It Might as Well Be Spring (Kenny Drew album)

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It Might as Well Be Spring
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Released1982
RecordedNovember 23, 1981
StudioBarigozzi Studios, Milano, Italy
Genre Jazz
Length42:53
Label Soul Note
SN 1040
Producer Giovanni Bonandrini
Kenny Drew chronology
All the Things You Are
(1981)
It Might as Well Be Spring
(1982)
Havin' Myself a Time
(1981)
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It Might as Well Be Spring is a solo album by American jazz pianist Kenny Drew recorded in 1981 and released on the Soul Note label. [2]

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Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Kenny Drew's 1981 solo piano session for Soul Note is a notch better than his 1973 Steeplechase CD, Everything I Love . In the space of less than a decade, the veteran shows tremendous growth". [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Drew except as indicated

  1. "Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 6:43
  2. "Blues for Nils" - 4:25
  3. "The Quiet Cathedral" - 5:13
  4. "Sunset" - 4:35
  5. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 7:01
  6. "The Smile of Tanya" (Sahib Shihab) - 5:12
  7. "Django" (John Lewis) - 6:04
  8. "Dreams" - 3:40

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed June 11, 2012
  2. Kenny Drew discography accessed June 11, 2012