Glad I Found You

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Glad I Found You
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Studio album by
Released1984
RecordedJuly 30, 1984
Genre Jazz
Length42:19
Label SteepleChase
Horace Parlan chronology
Like Someone in Love
(1983)
Glad I Found You
(1984)
Little Esther
(1987)

Glad I Found You is an album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded in 1984 and released on the Danish-based SteepleChase label. [1]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Parlan sounds inspired by the other musicians on this spirited hard bop set". [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing

All compositions by Horace Parlan except as indicated
  1. "Monday Morning Blues" - 4:52
  2. "Hip Walk" (Bernt Rosengren) - 10:06
  3. "Oblivion" (Bud Powell) - 6:02
  4. "Something for Silver" - 7:49
  5. "Glad I Found You" (Al Levitt) - 6:58
  6. "Afternoon in Paris" (John Lewis) - 6:32

Personnel

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References

  1. SteepleChase Records catalog Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 23, 2010
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 23, 2010
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1130. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.