Caravan In The Night
Eddie Heywood
With Joe Reisman And His Orchestra
Conducted and Produced by Joe Reisman
Recording Engineer: Ray Hall
Supervised by Hugo Winterhalter
Recorded in New York, September and October, 1958
RCA LPM-1900
1959
Witchcraft, All The Way, The Piccolino and Land Of Dreams arranged by Eddie Heywood. Hurricane arranged by Sid Ramin. St. Louis Blues, Virgin Isle Vamp and Rendezvous arranged by Joe Reisman. Caravan In The Night, Cappuccino and Pom-Pom arranged by Jimmy Mundy.
1959
Witchcraft, All The Way, The Piccolino and Land Of Dreams arranged by Eddie Heywood. Hurricane arranged by Sid Ramin. St. Louis Blues, Virgin Isle Vamp and Rendezvous arranged by Joe Reisman. Caravan In The Night, Cappuccino and Pom-Pom arranged by Jimmy Mundy.
From the back cover: The sly and crafty fingers of Eddie Heywood, which have drawn from the keys of innumerable pianos a variety of music, take us on a versatile musical excursion in these selections. To give each piece its most appropriate frame, Eddie has used a multitude of imaginative backgrounds in this album. Weaving in and out of the various instrumentations are Eddie and the piano keys that have formed such a rewarding partnership over the years.
The tunes Eddie has chosen for this collection reflect the diverse paths that he has followed since the day he became the piano soloist in a theater band in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 14. Heywood first gained fame as a jazz pianist, a period which he recalls in W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues and more specifically in Pom-Pom, which was written by the great jazz saxophonist and trumpeter, Benny Carter. Irving Berlin's The Piccolino is a tune that Eddie featured with great success in the Forties when he was broadening his base from jazz to a wider audience, and his inclusion of such recent popular hits as All the Way and Witchcraft show how he has sustained that early talent for bringing his own personal touch the inimitable Heywood sound – to songs of every period.
More recently Eddie has had great success in exploring the more exotic side of music, a side which he shows off in the insistent eeriness of Caravan in the Night, the soulful Rendezvous, and two suggestions of foreign lands, Madeira and Cappuccino. And, of course, since he wrote Canadian Sunset Eddie Heywood has been counted among the most melodic of popular composers. So, to provide the complete decoration for this rounded picture of his adventures with the keys, he has included three strikingly different samples of his compositions – Hurricane, Virgin Isle Vamp and the apt closing theme, Land of Dreams.
One key to Eddie's popularity is the multiple facets of his talent, but there are 88 other keys that unlock the door to his special world. Fortu- nately, they are right at his fingertips. – WATSON WYLIE
The tunes Eddie has chosen for this collection reflect the diverse paths that he has followed since the day he became the piano soloist in a theater band in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 14. Heywood first gained fame as a jazz pianist, a period which he recalls in W. C. Handy's St. Louis Blues and more specifically in Pom-Pom, which was written by the great jazz saxophonist and trumpeter, Benny Carter. Irving Berlin's The Piccolino is a tune that Eddie featured with great success in the Forties when he was broadening his base from jazz to a wider audience, and his inclusion of such recent popular hits as All the Way and Witchcraft show how he has sustained that early talent for bringing his own personal touch the inimitable Heywood sound – to songs of every period.
More recently Eddie has had great success in exploring the more exotic side of music, a side which he shows off in the insistent eeriness of Caravan in the Night, the soulful Rendezvous, and two suggestions of foreign lands, Madeira and Cappuccino. And, of course, since he wrote Canadian Sunset Eddie Heywood has been counted among the most melodic of popular composers. So, to provide the complete decoration for this rounded picture of his adventures with the keys, he has included three strikingly different samples of his compositions – Hurricane, Virgin Isle Vamp and the apt closing theme, Land of Dreams.
One key to Eddie's popularity is the multiple facets of his talent, but there are 88 other keys that unlock the door to his special world. Fortu- nately, they are right at his fingertips. – WATSON WYLIE
St. Louis Blues
Hurricane
Witchcraft
Virgin Isle Vamp
All The Way
Caravan In The Night
Rendezvous
The Piccolino
Maderia
Cappuccino
Pom Pom
Land Of Dreams
Hurricane
Witchcraft
Virgin Isle Vamp
All The Way
Caravan In The Night
Rendezvous
The Piccolino
Maderia
Cappuccino
Pom Pom
Land Of Dreams
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