Nice Day with Buddy Collette

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Nice Day with Buddy Collette
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Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedNovember 6 & 29, 1956 and February 18, 1957
Contemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Length38:29
Label Contemporary C3531
Producer Lester Koenig
Buddy Collette chronology
Man of Many Parts
(1956)
Nice Day with Buddy Collette
(1957)
Cool, Calm & Collette
(1957)

Nice Day with Buddy Collette is the second album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Buddy Collette, recorded at sessions in late 1956 and early 1957 and released on the Contemporary label. [1]

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Reception

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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Overall this set serves as a good all-around showcase for Buddy Collette's playing and writing talents". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Buddy Collette except as indicated

  1. "Nice Day" - 4:19
  2. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) - 4:26
  3. "Minor Deviation" (Dick Shreve) - 4:42
  4. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) - 5:15
  5. "Change It" - 3:19
  6. "Moten Swing" (Bennie Moten, Buster Moten) - 3:26
  7. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 3:09
  8. "Blues for Howard" - 4:03
  9. "Fall Winds" - 6:28
  10. "Buddy Boo" - 4:31

Personnel

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References

  1. Contemporary Records discography accessed May 28, 2015
  2. 1 2 Scott Yanow, Scott. Nice Day with Buddy Collette – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  3. Hall, Tony (21 June 1958). "Reviews". Disc . No. 20. p. 19.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 278. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.