I Don't Worry About a Thing

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I Don't Worry About a Thing
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Studio album by
Released1962
RecordedMarch 15, 1962
Studio Atlantic Studios, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length33:36
Label Atlantic
SD 1389
Producer Nesuhi Ertegun
Mose Allison chronology
Takes to the Hills
(1962)
I Don't Worry About a Thing
(1962)
Swingin' Machine
(1963)

I Don't Worry About a Thing is an album by American pianist, vocalist and composer Mose Allison recorded for the Atlantic label in 1962. [1] [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating, "this was his breakthrough date. One of jazz's greatest lyricists, at the time, Allison was making the transition from being a pianist who occasionally sang to becoming a vocalist who also played his own unusual brand of piano. ...the set is one of Mose Allison's most significant recordings". [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that, with its combination of material, "for some this is the classic Mose album". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Mose Allison except as indicated

  1. "I Don't Worry About a Thing" – 2:17
  2. "It Didn't Turn Out That Way" – 2:41
  3. "Your Mind Is on Vacation" – 2:35
  4. "Let Me See" (Count Basie, Harry Edison) – 4:08
  5. "Everything I Have Is Yours" (Burton Lane, Harold Adamson) – 4:07
  6. "Stand By" – 4:56
  7. "Idyll" – 4:15
  8. "The Well" – 3:30
  9. "Meet Me at No Special Place" (J. Russel Robinson, Arthur Terker, Harry Pyle) – 2:33
  10. "The Song Is Ended" (Irving Berlin) – 2:34

Personnel

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References

  1. Atlantic Records Catalog: 1300 series accessed September 25, 2015
  2. Mose Allison discography accessed September 25, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. I Don't Worry About a Thing – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved September 25, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 26. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.