How Insensitive (album)

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How Insensitive
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Released1969
RecordedApril 11, April 14 & May 5, 1969
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length33:58
Label Blue Note
Producer Duke Pearson
Duke Pearson chronology
Now Hear This
(1968)
How Insensitive
(1969)
Merry Ole Soul
(1969)

How Insensitive is the fourteenth album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson featuring performances by Pearson's band augmented by a choir, recorded over three sessions in 1969 and released on the Blue Note label. [1]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 2 stars stating "Each song on How Insensitive boasts extravagant, layered arrangements that flirt with schmaltz, but the voicings and attack are so unusual, the result is a weird variation on easy listening. There is little opportunity for Pearson to showcase his tasteful playing through improvisation, yet the arrangements are so off-kilter, the music never quite works as background music. In other words, it's a very interesting failure and one of the strangest by-products of Blue Note's late-'60s commercialization". [2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Duke Pearson except where noted

  1. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 4:39
  2. "Clara" (George Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) – 2:43
  3. "Give Me Your Love" – 3:24
  4. "Cristo Redentor" – 3:53
  5. "Little Song" (Jack Manno) – 2:53
  6. "How Insensitive" (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) – 2:13
  7. "Sandalia Dela" (Pearson, Manno) – 3:28
  8. "My Love Waits (O Meu Amor Espera)" (Pearson, Manno) – 4:35
  9. "Tears" (Eumir Deodato, Ray Gilbert, Paulo Valle) – 3:29
  10. "Lamento" (Jobim, de Moraes) – 2:51
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ on April 11 (tracks 1 & 3–5), April 14 (tracks 2, 6 & 8), & May 5 (tracks 7, 9 & 10), 1969

Personnel

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References

  1. Duke Pearson discography accessed September 10, 2010
  2. 1 2 Erlewine, S. T. Allmusic Review accessed September 10, 2010