Selections from Lerner and Loewe's...

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Released1957
RecordedMarch 13, 1957
Webster Hall, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Vik
LX 1103
Producer Bob Rolontz
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Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1957 and released on the RCA Victor subsidiary label Vik. [1] [2] [3] The album features jazz interpretations of show tunes from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musicals My Fair Lady , Brigadoon , and Paint Your Wagon .

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Reception

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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, the review by Scott Yanow stating: "One of the rarest of all Art Blakey records... Despite some of the musicians' unfamiliarity with the songs, this date is quite successful". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe

  1. "I Could Have Danced All Night" - 4:16
  2. "On the Street Where You Live" - 9:02
  3. "There But for You Go I" - 4:34
  4. "They Call the Wind Maria" - 4:56
  5. "I Talk to the Trees" - 8:58
  6. "Almost Like Being in Love" - 4:50

Personnel

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References

  1. Art Blakey discography accessed June 4, 2013
  2. Art Blakey chronology accessed June 4, 2013
  3. RCA Vik Record Label Discography, accessed November 30, 2015
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott, Allmusic Review, accessed June 4, 2013.