Portrait of an Artist (album)

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Portrait of an Artist
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Studio album by Joe Albany
Released 1982
Recorded 1982
Studio CBS Studios, New York, NY and Ocean Way Recording, Hollywood CA
Genre Jazz
Length43:09
Label Elektra/Musician
60161
Producer Mike Berniker, Jeffrey Weber
Joe Albany chronology
Bird Lives!
(1979)		Portrait of an Artist
(1982)

Portrait of an Artist is the final studio album by pianist Joe Albany recorded in 1982 and released on the Elektra/Musician label. [1] [2]

Joe Albany was an American modern jazz pianist who played bebop with Charlie Parker as well as being a leader on his own recordings.

Elektra/Musician record label

Elektra/Musician was a jazz record label founded as a subsidiary of Elektra Records in 1982. The label was headed by Bruce Lundvall and released its first batch of albums on February 12, 1982. The label ceased when Lundvall left Elektra to start EMI's Manhattan Records in 1984. Elektra unsuccessfully attempted to revive the Elektra/Musician label in the late '80s.

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Allmusic's Scott Yanow said: "This mostly ballad-oriented trio set ... Albany, whose career (especially on records) did not really get going until his final decade, is in generally good form ... The album concludes with a brief interview that sums up some aspects of his episodic life". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Autumn in New York" (Vernon Duke) – 6:33
  2. "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 4:46
  3. "For the Little Guy" (Joe Albany) – 6:42
  4. "They Say It's Wonderful" (Irving Berlin) – 5:07
  5. "Too Late Now" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 5:30
  6. "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) – 5:38
  7. "Ruby, My Dear" (Thelonious Monk) – 3:45
  8. A Conversation with Joe Albany – 4:50

Personnel

Alexander "Al" Gafa is an American jazz guitarist.

George Duvivier American musician

George Duvivier was an American jazz double-bassist.

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The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzlists: Elektra Musician LP discography. Retrieved March 20, 2018
  2. ↑ Both Sides Now: Elektra/Asylum Album Discography, Part 8: Consolidated 60000 Series (1982– ). Retrieved March 20, 2018
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Portrait of an Artist – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 20, 2018.
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