Dear Mr. Sinatra

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Dear Mr. Sinatra
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ReleasedJuly 18, 2006 (2006-07-18)
RecordedJune 29–30, 2005 (2005-06-29 2005-06-30)
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Label Telarc Records
John Pizzarelli chronology
Just Friends
(2006)
Dear Mr. Sinatra
(2006)
With a Song in My Heart
(2008)
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Dear Mr. Sinatra is a 2006 album by jazz singer and swing jazz guitarist John Pizzarelli. Pizzarelli is backed by the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, led by Jeff Hamilton and John Clayton.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ring-A-Ding Ding" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:37
  2. "You Make Me Feel So Young" (Mack Gordon, Josef Myrow) – 4:00
  3. "How About You?" (Ralph Freed, Burton Lane) – 2:43
  4. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Ted Shapiro) – 4:50
  5. "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 4:14
  6. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter) – 3:26
  7. "Nice 'N' Easy" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Lewis Spence) – 2:47
  8. Medley: "I See Your Face Before Me"/"In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz)/(Bob Hilliard, David Mann) – 4:16
  9. "Can't We Be Friends?" (Paul James, Kay Swift) – 3:57
  10. "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:04
  11. "Last Dance" (Cahn, Van Heusen) – 2:23

Personnel

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References

  1. Dryden, Ken. Dear Mr. Sinatra John Pizzarelli at AllMusic. Retrieved July 5, 2007.
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1169. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.