Just Friends (Joe Temperley and Jimmy Knepper album)

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Just Friends
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Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedOctober 20, 1978
StudioMastertone Studio, NYC
Genre Jazz
Label Hep
Hep 2003
Producer Alastair Robertson
Joe Temperley chronology
Just Friends
(1979)
Nightingale
(1991)
Jimmy Knepper chronology
Jimmy Knepper in L.A.
(1977)
Just Friends
(1978)
Tell Me...
(1979)

Just Friends is an album led by saxophonist Joe Temperley and trombonist Jimmy Knepper which was recorded in 1978 and originally released on the Scottish Hep label. [1] The album was rereleased on CD in 1994 along with Primrose Path as Special Relationship. [2]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "John's Bunch" (John Bunch) – 4:55
  2. "Stella By Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:45
  3. "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 4:25
  4. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 3;50
  5. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 6:15
  6. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 6:10
  7. "Aristocracy (of Jean Lafitte)" (Duke Ellington) – 5:22
  8. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington) – 4:25
  9. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) – 5:08

Personnel

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References

  1. Fitzgerald, M. Jimmy Knepper Leader Entry accessed April 7, 2017
  2. Special Relationship – Listing at AllMusic . Retrieved April 7, 2017.