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The Inimitable Dave Frishberg

The Washington Post | August 22, 2001 | Copyright

If you're a fan of Dave Frishberg, it's hard not to harbor some kind thoughts about Diana Krall as well. Whatever you think of the best-selling jazz singer's vocal skills, you've got to give her points for having the good taste to introduce the Frishberg-written classic "Peel Me a Grape" -- and, one hopes, its idiosyncratic creator -- to a fresh generation of listeners. In a resolutely quiet fashion, Frishberg remains a national treasure.

To the extent that he is known, it's as the "funny" Frishberg, the clever composer who, since the early '70s, has offered up such tunes as "I'm…

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