Did I ever mention I love Johnny Costa? He was the Pittsburgh jazz pianist best known for his role as music director of the children’s TV show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. He died in 1996 and there’s a web site in his honor now.
For much of his career, he didn’t make recordings: a few LPs in the ’50s that are unavailable now, and then in the ’90s, four CDs for Chiaroscuro Records. Now it turns out that he recorded one more album in ’95, with Christmas and religious music, so I’ll definitely be getting it. Will it be Catholic jazz?
Here’s an audio sample: Tea for Two (5 MB download).
The file’s in the “Ogg Vorbis” format popular in the Linux world; if you’re on Windows, you may need the audio player Winamp to handle it.