Serious Swingers

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Serious Swingers
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Studio album by
Released1987
RecordedDecember 2, 3 & 4, 1986
StudioBerkeley, California
Genre Jazz
Length58:17
Label Contemporary
C 14031
Producer Richard Bock
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Serious Swingers is an album by saxophonists Bud Shank and Bill Perkins recorded in 1986 and released on the Contemporary label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
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Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic stated: "the co-leaders are in excellent form on six underplayed standards and three group originals. The music swings hard without being overly predictable". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Nictation" (Alan Broadbent) - 4:47
  2. "As Sure as You're Born" (Alan Bergman, Johnny Mandel) - 6:49
  3. "Blue in Green" (Miles Davis) - 6:46
  4. "Out of This World" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 7:47
  5. "Blazing Paddles" (Bud Shank) - 4:20
  6. "Nu Blues for B B" (Bill Perkins) - 4:02
  7. "C.T.A." (Jimmy Heath) - 5:10
  8. "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 5:02
  9. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 5:21
  10. "Brazil" (Ary Barroso) - 8:13 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

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References

  1. Contemporary Records discography accessed June 30, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Serious Swingers – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved June 10, 2015.