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Artist: Joe Castro Title: Mood Jazz Label:   Atlantic Country: USA Catalogue: 1264 Date: Jul 1957 Format: LP Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Joe Castro	J. C. Blues	Joe Castro	Rate
A2	Joe Castro	Without You		Rate
A3	Joe Castro	Doodlin'	Horace Silver	Rate
A4	Joe Castro	Everything I Love	Cole Porter	Rate
B1	Joe Castro	You Stepped Out Of A Dream	Gus Kahn, Nacio Herb Brown	Rate
B2	Joe Castro	If You Could See Me Now	Carl Sigman, Todd Dameron	Rate
B3	Joe Castro	It's You Or No One	Sammy Cahn, Jules Styne	Rate
B4	Joe Castro	Angel Eyes	Matt Dennis, Earl Brent	Rate
B5	Joe Castro	Caravan	Irving Mills, Edward "Duke" Ellington, Juan Tizol	Rate

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Joe Castro was a jazz pianist who specialized in jazz tunes that had a fast tempo, rapid chord changes and many changes from one tonality to another, and improvvisation, which means that an artist invents melodies and lines over a progression of chords that are played by rhythm section instruments and accompanied by drums.

Though Mr. Castro was reared near the Pacific Coast, he had established his first jazz trio while he lived in Hawaii. When Mr. Castro had relocated to New York City, his trio had performed in the top city jazz clubs, such as Basin Street, the Embers, the Hickory House and Birdland. Accordingly the trio were greatly praised by Leonard Feather and Dave Brubeck that they got a recording contract at Atlantic Records where this first Castro LP was made.

The tunes of this Atlantic disc was designed for casual listening so that distressed individuals could ease their tension thru the slow tempo. Additionally, three ensembles, such as a large orchestra with strings and vocals, another string orchestra with no voices and a vocal jazz combo in which Mr. Castro is accompanied by trumpet, alto, and rhythm section, were utilized to make this LP.

Though this disc did not sell well, Mr. Castro had relocated to Los Angeles to be associated mainly with the Teddy Edwards trio from whom Mr. Castro learned that he could comfortably play without having to deal with the distress that occurs when his band had toured various regions of the United States.

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