Live at the Living Room

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Live at the Living Room
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Live album by The Three Sounds
Released 1964
Recorded 1964
Venue The Living Room, Cincinnati, OH
Genre Jazz
Length39:46
Label Mercury
MG 20921/SR 60921
Producer Quincy Jones
The Three Sounds chronology
Some Like It Modern
(1963)		Live at the Living Room
(1964)		 Three Moods
(1965)

Live at the Living Room is a live album by The Three Sounds which was recorded in Cincinnati in 1964 and released on the Mercury label. [1] [2] [3]

The Three Sounds were an American jazz piano trio that formed in 1956 and disbanded in 1973.

Mercury Records record label

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. In the United States, it operates through Island Records; in the UK, it is distributed by Virgin EMI Records.

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Reception

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Allmusic's Scott Yanow noted, "This Mercury LP finds the trio mostly sticking to bluesy material, plus a couple of Oscar Peterson tunes ... every song sounds a bit like the blues on this hard-to-find set". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Gene Harris except where noted

  1. "Mississippi Mud" (Harry Barris) − 2:28
  2. "Once in a Lifetime" (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) − 2:42
  3. "Hymn to Freedom" (Oscar Peterson, Harriett Hamilton) − 3:46
  4. "Glory of Love" − 4:05
  5. "Blues for My Baby" − 4:20
  6. "Green's" − 3:15
  7. "Blues" − 5:44
  8. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) − 6:25
  9. "Blues for Big Scotia" (Peterson) − 3:01

Personnel

Gene Harris American pianist

Gene Harris was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospel infused style that is known as soul jazz.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Andrew Simpkins was an American jazz bassist.

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References

  1. ↑ Matsubayashi, K. Mercury Records Collection: MG-20921: Live At The Living Room / The Three Sounds accessed January 25, 2018
  2. ↑ The Three Sounds Catalog, accessed January 25, 2018
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia del Jazz: Gene Harris discography accessed January 25, 2018.
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Live at the Living Room – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 25, 2018.
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