Cohn on the Saxophone

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Cohn on the Saxophone
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Studio album by
Al Cohn
ReleasedFebruary 1957
RecordedSeptember 29, 1956
Webster Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length44:44
Label Dawn
DLP 1110
Producer Chuck Darwin
Al Cohn chronology
The Sax Section
(1956)		Cohn on the Saxophone
(1957)		 The Al Cohn Quintet Featuring Bobby Brookmeyer
(1956)

Cohn on the Saxophone is an album by saxophonist Al Cohn recorded in 1956 for the Dawn label. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Al Cohn except as indicated

  1. "We Three" (Nelson Cogane, Sammy Mysels, Dick Robertson) - 3:48
  2. "Idaho" (Jesse Stone) - 3:37
  3. "The Things I Love" (Harold Barlow, Lew Harris) - 3:52
  4. "Singing The Blues" (J. Russel Robinson, Con Conrad, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) - 5:06
  5. "Be Loose" - 4:18
  6. "When Day Is Done" (Buddy DeSylva, Robert Katscher  [ de ]) - 3:54
  7. "Good Old Blues" - 4:49
  8. "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 3:18
  9. "Abstract of You" - 3:44
  10. "Blue Lou" (Irving Mills, Edgar Sampson) - 4:09
  11. "Them There Eyes" (Maceo Pinkard, Doris Tauber, William Tracey) - 4:09 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Dawn Album Discography, accessed November 30, 2015
  2. ↑ Dawn Records listing, accessed November 30, 2015
  3. ↑ Cohn on the Saxophone at AllMusic . Retrieved November 30, 2015.
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