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Brani
1.Ain?T Misbehavin?
2.Yesterdays
3.What Is This Thing Called Love
4.Chopin Prelude
5.Lazy Bones
6.Where Or When
7.Sometimes I?M Happy
8.Embraceable You
9.Poor Butterfly
10.Jelly Roll Blues
11.I Ain'T Got Nobody
12.Black Beauty
13.Honeysuckle Rose
14.Rosetta
15.Jumpin' At The Woodside
16.Night In Tunisia
17.Django
18.Scruby
19.Western Reunion
Brad Richman
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2012
Over the past year, I have enjoyed discovering some lesser known jazz artists via the Fresh Sound label. This reissue featuring pianist Enrique Villegas contains two albums originally released on the Columbia label -- "Introducing Villegas" from 1955 and "Very, Very Villegas" from 1957. Both albums are studio trio recordings made in New York City with bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Cozy Cole. Originally from Argentina with a background in both classical and jazz, Villegas came to the States in the hopes of making a name for himself playing the latter. Echoes of his classical roots can be found in his playing throughout these sessions, though they are most notably heard in his jazzy rendition of Chopin's most famous Prelude. His style reminds me of Andre Previn, though I suppose comparisons could also be made with Friedrich Gulda. While I have only bought a couple dozen Fresh Sound CDs to date, if others are as good as this, I might be collecting this label like I have Blue Note and OJC.
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