Big City Rhythms

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Big City Rhythms
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 9, 1999
RecordedAugust 2–4, 1999
Genre Vocal jazz
Length64:37
Label Concord
Producer John Burk, Allen Sviridoff
Michael Feinstein chronology
Michael & George: Feinstein Sings Gershwin
(1998)
Big City Rhythms
(1999)
Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway
(2000)
Maynard Ferguson chronology
Brass Attudes
(1998)
Big City Rhythms
(1999)

Big City Rhythms is a 1999 album by American vocalist Michael Feinstein accompanied by the Maynard Ferguson big band. It was Feinstein's second album for the Concord label, and his first with Maynard Ferguson.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Jonathan Widran awarded the album 4 stars and said the pairing of Feinstein and Ferguson "such a rousing success that it's surprising the two didn't think of it before". [1]

Track listing

  1. "Close Your Eyes" (Bernice Petkere) - 2:57
  2. "The Very Thought of You" (Ray Noble) - 5:29
  3. "Let Me Off Uptown" (Earl Bostic, Redd Evans) - 3:34
  4. "Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) - 5:07
  5. "You Can't Lose 'Em All" (Marshall Barer, David Ross) - 4:33
  6. "One Day at a Time" (Charles DeForest) - 3:54
  7. "The Rhythm of the Blues" (Michael Feinstein, Lindy Robbins) - 5:52
  8. "The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)" (Isham Jones, Gus Kahn) - 5:25
  9. "Ev'rything You Want Is Here" (Murray Grand) - 4:29
  10. "Johnny One Note" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 2:27
  11. "Swing Is Back in Style" (Feinstein, Ray Jessel, Cynthia Thompson) - 2:38
  12. "Love Is Nothin' But a Racket" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, André Previn) - 3:27
  13. "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Benny Goodman, Walter Hirsch, Clarence Profit, Edgar Sampson) - 3:25
  14. Medley: "When Your Lover Has Gone"/"The Gal That Got Away" (Einar Aaron Swan)/(Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) - 4:59
  15. "New York, New York" (Leonard Bernstein, Comden, Green, John Kander) - 3:38
  16. "How Little We Know" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) - 2:43

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 "Big City Rhythms". Allmusic . Retrieved March 7, 2011.