Look Stop Listen

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Look Stop Listen
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Studio album by
Released1983
RecordedJuly 11, 1983
Studio Van Gelder Studio Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length55:10
Label Uptown
UP 27.15
Producer Helen Keane, Mark Feldman, Robert E. Sunenblick MD.
Philly Joe Jones chronology
To Tadd with Love
(1982)
Look Stop Listen
(1983)
The Rotterdam Session
(1985)
Dameronia chronology
To Tadd with Love
(1982)
Look Stop Listen
(1983)
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt Paris
(1994)

Look Stop Listen (listed on label as Look Stop and Listen) is an album by drummer Philly Joe Jones' Dameronia which was recorded and released on the Uptown label in 1983. [1] [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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The album was nominated for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards. [5]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow said the album was "Highly recommended". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Tadd Dameron except where noted

  1. "Look, Stop and Listen" – 5:52
  2. "If You Could See Me Now" – 5:34
  3. "Choose Now" – 5:30
  4. "Focus" – 5:49
  5. "Killer Joe" (Benny Golson) – 6:08
  6. "Dial B for Beauty" – 5:05
  7. "Our Delight" – 4:27
  8. "Theme of No Repeat" – 5:52
  9. "If You Could See Me Now" [1st Take] – 5:41 Additional track on CD release
  10. "Look, Stop and Listen" [1st Take] – 5:12 Additional track on CD release

Personnel

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References

  1. Jazzlists: Uptown Records discography accessed May 8, 2018
  2. Philly Joe Jones Catalog accessed May 8, 2018
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Dameronia: Look Stop and Listen – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 8, 2018.
  4. Swenson, John, ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. Random House. p. 114.
  5. "All GRAMMY Awards and Nominations for Philly Joe Jones". Grammy.com. Retrieved December 29, 2023.