Bass Hit!

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Bass Hit!
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Studio album by
Ray Brown
Released1957
RecordedNovember 21, 23, 1956
Genre Jazz
Length32:18
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Ray Brown chronology
Bass Hit!
(1957)		 This Is Ray Brown
(1958)
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Bass Hit! is a 1956 album by Ray Brown, his first album as a leader. [2] It was produced by Norman Granz. [3] "Solo for Unaccompanied Bass" contains whispered singing from 1:18 to 1:25. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Bass Introduction" / "Blues for Sylvia" (Ray Brown / Brown, Marty Paich) – 5:04
  2. "All of You" (Cole Porter) – 4:00
  3. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Harold Adamson, Burton Lane) – 4:28
  4. "Will You Still Be Mine?" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 3:42
  5. "Little Toe" (Brown) – 4:52
  6. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 4:46
  7. "Solo for Unaccompanied Bass" (Brown) – 2:30
  8. "My Foolish Heart" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 4:09
  9. "Blues for Lorraine" / "Bass Conclusion" (Brown, Paich / Brown) – 5:36

Bonus tracks on CD reissue in 1999:

  2. "After You've Gone Medley" (False Start/Breakdown/False Start/Complete Take) (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 2:50
  3. "After You've Gone" (Complete Take) – 4:49
  4. "After You've Gone Medley" (False Start/Breakdown/Breakdown/Complete Take) – 3:01
  5. "After You've Gone" (Complete Take) – 2:44

Personnel

Performance

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic Review
  2. ↑ Bass Hit! at AllMusic
  3. 1 2 Beaudoin, Richard (2024). Sounds as They Are. Oxford University Press. p. 6. ISBN   978-0-19-765928-1.
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