{"product_id":"donau-so-blue","title":"DONAU SO BLUE","description":"Austrian pianist-composer Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000) was celebrated as brilliant and criticized as an enfant terrible. + On the album’s title piece, “Donau So Blue” two seasoned jazz musicians, bassist Hans Rettenbacher and drummer Manfred Josel accompany Gulda. + His scurrilous texts – also featured on this somewhat bizarre spoken word MPS production – are reminiscent of the works of Viennese actor-cabarettist Helmut Qualtinger and Austrian-American cabarettist- composer Georg Kreisler. + And who was the singer Albert Golowin? + He was actually a pseudonym Gulda used for singing performances. + Gulda felt himself to be an outsider in the jazz world. + He was a renowned Mozart and Beethoven interpreter, but did not want to be tied down to the world of classical music. + His antipathy towards the concert establishment drove the piano virtuoso into the jazz scene. + He played with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, and Rolf Kühn.","brand":"Berlin Classics","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49605241536792,"sku":"4029759097327","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4335357-3178540.jpg?v=1777608668","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/donau-so-blue","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}