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This Danish virtuoso could have been a classical pianist, but after moving to the U.S. he developed an infectious fusion of music and comedy that made him a star on both sides of the Atlantic. What you’ll find on these 2 CDs are his early Columbia singles (which later came out on albums) plus his complete 1954 live albums "Comedy in Music Vols. 1 & 2" and his 1955 live LP "Caught in the Act." Straight-ahead music performances join comedy routines, inspired improvisations and those delicious parodies of his: "Phonetic Punctuation," "A Lesson in Composition," "Grieg Rhapsody," "Brahms Lullaby," "Unstarted Symphony," "Inflation Language," "Clair De Lune," "A Mozart Opera by Borge," "Family Background," "Stardust" and more! Acrobat.