Dark Beauty

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Dark Beauty
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Studio album by
Released1974
RecordedMay 21–22, 1974
Copenhagen
Genre Jazz
Length66:06
Label SteepleChase
SCS-1016
Producer Nils Winther
Kenny Drew Trio chronology
Duo 2
(1974)
Dark Beauty
(1974)
If You Could See Me Now
(1974)
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Dark Beauty is an album by American pianist Kenny Drew recorded in 1974 and released on SteepleChase. [3] [4]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Run Away" (Carstens) – 6:18
  2. "Dark Beauty" (Drew) – 5:37
  3. "Summernight" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) – 4:10
  4. "All Blues" (Miles Davis) – 6:28
  5. "A Felicidade" (Luiz Bonfá, Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 6:00
  6. "It Could Happen to You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 6:59
  7. "Love Letters" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 5:15
  8. "Silk Bossa" (Clausen) – 5:06
  9. "Blues Inn" (Drew) – 4:54
  10. "In Your Own Sweet Way" (Dave Brubeck) – 7:15
  11. "Stranger in Paradise" – 8:04

Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 11 recorded on May 21, 1974; the rest recorded on May 22.

Personnel

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References

  1. Dark Beauty at AllMusic
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 65. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. Kenny Drew discography accessed May 17, 2015
  4. SteepleChase Records discography, accessed May 17, 2015