Pays tribute to the keyboard maestro Steve Nieve, with picks from his own
compositions and some of the melodies he has entertained us with over the
years.
1.
Prologue Of The Drunkman (AKA Prologue Of Dionysos) - Sting
2.
Song Of The Ghost Of Carmen - Sting
3.
Grand Grand Freedom - Robert Wyatt
4.
Unfailing Welcome To The Voice - Sting
5.
To Be Is Strong - Sting
6.
Unlikely (AKA The Unlikely Duet) - Sting
7.
Happiness - Robert Wyatt , Sting
8.
Swim To Me - Jazz Passengers
9.
Think Of Me - Jazz Passengers
15. *
Top Cat Theme - TV Theme
RUNNING
TIME 79:24
* Different version to compilation
Track Notes
1-6 Taken From Steve Nieve’s opera “Welcome to The
Voice” Elvis sung these tracks in a 2000 concert performance of the album in New York.
7 Also from “Welcome to The
Voice”. Elvis performed this with The Dallas Symphony in 2010.
8-9 Two songs Elvis
has performed with The Jazz Passengers in the mid nineties.
10 The Elvis track
“Button My Lip” contains “interpolated elements” of this track reportedly.
11,13,14,19 Steve has performed many snippets
of songs down the years, many still not identified by me. On New Year’s Eve
1981 in New
York he
performed a 13 minute solo improvisation containing many show tunes. Here are
just a few of those.
12 Sung by Mary Wiegold at Meltdown 1995.
15 Incidental music in some 1987 solo shows.
16 Traditional birthday song, performed on
numerous occasions.
17 Elvis performed this track on a 2003 episode
of Frasier.
18 Elvis joked on the similarity of the melody
to “Poor Fractured Atlas”.
20 Has featured 4 times as a snippet in “I
Don’t Wanna Go To Chelsea” All in Australia, appropriately enough!
21 Elvis played a snippet of this (aka “The Red Flag”) at a Rome show on 1st May 1995.
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