Parfait (album)

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Parfait
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Studio album by
Ron Carter Quartet
Released1982
RecordedSeptember 29, 1980
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length36:32
Label Milestone
M-9107
Producer Ron Carter for Retrac Productions
Ron Carter chronology
Patrão
(1980)		Parfait
(1982)		 Empire Jazz
(1980)

Parfait is an album by the double bassist Ron Carter which was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in 1980 and released on the Milestone label in 1982. [1]

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Track listing

All compositions by Ron Carter except where noted.

  1. "Parfait" – 4:48
  2. "New Waltz" – 6:00
  3. "Receipt, Please" – 7:15
  4. "Blues for D.P." – 10:33
  5. "'Round Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 7:56

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Milestone Label Discography" (PDF). Both Sides Now Publications. p. 8. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
    - "Milestone Records 9000 series discography". Jazzlists. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
    - "Ron Carter catalog". Jazz Discography Project. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Parfait: Ron Carter at AllMusic. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ Swenson, John, ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. Random House. p. 39.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2004). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin Books. p. 158.


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