David Liebman

Songs For My Daughter is a set of pieces David Liebman recorded with his working group in May 1994 and released by Soul Note in 1995. The subject is in the titles: Little Peanut, Arrival, For Lydia, Tomato Face, Papoose, Mommie's Eyes. The record ends with Lydia Liebman herself singing You Are My Sunshine for just over a minute. It came in a productive season for the band, which also cut the Miles Davis programme Miles Away in the same studio in March 1994 and returned there for Voyage in May 1995.

The sessions were held at Red Rock Studios in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, with Kent Heckman as engineer and Liebman as producer. Gennaro Carone mastered the tapes at PhonoComp near Milan, Maria Bonandrini made the cover art and the photographs are by Caris Visentin. Liebman plays soprano saxophone and wooden flute, with Phil Markowitz on piano, Vic Juris on acoustic and electric guitar, Tony Marino on acoustic and electric bass and Jamey Haddad on drums and percussion. Scott Cutshall adds percussion on Sins Of The Fathers. Liebman wrote all the music except For Lydia, composed by Caris Visentin, and the traditional closing song. The pieces mostly run six to nine minutes. The longest are Sins Of The Fathers and Innocence, both close to nine minutes, and Tomato Face is the shortest band track at about five. Juris and Marino both move between acoustic and electric instruments over the session.

This is the Soul Note CD 121295-2, first released in 1995.