{"id":8070,"date":"2016-12-27T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8070"},"modified":"2016-12-27T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T00:32:59","slug":"triple-gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/12\/triple-gravy\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple Gravy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ray-Brown-smiling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\" \/>Ray Brown (pictured left) wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gravy Waltz,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with a lyric by comedian and talk show host Steve Allen. Allen recorded the piece on piano and got extensive airplay with it in the early 1960s. Jazz listeners, however, tend to think of Oscar Peterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s version as the definitive recording. Peterson recorded it for Verve in 1962 with Brown on bass and Ed Thigpen playing drums\u00e2\u20ac\u201da classic edition of Peterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trio.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZPjcWhlZ7c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dozen of musicians, from Chet Atkins to Maynard Ferguson, Joe Williams and Mel Torm\u00c3\u00a9 have recorded \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gravy Waltz.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d As far as I know, the Rice University Bassoon Trio never made a recording of it, but they played it at a 2011 recital. Fortunately, someone was present with a video camera. The bassoonists are Billy Short, Tommy Morrison and Michael Matushek. Matushek is the one who stands and improvises a solo. This is likely to be the most unusual of all \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gravy Waltzes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ddFOoPNXBM4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally, in case that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not enough gravy for you, here is a duo version of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gravy Waltz\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recorded in Russia in 2005 by pianist Mikhail Valeev and trombonist Eugene Belin.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/67N-LcA5dow\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All I can tell you about that performance and the musicians is that the concert was at Rostov-on-Don, a coastal city in the southeast of Russia\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to hear more of Mikhail Valeev, the pianist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Brown (pictured left) wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gravy Waltz,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with a lyric by comedian and talk show host Steve Allen. Allen recorded the piece on piano and got extensive airplay with it in the early 1960s. Jazz listeners, however, tend to think of Oscar Peterson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s version as the definitive recording. 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