I Like to Riff

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Released 1978 I Like to Riff(1978) Hi Fly(1985) Release date 1978		Label Shadow Records Artist Rio Nido

Producer Rio Nido, Charlie Campbell, Doug Ackerman

Rio nido i like to riff

I Like to Riff was the first recording by the Minneapolis jazz vocal trio Rio Nido, released in 1978. The original LP was long out-of-print until re-released on CD in 2007 by the Japanese label, Bittersweet America.

Track listing

"Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) (From a Cab Calloway Cotton Club revue. Arrangement by Connie Boswell and The Boswell Sisters - 1932)
"The Trouble With Me is You" (Pinky Tomlin and Harold Tobias) (From a recording of the Nat King Cole Trio - 1941)
"In Walked Bud" (Thelonious Monk, lyrics by Jon Hendricks)
"Hannah in Savannah" (Grace Leroy Kahn) (From a recording of Al Jolson's last USO tour)
"Wacky Dust" (Oscar Levant and Stanley Adams) (Adapted from a recording of the Chick Webb Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald - 1938. Additional lyrics by Sparks, Lieberman, and Tim Gadban.)
"Gone" (Austin Powell) (Recorded by The Cats and the Fiddle - 1941) Horn arrangement by Tim Sparks
"I Like to Riff" (Nat King Cole)
"Shanghai Lil" (Harry Warren and Al Dubin)) (Introduced by James Cagney in the Busby Berkely film '"Footlight Parade" - 1933)
"Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" (Cole Porter) (From the 1938 Broadway musical "Leave it to Me")
"The Man With the Jive" (Stuff Smith) (From a recording by Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Orchestra - 1938.) Horn arrangement by Tim Sparks
"Crazy People" ("Ragtime" Jimmy Monaco and Edgar Leslie) (Arrangement by Connee Boswell and The Boswell Sisters, featured in "The Big Broadcast of 1932")