Jazz guitar autodidact and 1956 Downbeat Critics Poll winner Dick Garcia struts his stuff while the likes of Bill Evans, Gene Quill, and John Drew try to keep up! The combination of Bird, Christian and his own personality meld here in Dick’s own swinging style, delivering repertoire so diverse it required three different backing bands! Message From Garcia presents Dick in various contexts so as to give the listener an idea of his scope - the material is diversified in order to give Garcia and the other instrumentalists a chance to speak of varied moods. The first group is a quartet typified by a quietly pulsating, yet exploratory quality on “Have You Met Miss Jones,” “I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire,” and “Potatoes.” The second unit finds its identification in the ensemble sound of the guitar and piano on “Ev’ry Night About This Time,” “Like Someone In Love,” and “Kimona My House.” The last group tends toward a more basic jazz quartet persuasion on “The Deacon,” “Stompin’ At The Savoy,” “If I’m Lucky” and “It Could Happen To You.”
1. Have You Met Miss Jones 02:50
2. If I'm Lucky 03:57
3. Kimona My House 03:36
4. I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire 03:28
5. The Deacon 03:07
6. Stompin' At the Savoy 02:13
7. Like Someone In Love 05:20
8. Potatoes 03:17
9. It Could Happen To You 05:19
10. Ev'ry Night About This Time 02:48
