John Mehegan
Casual Affair (LP)
LabelTJ Records, Mythic SoundGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / NM
Edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies.
Away from the lectern and the textbooks, John Mehegan was a perfectly capable working pianist with a light touch and an encyclopaedic command of the repertoire, which is what Casual Affair puts on display. Standards, played by a man who had analysed every one of them in print, with the harmonic substitutions of somebody who genuinely knows what he is doing rather than reaching for effect. There is a particular pleasure in hearing a theorist play: nothing is accidental, every voicing has been thought about, and yet it swings perfectly well.
TJ Records pressing. Small-label piano jazz from the man who taught half of New York how to do it.
Release notes
Recorded May 28 - June 2 1959, in T. J. Record Corp. Box 37 Rockaway Park 94, New York On the label another number: MG 78462 1985 edition limited to 1000 albums
| A1 | With A Song In My Heart | 4:20 | |
| A2 | Baubles, Bangles And Beads | 6:00 | |
| A3 | Once Again In Love | 5:07 | |
| A4 | Can't We Be Friends | 6:25 | |
| B1 | Evelyn | 7:50 | |
| B2 | Young And Foolish | 3:23 | |
| B3 | Blues De Sad | 6:51 |
- Ernie Furtado
- Bass
- Chuck Wayne
- Guitar
- John Mehegan
- Piano
- Kenny Dorham
- Trumpet
