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At The Jazz Bakery: Retromania

Dave Frishberg, Retromania, at the Jazz Bakery is a timely release for you and your listeners with the start of the 2009 Baseball season. Included in the live set are favorites such as Van Lingle Mungo, Frishberg's first and best known baseball song, and Dodger Blue, as well as Play Ball and Matty, which is about the great pitcher Christy Mathewson, who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its first five inaugural members. Additional material includes a generous helping of music from a baseball-themed musical Frishberg wrote called The Catbird Seat, plus a handful of his perennial requests, including My Attorney Bernie and Can't Take You Nowhere. As this is a live recording, Frishberg imparts spoken intros for the songs that I think you'll find very interesting.

Dave Frishberg:

Do You Miss New York ?

"Once you immerse yourself in Frishbergiana, the constant astonishment can tire you out if you re not careful. This is how to be careful with Dave Frishberg: don t listen to one of his discs more than once a day, even though you re inclined at times to listen to nothing but. Frishberg, who dazzles with word play, exemplifies the high ground of wit, craft and musical imagination, displayed here so generously." Daniel Okrent, writer and editor who has written about jazz for Esquire, Time, Fortune and other publications and was for several years a senior editorial executive at Time, Inc.