Jazz Erotica

Jazz Erotica
Studio album by Richie Kamuca and Bill Holman
Released	November 1957
Recorded	May 26–27, 1957
Genre	Jazz
Length	40:57
Label	HIFI Records

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Five Cents Please	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Jazz Erotica is a 1957 jazz album by American tenor saxophone player Richie Kamuca and baritone saxophone player Bill Holman. It was rereleased in 1959, without the "quite revealing painting of a nude woman on the cover", under the "more conventional title" West Coast Jazz in Hifi. ^[4]

AllMusic critic Ken Dryden commented that one should expect to pay "a premium price" for it. ^[1] Tim Neely's Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide (2011) suggests $200 for a near-mint copy. ^[5]

Track listing

Side One

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"'Way Down Under"	Bill Holman	3:32
2.	"Blue Jazz"	Richie Kamuca	4:20
3.	"Angel Eyes"	Matt Dennis Earl Brunt	3:55
4.	"Stella By Starlight"	Victor Young Ned Washington	3:19
5.	"Star Eyes"	Don Raye Gene de Paul	4:34

Side Two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"I Hadn't Anyone Till You"	Ray Noble	4:23
7.	"Linger Awhile"	Vincent Rose Harry Owens	3:42
8.	"The Things We Did Last Summer"	Jule Styne Sammy Cahn	4:37
9.	"If You Were No One"	Bill Holman	4:02
10.	"Indiana"	James F. Hanley Ballard MacDonald	4:33
Total length:			40:57

Personnel

• Richie Kamuca – tenor saxophone
• Bill Holman – baritone saxophone
• Frank Rosolino – trombone
• Conte Candoli – trumpet
• Ed Leddy – trumpet
• Vince Guaraldi – piano
• Monty Budwig – bass
• Stan Levey – drums

References

1. Dryden, Ken. "Jazz Erotica". AllMusic . Retrieved June 6, 2016.
2. Bang, Derrick. "Vince Guaraldi on LP and CD: West Coast Jazz in Hifi". fivecentsplease.org. Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 808. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Bang, Derrick (2012). Vince Guaraldi at the Piano. McFarland. pp. 64–65. ISBN   9780786490745.
5. Neely, Tim (2011). Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide: 50 Years of Jazz on Vinyl. Krause. p. 283. ISBN   9781440227721.

External links

• JAZZ EROTICA at lpcover.wordpress.com