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Shoot The Piano Player

by Hershal

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1.
Moon Dance / How High the Moon/Bye Bye Blackbird 07:40
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2.
Stormy Weather/Why do Fools Fall in Love 07:01
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3.
C'est Magnifique/La Vie En Rose/All I Need is the Girl 10:47
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Send in the Clowns/Somebody Loves Me/You Made Me Love You 08:25
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Latin Medley: La Curaracha/Tres Lindas Cubanas 06:01
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6.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy 05:06
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7.
Lady Be Good/Smile/Pennies From Heaven 08:37
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8.
My Blue Heaven/Rock Around the Clock 07:52
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The Jews Brothers Band’s band-leader Hershal Herscher moonlights as a stomping piano player!There has never ever been an album quite like this!
The perfect accompaniment to any bachelor pad, it combines mayhem, murder and masterful piano-playing.
From "Moondance" to "Rock Around the Clock", Gershwin to Porter, Hershal romps through some old favourites with a pulse that'll knock your socks off!
In the tradition of those great 1930s "stride" piano players, whose antics at the piano were never recorded live, Fats Waller, Willy "The Lion" Smith and James P. Johnson, Hershal is totally eccentric in his playing and his ad-lib comments, inspiring his audience to clap, sing, laugh and call out as he rocks the piano with wild chords and feel-good rhythms. Knocking off one tune after another in rapid-fire succession, he's not just a killer piano player, he's your serial killer piano player and you'll either love this album or hate it!
It's also the only album in the world with a bullet hole right through the entire package!
Fire up your party, if not your imagination, courtesy of Hershal.
And, if your mood happens to change somewhere along the way, you can always Shoot The Piano Player!
"A masterpiece" Bruce Morley, New Zealand Musician

"Excruciatingly awful" Graham Reid, New Zealand Herald
"brazen
eccentricity ... Think of a mutant hybrid ­ part Erroll Garner, part
Liberace and part rhinoceros, rent a bazooka and do exactly as the
title suggests." Ilmar Taimre, Real Groove

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released January 1, 1994

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The Jews Brothers Band Auckland, New Zealand

Twenty years ago, inspired by a klezmer tune playing on an Auckland café’s stereo, Hershal Herscher picked up his accordion and started playing the music his grandfather Harry had brought to New York from the Ukraine.

The rhythm he was pumping out acted like a magnet on three musician friends who were in the caf that day. From that nucleus The Jews Brothers Band was born. ... more

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