The Place to Be (Junior Cook album)

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The Place to Be
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Studio album by
Junior Cook Quartet
Released1989
RecordedNovember 23, 1988
Genre Jazz
Length60:58CD release with bonus tracks
Label SteepleChase
SCS-1240
Producer Nils Winther
Junior Cook chronology
Somethin's Cookin'
(1981)
The Place to Be
(1989)
On a Misty Night
(1989)

The Place to Be is an album by saxophonist Junior Cook recorded in 1988 and released on the SteepleChase label. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Track listing

  1. "Cedar's Blues" (Cedar Walton) – 5:03
  2. "I Should Have Known" (Mickey Tucker) – 11:33
  3. "Are You Real" (Benny Golson) – 5:36
  4. "She Rote" (Charlie Parker) – 4:32 Bonus track on CD release
  5. "Gnid" (Tadd Dameron) – 9:03 Bonus track on CD release
  6. "This Is the Place to Be" (Tucker) – 7:50
  7. "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 8:54
  8. "Cup Bearer" (Tom McIntosh) – 8:05

Personnel

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References

  1. SteepleChase Productions ApS accessed April 18, 2017
  2. Junior Cook Leader Entry accessed April 18, 2017
  3. Junior Cook catalog accessed April 18, 2017
  4. Jazzlists: Junior Cook discography accessed April 18, 2017
  5. The Place to Be – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  6. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 300. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.