Tone Poems 2
Studio album by David Grisman, Martin Taylor
Released	October 31, 1995 (1995-10-31)
Recorded	January 1995
Studio	Dawg Studios
Genre	Jazz
Length	64:24
Label	Acoustic Disc
Producer	David Grisman
David Grisman, Martin Taylor chronology
Tone Poems 2 (1995) I'm Beginning to See the Light (1999)
David Grisman chronology
Songs of Our Fathers (1995) Tone Poems 2 (1995) DGQ-20 (1996)

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Tone Poems 2 is an album by American mandolinist David Grisman and British guitarist Martin Taylor that was released in 1995 by Grisman's label, Acoustic Music. It is a sequel to Tone Poems, his collaboration with bluegrass guitarist Tony Rice. This is a jazz-oriented recording on which Grisman and Taylor play a variety of vintage, fretted, acoustic instruments. They use 41 guitars, mandolins, mandolas, mandocellos, and tenor guitars. ^[1]

Track listing

1. " Swanee" ( George Gershwin, Irving Caesar) – 4:22
2. "Teasin' the Frets" ( Nick Lucas) – 1:53
3. " It Had to Be You" ( Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) – 3:15
4. "Please" ( Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:14
5. " Mood Indigo" ( Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills) – 3:09
6. " Anything Goes" ( Cole Porter) – 2:06
7. " Blue Moon" ( Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:24
8. " Lulu's Back In Town" ( Harry Warren, Al Dubin) – 2:59
9. "Tears" ( Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt) – 3:10
10. " Jeepers Creepers" (Warren, Johnny Mercer) – 2:57
11. " Over the Rainbow" ( Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg) – 4:18
12. "Musette for a Magpie" ( Martin Taylor) – 3:16
13. " Mairzy Doats" ( Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston) – 2:16
14. " Bésame Mucho" ( Consuelo Velázquez, Sunny Skylar) – 4:41
15. " Unforgettable" ( Irving Gordon) – 3:07
16. " Here's That Rainy Day" ( Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 3:26
17. " My Romance" (Rodgers, Hart) – 4:02
18. " Out of Nowhere" ( Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:44
19. "Crystal Silence" ( Chick Corea, Neville Potter) – 3:38

Personnel

• David Grisman – mandolin, mandola, mandocello, guitar, tenor guitar
• Martin Taylor – guitar

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