Triple 12 Trio - This Masquerade (George Benson)

Tres Palabras (Osvaldo Farres)

Bebe (Hermeto Pascoal)

My Foolish Heart

V.S.T. (Stefan Sirbu)

When I Fall In Love (Victor Young)

A live rendition of "Tres Palabras" by Osvaldo Farres (who could neither read nor write music but became nevertheless an acclaimed composer) with Ben Rubens on double bass and Ben Zweig on drums. Recorded live at Scholes Street Studio, Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, May 7, 2019.

Stefan Sirbu Trio // "Tres Palabras" (Osvaldo Farres)

Goodbye (sometimes written Good-Bye) is a song written by American composer and arranger Gordon Jenkins, published in 1935. It became well known as the closing theme song of the Benny Goodman orchestra. Jenkins had written the song when working with the Isham Jones orchestra, and Jones allegedly rejected it as it was "too sad". Music critic Alec Wilder described "Goodbye" as "as sad a song I know" and Leonard Feather called it among his "top ten songs it would be hardest to tire of hearing". Here is an interpretation by Triple 12 Trio: Yves Gissy (dr), Stefan Sirbu (p), Jean-Luc Miotti (b). Live @ KiK, Offenburg, May 3, 2013.

Good-Bye (by Gordon Jenkins)

It's ten years since I've written and played this ballad. This version, the first ever played in 2003 a Thursday night jam-session at the Black Elephant Underground Club in Chisinau, Moldova, remains the most heart-felt one. I was fortunate enough to have it interpreted by the then most proficient Moldovan tenor-saxophonist, Vadim Ostroukhov, who just returned from a prolonged stay in the Netherlands and was extremely eager to play original music. He managed to give this tune an incredible sense of drama contrasting with the rather impressionistic piano playing that I used to be sporting at that time. The other two quartet members were Alex Zavalii on drums and Serguey Formanchuk on double-bass. The short-lived Freetet project adding Dmitri Sergheev as a second woodwind player originated in these sessions back in 2003.

That Very Vienne (by Stefan Sirbu) - Live @ The Black Elephant (2003)

Latest release: https://stefansirbu.bandcamp.com/album/autumn-whispers

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