Celebrating Sinatra

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Celebrating Sinatra
Celebrating Sinatra - album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released1996
RecordedJune 2 and 3, 1996
StudioClinton Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length1:08:58
Label Blue Note CDP 7243 8 37718 2 0
Producer Joe Lovano
Joe Lovano chronology
Ten Tales
(1994)
Celebrating Sinatra
(1996)
Tenor Time
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Tom Hull B+ [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]

Celebrating Sinatra is a 1996 studio album by American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano released by the Blue Note label. [5] [6] [7] Lovano leads a fifteen-piece ensemble to play famous Sinatra's songs.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
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 Wolf4:30
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 Sinatra7:19
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

Personnel

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