Celebrating Sinatra | ||||
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Released | 1996 | |||
Recorded | June 2 and 3, 1996 | |||
Studio | Clinton Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 1:08:58 | |||
Label | Blue Note CDP 7243 8 37718 2 0 | |||
Producer | Joe Lovano | |||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Tom Hull | B+ [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [4] |
Uncut | [5] |
Celebrating Sinatra is a 1996 studio album by American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano released by the Blue Note label. [6] [7] [8] Lovano leads a fifteen-piece ensemble playing some of Sinatra's most famous songs.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "I'll Never Smile Again" | Ruth Lowe | 5:11 |
2. | "Chicago" | Fred Fisher | 3:58 |
3. | "I'm a Fool to Want You" | Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf | 4:30 |
4. | "Imagination" | Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen | 6:55 |
5. | "I've Got the World on a String" | Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler | 4:18 |
6. | "All the Way" | Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen | 5:32 |
7. | "South of the Border" | Michael Carr, Jimmy Kennedy | 5:18 |
8. | "In Other Words" | Bart Howard | 3:53 |
9. | "I've Got You Under My Skin" | Cole Porter | 4:18 |
10. | "This Love of Mine" | Hank Sanicola, Sol Parker, Frank Sinatra | 7:19 |
11. | "Someone to Watch over Me" | George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin | 5:00 |
12. | "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" | Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer | 4:00 |
13. | "The Song Is You" | Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern | 8:46 |
Total length: | 01:08:58 |
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