Dick Hyman/ Mary Mayo-Moon Gas-'63 Electronic,Jazz/Space-Age-NEW LP

Dick Hyman /  Mary Mayo  ‎– Moon Gas 

Label: Alternative Fox ‎– FOX025 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue

Country: Europe Released: 2020 Genre: Electronic, Jazz Style: Space-Age, Easy Listening

 Adventurous keyboardist and arranger Dick Hyman worked in radio, film and television before making a name for himself as a jazz pianist in the mid-1950s with a hugely popular harpsichord rendition of 'Mack The Knife.' An  early experimenter with electronic instruments, including the Moog, his 1963 rarity 'Moon Gas', produced by Creed Taylor and recorded with Sinatra sidekick and Broadway musical mainstay Mary Mayo, was conceived as "a glimpse of the possible sounds of the 22nd Century." Blasting lounge music and love ballads into the nether regions of outer space, 'Moon Gas' pitted Hyman's organ, mini-organ and piano riffs against Mayo's ethereal voice -sometimes singing wordlessly, other times with
actual lyrics- atop a tight studio ensemble, the sounds made more otherworldly through the use of an ondioline, a martinot, oscillators and Vinnie Bell's customised guitar, which allowed for individualised sound effects. Although improvised opener 'Moon Gas' sounds pleasantly jazzy, 'Maid Of The Moon' and 'Space Reflex' reach the cosmos and there's a one-off rendition of Joao Gilberto's 'Desafinado' too, delivered with skill in Portuguese.

Tracklist

A1 Moon Gas   A2 Maid Of The Moon   A3 Isn't It Odd   A4 Stella By Starlight   A5 Imagination   A6 Space Reflex (Blues In 5/4)   B1 Bye, Bye Blues   B2 They Can't Take That Away From Me   B3 For All We Know   B4 Desafinado (Slightly Out Of Tune)   B5 I'm Glad There Is You   B6 Star Eyes  

Credits

Cover, Photography By – Murray Laden Engineer [Director Of Engineering] – Val Valentin Liner Notes – Leonard Feather Producer – Creed Taylor  

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 5060672883252