Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Mal Waldron

I'll Be Around brings together the Italian singer Tiziana Ghiglioni, trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Mal Waldron in ten standards, recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milan on 25 July and 1 August 1989 and issued by Soul Note in 1991. There is no bass or drums. Voice, trumpet and piano carry the songs alone, from Am I Blue? and They Can't Take That Away From Me to Darn That Dream and the title song.

Giancarlo Barigozzi engineered the sessions, the master was made at PhonoComp near Milan by Gennaro Carone, and Art Lange wrote the liner notes. Waldron came to the date from a busy year with the label: on 10 June 1989 he had recorded in New York with a quintet of Sonny Fortune, Ricky Ford, Reggie Workman and Eddie Moore, music that Soul Note issued as Crowd Scene and Where Are You. The ballad Where Are You? returns here in the trio's version. The longest performances are the slow ones, You Don't Know What Love Is at over seven minutes and Am I Blue? at six, while Yesterdays and But Not for Me are both under two and a half minutes. Glad to Be Unhappy and All or Nothing at All complete a programme drawn largely from the Broadway and Hollywood songbook.

This is the Soul Note CD 121256-2, first released in 1991.