Just Friends (Buddy Tate, Nat Simkins and Houston Person album)

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Just Friends
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Studio album by
Buddy Tate, Nat Simkins and Houston Person
Released1992
RecordedFebruary 15, 1990
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length46:51
Label Muse
MCD 5418
Producer Houston Person
Houston Person chronology
Now's the Time
(1990)		Just Friends
(1992)		 Why Not!
(1991)
Buddy Tate chronology
Just Jazz
(1984)		Just Friends
(1992)

Just Friends, subtitled The Tenors of Buddy Tate, Nat Simkins, Houston Person, is an album by saxophonists Buddy Tate, Nat Simkins and Houston Person that was released by Muse in 1992. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Track listing

  1. "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode) – 6:39
  2. "Ellington Medley: Day Dream/In a Sentimental Mood/Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn/Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills/Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Mills) – 7:38
  3. "Lucaya Blue" (Nat Simkins) – 5:03
  4. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Fats Waller, Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf) – 5:58
  5. "Buddy's Blues" (Buddy Tate) – 7:50
  6. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 6:48
  7. "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 6:55

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Muse Records Listing". jazzdiscography.com. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Muse discography 5400 to 5449". www.jazzlists.com. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Payne, Douglas (27 June 2009). "A Houston Person Discography". Sound Insights. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Nat Simpkins catalog". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
  5. ↑ Houston Person: Just Friends - Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
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