Quietude (Lenny Breau album)

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Quietude
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Live album by
Released1985
RecordedJune 14, 1983
Venue Bourbon Street, Toronto
Genre Jazz
Label Electric Muse
Lenny Breau chronology
Legacy
(1984)
Quietude
(1985)
The Living Room Tapes, Vol. 1
(1986)

Quietude is a live album by Canadian guitarist Lenny Breau that was released posthumously in 1985.

Contents

Originally released on LP in 1985, it was remastered and reissued in 1995 on the Guitarchives label as Live at Bourbon St. with additional tracks. [1]

Track listing

  1. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 8:35
  2. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 5:49
  3. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 6:37
  4. "Quiet and Blue" (Lenny Breau) – 2:45
  5. "All Blues" (Miles Davis) – 7:36
  6. "Visions" (McCoy Tyne) – 13:26

Personnel

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