A true renaissance man, in addition to playing many instruments, Jim Brunberg is also an activist and venue owner who pens three originals and interprets seven others with the help of Pete Thomas and the chamber music collective 45th Parallel. <\/p>\n
The delicate \u201cIn The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning\u201d opens with Brunberg playing guitar, melodica, bass, celesta and violin in the gorgeous, sophisticated David Mann and Bob Hilliard original. \u201cNature Boy\u201d arrives next and takes help from Lisa Lipton on clarinet and Dana Sparling on flute and piccolo amid the strong attention to mood.<\/p>\n
Deeper into Side A, Brunberg\u2019s warm banjo, guitar and trumpet are complemented by Pete Thomas’ drums across the graceful \u201cA Cottage For Sale,\u201d while \u201cThat Lucky Old Sun (Rolls Around Heaven All Day)\u201d is just Brunberg\u2019s cozy piano and soft voice for the intimate delivery of the 1949 tune by Beasley Smith and Haven Gillespie. <\/p>\n
\u201cCrazy,\u201d probably the most recognizable song on the record, arrives early in the back half. Clarinet is held down by Lipton and Ben Landsverk contributes bass to the rich Willie Nelson classic that has some really diverse singing from Brunberg\u2019s pipes. <\/p>\n
The originals are well done, too, where \u201cArgument\u201d welcomes Kevin Kunkel\u2019s gorgeous cello to the dreamy climate, and \u201cNew Year’s Song,\u201d the best tune here, is a richly textured moment that embraces guitar, clarinet, flute and cello for an atypical, chamber-fueled New Year anthem.<\/p>\n
Some of these songs are nearly 100 years old, but they still sound great now, and nods to Randy Newman, Joni Mitchell and Paul McCartney are present and accounted for. Brunberg\u2019s lengthy resume includes film scoring, award winning podcasts and this excellent solo album that\u2019s full of authenticity and maturity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":35182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[11037],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-47063","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jim-brunberg","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/47063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47063"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=47063"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=47063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}