Blue Genes (album)

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Blue Genes
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Studio album by
The Three Sounds
Released1963
RecordedOctober 12, 13, 14 & 15, 1962
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length29:16
Label Verve
V/V6 8513
Producer Creed Taylor
The Three Sounds chronology
Standards
(1959/62)		Blue Genes
(1963)		 Anita O'Day & the Three Sounds
(1963)

Blue Genes is an album by The Three Sounds recorded for the Verve label in late 1962. [1] [2] [3]

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Track listing

  1. "Mr. Wonderful" (Jerry Bock, George David Weiss, Larry Holofcener) − 5:28
  2. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) − 5:54
  3. "Love Somebody" (William E. Curry) − 4:08
  4. "Blue Genes" (Gene Harris) − 3:46
  5. "Red Sails in the Sunset" (Hugh Williams, Jimmy Kennedy) − 3:37
  6. "In a Mellow Tone" (Duke Ellington) − 4:55
  7. "Gina, My Love" (Harris) − 3:00
  8. "Whims of Chamberland" (Paul Chambers) − 3:53

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Verve Records Catalog accessed January 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Discography Preview for the Verve label accessed January 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia del Jazz: Gene Harris discography accessed January 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Blue Genes – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ Watson, Jimmy (13 July 1963). "The Three Sounds: Blue Genes" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 122. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
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