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Alf Wager Trio
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| 1. | What Is This Thing Called Love? 2:39 | 1.00€ |
| 2. | Taking a Change on Love 2:45 | 1.00€ |
| 3. | House Built for Two 4:06 | 1.00€ |
| 4. | Ain't Misbehavin' 3:30 | 1.00€ |
| 5. | My Melancholy Baby 2:53 | 1.00€ |
| 6. | Bei Dir War es immer so schön 2:26 | 1.00€ |
| 7. | Moonlight and Shadows 2:17 | 1.00€ |
| 8. | Rosetta 2:49 | 1.00€ |
| 9. | Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? 2:32 | 1.00€ |
| 10. | It's Sin to Tell a Lie 2:42 | 1.00€ |
| 11. | I can't Get Started 2:31 | 1.00€ |
| 12. | Polka Dots and Moonbeams 2:57 | 1.00€ |
| 13. | I Can't Gibe You Anything but Love 4:10 | 1.00€ |
| 14. | My Foolish Heart 2:28 | 1.00€ |
| 15. | Sweet Lorraine 2:29 | 1.00€ |
| 16. | Music, Mastro, Please 2:12 | 1.00€ |
| 17. | La vie en rose 1:56 | 1.00€ |
| 18. | Sag beim Abshcied lese Serwus 1:36 | 1.00€ |
| 19. | Sulle salaisuuden kertoa mä voisin 1:34 | 1.00€ |
| 20. | Mellangård 1:39 | 1.00€ |
| 21. | La fillette 2:58 | 1.00€ |
Alf Wager Trio
The collection of jazz standards and other evergreens on this album has been characteristic of Finnish pianist Alf Wager’s repertoire since his days in the piano bars and dance restaurants of Helsinki in the late 1940s. Alf is accompanied by Swiss drummer Alain Petitmermet, as well as his son Hannu Wager on a 7-string fretless bass.The album includes some original pieces. Mark Lawrence, a Canadian jazz and rock singer and songwriter, joins the trio to sing “House Built for Two,” a jazz ballad he lyricized to Hannu’s composition. “Mellangård and “La Fillette” are written by Alf. The latter is a waltz in the French tradition that Alf wrote in the early 1950s. It gets authentic treatment by Denis Croisonnier, a French accordionist who is equally comfortable with French varieté, jazz, and classical music. Denis is accompanied by Stèphan Mauclaire on acoustic guitar and Stéphane Fisch on double bass.
The album was recorded in June 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland.