Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport

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Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport
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Live album by
Released1957
RecordedJuly 5 & 6, 1957
Newport Jazz Festival, RI
Genre Jazz
Label Verve
MGV 8237
Producer Norman Granz
Eddie Costa chronology
The Eddie Costa - Vinnie Burke Trio
(1956)
Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport
(1957)
Eddie Costa Quintet
(1957)
Don Elliott chronology
Don Elliott at the Modern Jazz Room
(1957)
Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport
(1957)
The Voices of Don Elliott
(1957)

Eddie Costa, Mat Mathews & Don Elliott at Newport is a live album featuring performances by Eddie Costa's Trio/Quintet, Mat Mathews' Quartet and Don Elliott's Quartet recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 and released on the Verve label. [1] [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, John La Touche, Ted Fetter)
  2. "There'll Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)
  3. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye)
  4. "I Never Knew" (Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn)
  5. "Flamingo" (Ted Grouya, Edmund Anderson)
  6. "Windmill Blues" (Mat Mathews)
  7. "Dancing in the Dark" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz)
  8. "I Love You" (Cole Porter)
  9. "'S Wonderful" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)

Personnel

Tracks 1-3

Tracks 4-6

Tracks 7-9

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References

  1. Verve Records Catalog: 8200 series accessed June 20, 2016
  2. Discogs album entry accessed June 20, 2016