Musically Yours

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Musically Yours
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Studio album by
Horace Parlan
Released1980
RecordedNovember 26, 1979
StudioSweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen
Genre Jazz
Length48:38
Label SteepleChase
Producer Nils Winther
Horace Parlan chronology
Blue Parlan
(1978)		Musically Yours
(1980)		 The Maestro
(1979)

Musically Yours is a solo album by American jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded in 1979 and released on the Danish-based SteepleChase label. [1] The album consists mainly of jazz standards and show tunes with one original by Parlan. The same sessions also produced Parlan's album The Maestro .

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Parlan tends to sound at his best in a trio where he can draw inspiration from his sidemen, so this often-sparse set of unaccompanied piano solos, despite some good moments, is not his most essential outing". [2]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

  1. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 6:14
  2. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) - 6:16
  3. "Musically Yours" (Horace Parlan) - 5:37
  4. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 7:03
  5. "Lullaby of the Leaves" (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young) - 5:25
  6. "Ruby, My Dear" (Thelonious Monk) - 5:47
  7. "Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller) - 6:27
  8. "Nardis" (Miles Davis) - 5:49

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ SteepleChase Records catalog Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 23, 2010
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed September 23, 2010
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1130. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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