Description: Here are 2 releases involving Milwaukee legend Ralph/Raphael Chicorel, 3 LPs in all! All originals, very scarce. "I'm In Love With You" is the debut of talented singer Sandra Mandella. The album features the Ray Tabbs Trio. ----- HEAR songs uploaded from this copy: * 1972 MKE WI SOUL JAZZ FUNK INSTRO Raphael Chicorel "The Bird" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ3q7EZjr_M * 1972 MKE WI FUNK JAZZ Raphael Chicorel "All That Love Making" w/ Sandra Mandella - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY-6dqXJ5eo * 1972 MKE WI VOCAL JAZZ Raphael Chicorel "Walking With Jocko" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxx5EEbGJc4 The Ray Tabs Trio Introducing Sandra Mandella The Songs And Music Of Raphael Chicorel – I'm In Love With You Label:Pleasure – plea-102-1-2, Pleasure – 102-1-2 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album Country:US Released:1972 A1I'm In Love With You4:40 A2You Are So There2:41 A3You're My Christmas3:46 B1The Horses Visited Last Night5:14 B2You Will Know Of Love5:34 B3All That Love Making2:30 C1At Least We Had This4:40 C2When Love Was New3:24 C3Dear Dorine4:17 C4Simultaneously3:08 D1Walking With Jocko2:41 D2I'm Glad It Was You2:50 D3You're My Reason4:25 D4The Bird2:37 -- "A Gift Of Music" has 19 songs (check out details in Photos). Album is SIGNED. ----- Ralph / Raphael Chicorel is best-known for his Pleasure Records (Milwaukee) label, as well as The Ray Tabs Trio and the excellent Lewis Explosion project. This copy is signed by Ralph, and is separated between Ralph's side and Joe Clonick's side, all originals. Joe, The Chicago native, majored in composition at Oberlin, studying with Professor of Music Composition and Theory Joseph Wood. But Clonick ultimately focused his career as a pianist on what he calls his "true love" in music, a genre for which there are not many outlets: "I carved out my tiny niche in classical improvisation." And although classical improvisation is foremost among his interests, he has been known to cross over. In Chicago, Clonick spent five years in the early 1960s as musical director and pianist at the Happy Medium, a cabaret theater. His next gig was as house pianist for the famed London House—"the finest jazz room at the time." Clonick took the stage when the featured acts (André Previn, for example) took their breaks. He calls Previn his "hero" for his success transcending all musical genres. Clonick left Chicago in 1969 for New York City, and an entirely new musical adventure. After auditioning to win a coveted spot in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, sort of an Actors’ Studio for composers, Clonick became a fixture there and an Engel protégé—the director was considered one of the preeminent Broadway conductors in the 1940s and 1950s. Fellow students included Ed Kleban, the future lyricist for A Chorus Line, and Melanie Chartoff, who became an important collaborator. It was a nurturing and productive time, and Clonick wrote many shows, among them Scrooge: A Christmas Ghost Story, with lyricist Nancy Leeds. Clonick met one of his greatest friends and writing partners, Ralph Chicorel, when the latter poked around the edges of the workshop. While living in New York, Clonick found time to pursue a different kind of composing; he created crossword puzzles for the New York Times. An avid puzzle aficionado, he was a regular at the American Crosswords Puzzle Tournaments, and once finished third. It’s not a great leap from crosswords to trivia, and in 1994 Clonick parlayed his considerable talents into a four-program stint on the quiz show Jeopardy.
Price: 22.5 USD
Location: Peshtigo, Wisconsin
End Time: 2024-12-20T14:10:34.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.13 USD
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Artist: JOE CLONICK, Raphael Chicorel, Ray Tabbs Trio, Sandra Mandella
Speed: 33 RPM
Record Label: PLEASURE
Release Title: the songs of ralph chicorel and joe clonick
Case Type: Cardboard Sleeve
Color: Black
Material: Vinyl
Inlay Condition: Excellent (EX)
Edition: First Edition
Type: LP
Record Grading: Excellent (EX)
Format: Record
Sleeve Grading: Very Good (VG)
Language: English
Record Size: 12"
Features: Gatefold, Signed
Genre: Easy Listening, Jazz
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States