I Love a Piano (album)

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I Love a Piano
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Studio album by Phineas Newborn Jr.
Released 1960
Recorded October 26, 27, 28 & 29, 1959
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Roulette R 52043
Producer Teddy Reig
Phineas Newborn Jr. chronology
Piano Portraits by Phineas Newborn
(1959) Piano Portraits by Phineas Newborn1959		I Love a Piano
(1959)		 A World of Piano!
(1961) A World of Piano!1961

I Love a Piano is an album by American jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. recorded in 1959 and released on the Roulette label. [1]

Phineas Newborn Jr. American pianist

Phineas Newborn Jr. was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Bud Powell.

Roulette Records was an American record company and label founded in 1957 by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Kahl, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed director.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4½ stars. [2]

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Track listing

  1. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:41
  2. "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 3:04
  3. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Razaf) – 3:55
  4. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:27
  5. "The Midnight Sun Will Never Set" (Dorcas Cochran, Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador) – 4:03
  6. "Real Gone Guy" (Nellie Lutcher) – 2:12
  7. "Undecided" (Sid Robin, Charlie Shavers) – 3:40
  8. "Ivy League Blues" (Phineas Newborn Jr.) – 3:46
  9. "Love and Marriage" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:01
  10. "Give Me the Simple Life" (Rube Bloom, Harry Ruby) – 4:12

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

John Simmons (musician) American jazz bassist

John Simmons was an American jazz bassist.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Phineas Newborn Jr. discography, accessed May 12, 2015
  2. 1 2 Allmusic listing, accessed May 12, 2015
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