Penguin Café Orchestra – Live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 1984-12-08

Simon Jeffes (19 Februari 1949 – 11 December 1997) was de muzikale leider, gitarist en dirigent van het engelse ensemble Penguin Café Orchestra.

Hun muzikale output was erg groot:

Studio Albums
Music from the Penguin Cafe (1976) OBSCURE 7, later EEGCD 27
Penguin Cafe Orchestra (1981) EEGCD 11
Broadcasting from Home (1984) EEGCD 38
Signs of Life (1987) EEGCD 50
Union Cafe (1993) ZOPFD 001

Extended Play
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra Mini Album (1983) EGMLP 2

Live Albums
When In Rome… (1988) EEGCD 56
Concert Program (1995) ZOPFD 002

Collections
Preludes, Airs & Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer) (1996)
A Brief History (2001) CDV 2954
History (2001) Virgin Records LCO 3098
The Second Penguin Cafe Orchestra Sampler (2004)

Simon Jeffes albums
‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Cafe (1990) DECCA 425 218-2
Piano Music (2000) ZOPFD 003 — Solo stukken na  Jeffes’ dood.

Nummers op soundtracks

Night Shift (1982)
Malcolm (1986)
Oskar und Leni (1999)
Slim Susie (2003)
The Good Girl (2002)
Napoleon Dynamite Official Soundtrack (2005)
It’s All Gone Pete Tong Official soundtrack (2005)
Hewlett Packard – Advert (2006)
3 lbs – “Lost For Words” (2006)
Year of the Dog (2007)
All the Little Animals Music written by Simon Jeffes, performed and recorded by PCO members Geoffrey Richardson, Jennifer Maidman and Steve Fletcher
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Mary and Max (2009)

Op de downloadlink onderaan kun je een concert downloaden wat zij gaven op 8 December 1984 (hun eerste concert in de USA)

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