It's a Blue World (Red Garland album)

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It's a Blue World
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1970
RecordedFebruary 7, 1958
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length35:50
Label Prestige
PRLP 7838
Producer Bob Weinstock
Red Garland chronology
Dig It!
(1962)
It's a Blue World
(1970)
Manteca
(1958)
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It's a Blue World is an album by jazz pianist Red Garland, recorded in 1958 but not released on Prestige Records until 1970. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "This Can't Be Love" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 8:30
  2. "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) – 12:43
  3. "Crazy Rhythm" (Irving Caesar, Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn) – 3.27
  4. "Teach Me Tonight" (Gene de Paul, Sammy Cahn) – 9:03
  5. "It's a Blue World" (Robert Wright, George Forrest) – 5:34

Personnel

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References

  1. AllMusic Review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 526. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. At JazzDisco