John Pizzarelli - My Blue Heaven

John Pizzarelli - My Blue HeavenRecorded in 1990 for the noted New York audiophile label Chesky Records, My Blue Heaven was John Pizzarelli's first significant album release, heralding the arrival of a major talent and future Grammy winning star. Supported by a dream team line up of veteran jazz stars including Pizzarelli's guitar playing father, Bucky, together with trumpeter Clark Terry, bass supremo Milt Hinton, and drummer extraordinaire Connie Kay the New Jersey born singer and

smart writing

There are guest vocals from one of their favorite songwriters Sasami on two tracks and a cast of lively characters assemble to add their lines - Dave Guy on Trumpet

The album opens with "Spitting Nails (Wheel of Fortune)

"Each Ether" and "Interface Your Shattered Dreams" nod to important influences like MBV and Hüsker Dü

and inner sleeves

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This deluxe edition includes a reproduction of the 1969 7” mono picture sleeve single ‘Honky Tonk Women’/’You Can’t Always Get What You Want

" Ferrum Splendidum (the Latin for 'Resplendent Metal') recalls the singer's ancestors

Glen Danzig

" a reimagined re-recording of his bilingual holiday classic

'Moonset 1' with it's wonderful Joe Pass-esque guitar is tense yet easy

The production resists overstatement