Pure Liz Story bypasses piano great Story's late-career artistic wanderings in favor of doing exactly what the title promises: presenting her as an innovator who's most at home seated behind a piano bench alone.
Tracks from all her best-loved discs surface here; the first three are from her stunning 1983 debut, Solid Colors, but the rest skip back and forth across her decades-long discography.
Traditional songs -- Ellington's "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)," Weill's "Mack the Knife" -- rub shoulders with original signatures such as "Toy Soldiers" (from Part of Fortune) and "Captain April" (from 17 Seconds to Anywhere), but the most pleasant surprise is saved for last.
"Valse D'Amelie," from the film Amelie, is romance run through a well-worn keyboard.
It's presented here as a bonus track.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solid Colors | Liz Story | Play | 04:39 | 10 MB | 17 MB |
| 2 | Pacheco Pass | Liz Story | Play | 03:07 | 7 MB | 11 MB |
| 3 | Toy Soldiers | Liz Story | Play | 03:41 | 8 MB | 14 MB |
| 4 | Inside Out | Liz Story | Play | 03:50 | 8 MB | 14 MB |
| 5 | Frog Park | Liz Story | Play | 03:07 | 7 MB | 10 MB |
| 6 | Captain April | Liz Story | Play | 04:21 | 10 MB | 16 MB |
| 7 | Mack the Knife | Liz Story | Play | 04:56 | 11 MB | 16 MB |
| 8 | Deeper Reasons | Liz Story | Play | 06:02 | 13 MB | 24 MB |
| 9 | Reconciliation | Liz Story | Play | 04:23 | 10 MB | 14 MB |
| 10 | Escape of the Circus Ponies | Liz Story | Play | 06:06 | 13 MB | 24 MB |
| 11 | Ana | Liz Story | Play | 05:31 | 12 MB | 19 MB |
| 12 | Never Will I Know | Liz Story | Play | 05:47 | 13 MB | 20 MB |
| 13 | Valse d'Amelie | Liz Story | Play | 03:28 | 7 MB | 12 MB |
| 14 | Wedding Rain | Liz Story | Play | 05:42 | 13 MB | 21 MB |
| 15 | I Got It Bad (and that ain't good) | Liz Story | Play | 03:38 | 8 MB | 12 MB |
| 68 mins | 156 MB | |||||
| 68 mins | 251 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Will Ackerman | Producer |
| 2 | Rene Arsenault | Project Coordinator |
| 3 | Dawn Atkinson | Compilation Producer, Executive Producer, Producer |
| 4 | Steven Berkowitz | A&R |
| 5 | Lenny Castro | Percussion |
| 6 | Bob Conti | Percussion |
| 7 | Joel DiBartolo | Bass (Acoustic), Producer |
| 8 | Mark P. Duke | Producer |
| 9 | Howard Fritzson | Art Direction |
| 10 | Dick Grove | Producer |
| 11 | Ken Howard | Photography |
| 12 | Thomas MacCluskey | Producer |
| 13 | Randall Martin | Design |
| 14 | Steven Miller | Producer |
| 15 | Ari Rios | Mastering |
| 16 | Nathan Sedlander | Project Manager |
| 17 | Liz Story | Drums, Main Personnel, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer |
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| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |