Live from Studio A New York City Johnny Frigo with Bucky & John Pizzarelli

• 1 Pick Yourself Up And Start All Over Again 03:00
• 2 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 06:43
• 3 Detour Ahead 04:17
• 4 Just Friends 03:20
• 5 Estrellita 02:29
• 6 Stompin' At The Savoy 04:01
• 7 Early Autumn 04:59
• 8 You Stepped Out Of A Dream 03:17
• 9 In A Sentimental Mood 05:12
• 10 The Song Is You 04:03
• 11 I'm Through With Love 04:01
• 12 Summer Me, Winter Me 02:32
• 13 Tangerine 03:15
• 14 I'll Never Be The Same 03:28
• Total Runtime 54:37

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"Live from Studio A in New York City" is an album by violinist Johnny Frigo. It was his second album as leader and came over 30 years after his debut. This was also the first album recorded by Chesky Records.

Bucky Pizzarelli and Johnny frigo met for the first time at Dick Gibson's annual jazz party in Denver in September, 1988, just two months before this album was made. Bucky remembered Frigo as a member of the brilliant trio called the Soft Winds that came out of Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra in the mid-40's. It consisted of Lou Carter on piano, Frigo who was then playing bass, and on guitar, young Herb Ellis.

Frigo may not have heard Bucky when he was touring with Vaughn Monroe's band in the early '50s, but he became aware of his guitar work in the 1970s when Bucky played in celebrated guitar duos with Georga Barnes and Tony Mottola and when he was in the "Tonight Show" band before it moved to California from New York.

At the Gibson party, frigo and Bucky descovered aech other while they were waiting to go onstage. There they started a conversation thet (once they got to know aech other musically, having played together for 2 or 3 hours--Bucky on his seven string guitar and Frigo on violin) they countinued later that ninght in a quiet corner.

"He was fabulous!" Bucky exclaimed later. "Shades of Joe Venutil! He really got into the fiddle."

When Frigo had returned to Chicago, where he had made a very good living playing bass on commercials for the past 30 years, and Bucky was back to home in New Jersey, Dave Chesky asked Bucky to make an acoustic guitar album. Chesky wanted to get a violinist on the gig. Bucky, still excited from his meeting with Frigo, enthusiastically suggested him.

The recording was done in RCA's legendary Studio A in New York in order to capture all the clear, pure nuances of the two acoustic instruments.

'We used only mike and no amplifiers.' Bucky explained. "John, my son, and I used old guitars like the ones they used to use in big bands instead of the seven-string guitars that we usually use now. We made the album in the old fashioned way. We sat around the mike--the five of us: Johnny Frigo, my son John, Michael Moor or Ron Carter on bass, Butch Miles on drums and me--and we just played. There was no splicing. No earphones. It put everybody on a sharp edge to get it done right."

The variety and drive and ensemble depth of the quitet is quickly made apparent on "Pick Yourself Up" which opens with a lively Bach-like statement followed by a fiery violin solo that show Frigo's polished versatility and then a single string guitar solo by John Pizzarelli and a chorded one by Bucky. Bucky's guitar is always heard on the right, John's on the left.

"Tangerine" and "Detour Ahead" have special meaning for frigo. He played "Tangerine", one of the Jimmy Dorsey's band's big hits, when he was the band's bassist while "Detour Ahead" was written by the three Soft Winds--Lou Carter, Herb Ellis, and Frigo--who made it a hit in 1948.

On "Estrellita" and "I'll Never be the Smae" the group cuts down to a trio--no drums, no bass--as Frigo is featured, backed by the two guitars in the romantic style that he feels is one of his special qualities on violin. And on "Stompin' at the Savoy" even Frigo is gone, leaving the two Pizzarellis as a duo, playing their seven-string amplified guitars instead of the acoustic ones because, without a bassist, they needed to make use of the bass lines that the seventh string provides.

"At the age of 71, Johnny Frigo finally had his debut as a leader on record, with the exception of an obscure effort in 1957. Although he had spent much of his career as a studio bassist, Frigo successfully switched full-time to his first love, the violin, and was immediately considered one of the top swing-based violinists. Joined by both Bucky and John Pizzarelli on guitars, either Ron Carter or Michael Moore on bass, and drummer Butch Miles, Frigo is in wonderful form on 14 standards, including "Pick Yourself Up," "Detour Ahead" (which he had co-written while with the Soft Winds in the late '40s), "Stompin' at the Savoy" and "The Song Is You." This recommended album launched the Chesky label." 8 Scott Yanow, AMG)

Johnny Frigo, violin
John Pizzarelli, guitar (left size)
Bucky Pizzarelli, guitar (right side)
Ron Carter, double bass (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Michael Moore, double bass (tracks 9-13)
Butch Miles, drums

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