Jazz Abroad

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Jazz Abroad
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Studio album by
Released1955
RecordedNovember 10, 1953 and October 3, 1954
StudioStockholm, Sweden
Genre Jazz
Length45:07
Label EmArcy
Roy Haynes chronology
Roy Haynes Modern Group
(1956)
Jazz Abroad
(1955)
We Three
(1959)
Quincy Jones chronology
Jazz Abroad
(1955)
This Is How I Feel About Jazz
(1956)

Jazz Abroad is a split album by American jazz drummer Roy Haynes and Quincy Jones with tracks recorded in Sweden in 1953 and 1954 and released by EmArcy. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars. [2]

Track listing

Side A:

  1. "Pogo Stick" (Quincy Jones) - 6:20
  2. "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn) - 5:36
  3. "Jones' Bones" (Jones) - 5:42
  4. "Sometimes I'm Happy" (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, Vincent Youmans) - 5:54

Side B:

  1. "Little Leona" (Adrian Acea) - 4:56
  2. "Miss Mopsy" (Joe Benjamin) - 5:07
  3. "Gone Again" (Curtis Lewis) - 6:03
  4. "Hagnes" (Roy Haynes, Sahib Shihab) - 5:29

Personnel

Side A:

Side B:

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References

  1. EmArcy discography accessed October 26, 2015
  2. 1 2 Allmusic listing accessed October 26, 2015