MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      John Pizzarelli Drawing on Nat King Cole’s warm, personable jazz guitar playing and vocals and Frank Sinatra’s sharp-suited cool, John Pizzarelli has been offering his own brand of stylish swing for going on two decades -- though he’s only really established himself within the last several years. He got his start at the side of his father, guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, whose group backed up young John on a couple of early solo records, 1983’s I’m Hip -- Please Don’t Tell My Father, and 1985’s Hit That Jive Jack!. Pizzarelli experienced a kind of breakthrough with My Blue Heaven in 1990; backed by an all-star lineup that included Clark Terry on flugelhorn, the album concentrated more on standards that suited Pizzarelli’s smooth vocal style, although he still wasn’t playing much guitar. He continued in the same vein, more or less, for a series of discs on the Novus label -- some featuring a trio format that included his brother Martin on bass. Sometimes the new wrinkles he introduced won praise -- adding a wall of horns to “Naturally” that brought him closer to brassy big band swing -- and sometimes they elicited head-scratching, like the oddly-chosen set of New Standards he put out in 1994. But 1994’s second effort, Dear Mr. Cole, made Pizzarelli’s connection to Nat King Cole explicit, playing up his growing fretboard chops. After cutting a holiday album (1996’s Let’s Share Christmas) that also harked back to the King, and opening some shows for Sinatra (Ol’ Blue Eyes’ advice to the youngster: “Eat somethin’, kid. You look bad.”), Pizzarelli appeared in Dream, the Broadway tribute to lyricist Johnny Mercer. He then shifted gears with a disc of jazzified Fab Four covers, Meets the Beatles, but his label, RCA, balked at the effort, at first releasing it only in Japan. But its popularity there, and outcry from Pizzarelli’s American fans, won a domestic release for the disc in 1998. By now, Pizzarelli sounded completely at ease behind the mic or his hollow-bodied guitar, and he swung through a second homage to Cole, 1999’s P.S. Mr. Cole, in fine style. A new album, his first for the Telarc label, followed in 2000. Kisses in the Rain featured plenty of Pizzarelli’s smooth romanticism, as well as some of his originals, like the title track.     John Pizzarelli Kisses In The Rain LiquidAudio Jazz, Pop It’s worth braving the storm for this gentle jazz smooch from John Pizzarelli & Co. Let the sweet singing and six-stringing be your umbrella, baby!
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