anton Karas performing live on a German TV show in 1982. I'm developing a list for a number of VA files when I start music blogging.
cenrtainly could be stole from some rural black guy, you couldn't be more right, and the "possibly" maybe should be noticed as pure formality
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