My Kinda Swing

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My Kinda Swing
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1, 1961
RecordedLate 1960, New York City
Genre Vocal jazz
Length37:24
Label Mercury
Ernestine Anderson chronology
The Toast of the Nation's Critics
(1960)
My Kinda Swing
(1961)
Hello Like Before
(1977)
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My Kinda Swing is a 1961 studio album by Ernestine Anderson, arranged by Ernie Wilkins. This was the third and final album that Anderson recorded for Mercury Records, and the last album that she recorded for seventeen years. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "My Kinda Love" (Louis Alter, Jo Trent)
  2. "Trouble is a Man" (Stanley Adams, Harold Adamson, eden ahbez)
  3. "See See Rider" (Ma Rainey, Lena Arant)
  4. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf
  5. "Land of Dreams"
  6. "Black Moonlight"
  7. "All My Life"
  8. "Mound Bayou"
  9. "I'll Never Be The Same" (Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, Gus Kahn)
  10. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills)
  11. "Lazy Afternoon"
  12. "They Didn't Believe Me" (Jerome Kern, Herbert Reynolds)

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 36. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
  3. My Kinda Swing at AllMusic
  4. Verve Music Group - My Kinda Swing