Jazz Cello

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Jazz Cello
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Studio album by
Released1960
RecordedAugust 31, September 1, 1960
Genre Jazz
Length32:18
Label Verve
Producer Ken Druker
Ray Brown chronology
This Is Ray Brown
(1956)
Jazz Cello
(1960)
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(1962)
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Jazz Cello is a 1960 album by Ray Brown. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Tangerine" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 3:17
  2. "Almost Like Being in Love" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 4:14
  3. "That Old Feeling" (Lew Brown, Sammy Fain) – 4:38
  4. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 5:12
  5. "Alice Blue Gown" (Harry Tierney, Joseph McCarthy) - 2:40
  6. "Rosalie" (Cole Porter) – 3:06
  7. "But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:00
  8. "Poor Butterfly" (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell) – 3:17
  9. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 4:53
  10. "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (Sam M. Lewis, Jean Schwartz, Joe Young) – 2:06

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. 184. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Jazz Cello at AllMusic