NEW VINYL LP ON FIRE RECORDS 2016 180 GRAM VINYL These are Future Standards by The Howe Gelb Piano Trio, taking an outsider view of early gospel and rhythm and blues both part of the American musical socialization that he touched on with 2006's Sno Angel. Now he's on a jazz-tinged trip, bending the genre, taking it back to his shack. On Future Standards, Gelb duets with the equally laconic Lonna Kelley as the pair come on like a seasoned duo managed by Broadway Danny Rose in Woody Allen's film of the same name. Gelb's piano sinks to a pedal-depressed ambience as his cavalier vocal boasts of new love and faded times, all In the best tradition of the American Songbook that he's pretty damn cleverly adding a new volume to. Tracklist Terribly SoIrresponsible LoversA Book You've Read BeforeRelevantOwnin' ItClearImpossible ThingThe Shiver RevisitedMad Man At LargeMay You Never Fall In LoveSweet ConfusionMad Man At Home
