Meeting the Tenors

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Meeting the Tenors
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Studio album by
Doug Raney Sextet
Released1984
RecordedApril 29, 1983
StudioStudio 44, Monster, Netherlands
Genre Jazz
Length48:13
Label Criss Cross Jazz
Criss 1006
Producer Gerry Teekens
Doug Raney chronology
Nardis
(1983)
Meeting the Tenors
(1984)
Everything We Love
(1983)
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Meeting the Tenors is an album by guitarist Doug Raney recorded in 1983 and released on the Dutch label, Criss Cross Jazz. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Up in Quincy's Room" (Gigi Gryce) – 7:50
  2. "Blues for Bart" (Ferdinand Povel) – 8:58
  3. "Waltz Number One" (Horace Parlan) – 6:56
  4. "Arrival" (Parlan) – 7:37
  5. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 7:29
  6. "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" (Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar) – 9:20

Personnel

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References

  1. Doug Raney: Meeting the Tenors – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1191. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. Criss Cross Jazz album details, accessed March 23, 2017