I Like to Riff

Infobox Album |
Name = I Like to Riff
Type = Album
Artist = Rio Nido


Released = 1978
Recorded =
Length =
Label = Shadow Records
Producer = Rio Nido, Charlie Campbell, Doug Ackerman
Reviews =

Last album =
This album = "I Like to Riff"
(1978)
Next album = "Hi Fly"
(1985)

"I Like to Riff" was the first recording by the Minneapolis jazz vocal trio Rio Nido. The original LP was long out-of-print until re-released on CD in 2007 by the Japanese label, Bittersweet America.

Track listing

# "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) (From a Cab Calloway Cotton Club revue. Arrangement by Connie Boswell and The Boswell Sisters - 1932)
# "The Trouble With Me is You" (Pinky Tomlin and Harold Tobias) (From a recording of the Nat King Cole Trio - 1941)
# "In Walked Bud" (Thelonius Monk, lyrics by Jon Hendricks)
# "Hannah in Savannah" (Grace Leroy Kahn) (From a recording of Al Jolson's last USO tour)
# "Wacky Dust" (Oscar Levant and Stanley Adams) (Adapted from a recording of the Chick Webb Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald - 1938. Additional lyrics by Sparks, Lieberman, and Tim Gadban.)
# "Gone" (Austin Powell) (Recorded by The Cats and the Fiddle - 1941) Horn arrangement by Tim Sparks
# "I Like to Riff" (Nat King Cole)
# "Shanghai Lil" (Harry Warren and Al Dubin)) (Introduced by James Cagney in the Busby Berkely film '"Footlight Parade" - 1933)
# "Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" (Cole Porter) (From the 1938 Broadway musical "Leave it to Me")
# "The Man With the Jive" (Stuff Smith) (From a recording by Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Orchestra - 1938.) Horn arrangement by Tim Sparks
# "Crazy People" ("Ragtime" Jimmy Monaco and Edgar Leslie) (Arrangement by Connee Boswell and The Boswell Sisters, featured in "The Big Broadcast of 1932")

Personnel

*Prudence Johnson - vocals
*Tim Sparks - vocals, guitar
*Tom Lieberman - vocals, guitar
*Eddie Berger - alto sax, baritone sax, soprano sax, clarinet
*Butch Thompson - clarinet
*Jim Price - fiddle
*Hearn Gadbois - conga
*Willie Murphy - bass
*Gary Raynor - bass
*Steve Benson - bass sax
*Peter Ostroushko - mandolin

Production notes

*Produced by Rio Nido
*Executive producer - Charlie Campbell
*Technical assistant - Tim Ackerman
*Engineered and mixed by Dave Ray, Chris Hinding and Michael McKern
*Artwork by John Hanson
*Photography by Matt Spector and Dennis Widstrand

External links

* [http://www.timsparks.com/recordings/riff.html Tim Sparks website]
* [http://www.prudencejohnson.com/recordings-riff.asp Prudence Johnson website]