Little Dancer: Songs of Love, Hope & Comfort

Angelo Verploegen, Jeroen van Vliet

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Little Dancer featuring Angelo Verploegen and Jeroen van Vliet from Just Listen is an Exclusive Early Release in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound at NativeDSD!


“My grandson. His birth, in early 2023, had an overwhelming emotional impact on me. I experienced an unspeakable feeling of sheer joy and happiness, but there was also an almost unavoidable underlying sense of worry. What challenges await him and his generation? I had no choice but to start looking for songs of love, hope, comfort, life, and childhood, and perform them in the most intimate and vulnerable setting.

How lucky I was to run into pianist Jeroen van Vliet again. We had played as a duo before (at the closing weekend of the old Bimhuis in 2005), and he was part of my semi-acoustic quartet, Executive Lounge. His strong sense of form, sensibility, creativity, and musical intuition would make a perfect match for my intentions for this album.”

– Angelo Verploegen


Angelo Verploegen, Flugelhorn
Jeroen van Vliet, Piano

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
Always
04:10
2.
Nature Boy
04:08
3.
Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day
05:20
4.
Infant Eyes
05:47
5.
Little Dancer
05:07
6.
Smile
03:49
7.
Over The Rainbow
02:51
8.
Here's To Life
05:30
9.
The Five Pennies
04:04
10.
Little Niles
04:20
11.
Praise
03:54

Total time: 00:49:00

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JL033

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A/D Convertor

DSD256 Horus, Merging Technologies

Amplifiers

Van Medevoort, Holland

Editing Software

Pyramix, Merging Technologies

HRP Mastering Engineer

Tom Caulfield

Label Management

Jara Holdert

Mastering Speakers

Grimm LS1

Microphones

Bruel & Kjær 4006, Schoeps

Mixig Board

Rens Heijnis, custom design

Instruments

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Original Recording Format

Producers

Jared Sacks, Jonas Sacks, Angelo Verploegen

Recording, Editing, Mixing & Mastering Engineer

Jared Sacks

Recording Location

MCO Studio 1, Hilversum, Netherlands

Release DateJanuary 12, 2024

Press reviews

Positive Feedback

Where the tunes on “A Handful of Stories” were written by Verploegen (all but one), the songs on “Little Dancer” are a collection of standards from various other composers including Irving Berlin (“Always”), Harold Arlen (“Over the Rainbow”), Wayne Shorter (“Infant Eyes” from his 1966 album Speak No Evil), Eben Ahbez’s “Nature Boy” made famous by Nat King Cole, Mabel Wayne’s “Little Boy, You’ve Had a Hard Day” which we know from recordings by Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Sarah Vaughan with Count Basie, and Eric Clapton.

The album is an indulgent journey through emotions of love, life and joy. As Vergplogen writes, they are performed in the most intimate and vulnerable setting one might imagine. And Angelo’s and Jeroen’s performances are thoroughly engaging, moving, and utterly delightful. As always, Verploegen’s playing is creative, innovative and subtle. There is nothing pedestrian about his interpretations; they are fresh natural extensions of his personality, and always come with a subtle twist, a playful fillip.

Recorded once again by Jared Sacks, the sound quality of this album is exceptional. Jared balances the sound of Verploegen’s horn and Van Vliet’s piano delicately and deliciously naturally. They are in the room with me as I listen. Just marvelous!

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