Gelb, Howe - Future Standards

NEW VINYL LP ON FIRE RECORDS 2016

180 GRAM VINYL

These are Future Standards by The Howe Gelb Piano Trio, taking an outsider view of early gospel and rhythm and blues both part of the American musical socialization that he touched on with 2006's Sno Angel. Now he's on a jazz-tinged trip, bending the genre, taking it back to his shack. On Future Standards, Gelb duets with the equally laconic Lonna Kelley as the pair come on like a seasoned duo managed by Broadway Danny Rose in Woody Allen's film of the same name. Gelb's piano sinks to a pedal-depressed ambience as his cavalier vocal boasts of new love and faded times, all In the best tradition of the American Songbook that he's pretty damn cleverly adding a new volume to.

Tracklist

Terribly So
Irresponsible Lovers
A Book You've Read Before
Relevant
Ownin' It
Clear
Impossible Thing
The Shiver Revisited
Mad Man At Large
May You Never Fall In Love
Sweet Confusion
Mad Man At Home