The Great Gildo

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Released 1965 Release date 1965 Label Prestige Records		Artist Gildo Mahones Producer Ozzie Cadena Genre Jazz

Recorded February 4, 1963, August 15, 1963, September 3, 1963 and June 4, 1964Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs The Great Gildo(1963-64) Gildo Mahones Trio(1990) Similar I'm Shooting High, Love Shout, Les Jazz Modes

The Great Guildo (subtitled Soulful Piano) is a double album by jazz pianist Gildo Mahones recorded for the Prestige label in 1963 and 1964 and released in 1965. The album included five tracks intended for the pianists debut album that were shelved temporarily when the Prestige subsidiary label New Jazz ceased releases.

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars stating simply "Two-fer. Excellent jazz. A must-buy".

Track listing

All compositions by Gildo Mahones except as indicated

"Blues for Yna Yna"- 5:00
"Blue" - 5:15
"I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 5:50
"I Wish You Love" (Léo Chauliac, Charles Trenet) - 5:30
"I Wonder What's Become of Our Love" - 5:30
"Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 6:45
"Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) - 5:40
"Something Missing" - 3:30
"The Sweetest Sounds" (Richard Rodgers) - 4:45
"Rainy Day Love" - 4:20
"Mambesi"- 3:55
"Water Blues Fall" - 6:45
"Oye Ami Piano" - 4:00
"Good Morning Heartache" (Irene Higginbotham, Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher) - 5:45
"Bali Ha'i" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 4:20
"Tales of Brooklyn" - 3:55

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on February 4, 1963 (track 15), August 15, 1963 (track 16), September 3, 1963 (tracks 9, 12 & 14) and June 4, 1964 (tracks 1-8, 10, 11 & 13)