Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones

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Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones
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Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedApril 4, 1993
StudioFocus, Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length58:47
Label Enja
8040
Producer Diana Flanagan
Tommy Flanagan chronology
Flanagan's Shenanigans
(1993)
Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones
(1993)
Lady Be Good ... For Ella
(1993)

Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones is an album by pianist Tommy Flanagan featuring compositions by Thad Jones, recorded in 1993 for the Enja label. [1] [2]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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AllMusic's Scott Yanow stated: "Congratulations are due Tommy Flanagan for putting together a consistently swinging and tasteful salute to Thad Jones, a very talented composer". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Thad Jones.

  1. "Let's" – 5:32
  2. "Mean What You Say" – 5:39
  3. "To You" – 3:34
  4. "Bird Song" – 5:28
  5. "Scratch" – 5:23
  6. "Thadrack" – 4:38
  7. "A Child Is Born" – 6:19
  8. "Three in One" – 6:03
  9. "Quietude" – 5:12
  10. "Zec" – 3:50
  11. "Elusive" – 7:09

Personnel

References

  1. Tommy Flanagan Catalog accessed August 8, 2016
  2. Discogs album entry, accessed August 8, 2016
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 8, 2016.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1996). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (3rd ed.). Penguin. p. 456. ISBN   978-0-14-051368-4.