I Get A Kick Out Of You
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Joe Bushkin
Cover Photography: Gleb Derujinsky
Design: Bob Cato
Cole Porter Photography: Richard Avedon
Notes: Gilbert Millstien of The New York Times
Capitol ST 1030
From the back cover: The jet plane pictured on the cover of this album, "I Get A Kick Out Of Cole Porter," is the Grumman Navy Cougar (F9F-8T), and the man standing on its cockpit, prepared, like the slender sky chaser, for imminent ascent – is Joe Bushkin, the pianist, composer and arranger. Minutes afterward, he was airborne tens of thousands of feet at a speed exceeding that of sound. There is nothing tangential in the selection of such a photograph for such an album. For Buskin, jet flight synthesizes the meaning of the music of Cole Porter, a selection of whose songs he was, at the time, getting ready to record. That meaning of Porter's remarkable, continuing contemporaneity; his immediacy, as urgent today as decades ago; his melodic and lyric insights, as acute and free of anachronism as they were before rocketry became a commonplace, psychoanalysis a parlor game and sophistication the property of the majority. What moved Bushkin is probably best expressed in a lyric of one of the songs he recorded, "Just One Of Those Things": "It was just one of those nights, /Just one of those fabulous flights... A trip to the moon on gossamer wings.../ Just one of those things."
1959
From the back cover: The jet plane pictured on the cover of this album, "I Get A Kick Out Of Cole Porter," is the Grumman Navy Cougar (F9F-8T), and the man standing on its cockpit, prepared, like the slender sky chaser, for imminent ascent – is Joe Bushkin, the pianist, composer and arranger. Minutes afterward, he was airborne tens of thousands of feet at a speed exceeding that of sound. There is nothing tangential in the selection of such a photograph for such an album. For Buskin, jet flight synthesizes the meaning of the music of Cole Porter, a selection of whose songs he was, at the time, getting ready to record. That meaning of Porter's remarkable, continuing contemporaneity; his immediacy, as urgent today as decades ago; his melodic and lyric insights, as acute and free of anachronism as they were before rocketry became a commonplace, psychoanalysis a parlor game and sophistication the property of the majority. What moved Bushkin is probably best expressed in a lyric of one of the songs he recorded, "Just One Of Those Things": "It was just one of those nights, /Just one of those fabulous flights... A trip to the moon on gossamer wings.../ Just one of those things."
From Billboard - March 23, 1959: Bushkin steps out in front of a sizable complement of brass and woodwinds to take the lively solos on this collection of Cole Porter evergreens. Some of the best are here, like "Night And Day," "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Begin The Beguine," etc., and they are all essayed with a danceable beat. Stereo is good but in this case it's the repertoire that's the drawing card. Smart background set also could draw air spins.
I Get A Kick Out Of You
I Get A Kick Out Of You
I've Got You Under My Skin
Night And Day
Begin The Beguine
Get Out Of Town
In The Still Of The Night
So In Love
Love For Sale
Let's Do It
Where Have You Been
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Just One Of Those Things
Lots of REALLY nice stuff in this latest batch of posts! I'll be looking for alot of these.
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