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