I Like to Riff was the first recording by the Minneapolis jazz vocal trio Rio Nido, released in 1978. The original LP was long out-of-print until re-released on CD in 2007 by the Japanese label, Bittersweet America.
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Released | 1978 |
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Label | Shadow Records |
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Producer | Rio Nido, Charlie Campbell, Doug Ackerman |
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I Like to Riff (1978)
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Hi Fly (1985)
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- "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) (From a Cab Calloway Cotton Club revue. Arrangement by Connie Boswell and The Boswell Sisters - 1932)
- "The Trouble With Me is You" (Pinky Tomlin and Harold Tobias) (From a recording of the Nat King Cole Trio - 1941)
- "In Walked Bud" (Thelonious Monk, lyrics by Jon Hendricks)
- "Hannah in Savannah" (Grace Leroy Kahn) (From a recording of Al Jolson's last USO tour)
- "Wacky Dust" (Oscar Levant and Stanley Adams) (Adapted from a recording of the Chick Webb Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald - 1938. Additional lyrics by Sparks, Lieberman, and Tim Gadban.)
- "Gone" (Austin Powell) (Recorded by The Cats and the Fiddle - 1941) Horn arrangement by Tim Sparks
- "I Like to Riff" (Nat King Cole)
- "Shanghai Lil" (Harry Warren and Al Dubin)) (Introduced by James Cagney in the Busby Berkeley film '"Footlight Parade" - 1933)
- "Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" (Cole Porter) (From the 1938 Broadway musical "Leave it to Me")
- "The Man With the Jive" (Stuff Smith) (From a recording by Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Orchestra - 1938.) Horn arrangement by Tim Sparks
- "Crazy People" ("Ragtime" Jimmy Monaco and Edgar Leslie) (Arrangement by Connee Boswell and The Boswell Sisters, featured in "The Big Broadcast of 1932")
- Produced by Rio Nido
- Executive producer - Charlie Campbell
- Technical assistant - Tim Ackerman
- Engineered and mixed by Dave Ray, Chris Hinding and Michael McKern
- Artwork by John Hanson
- Photography by Matt Spector and Dennis Widstrand