Thinking of You (Duke Jordan album)

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Thinking of You
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Studio album by
Duke Jordan Trio
Released1982
RecordedJuly 11 1978 in New York City and October 29, 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length42:13CD with bonus tracks
Label SteepleChase SCS 1165
Producer Nils Winther
Duke Jordan chronology
Solo Masterpieces Vol. 2
(1979)		Thinking of You
(1982)		 Change a Pace
(1979)

Thinking of You is an album led by pianist Duke Jordan recorded in 1979 in Denmark (with one track from 1978) and released on the Danish SteepleChase label in 1982. [1] [2]

Duke Jordan American musician

Irving Sidney "Duke" Jordan was an American jazz pianist.

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording performances at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American expatriates played, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material on record.

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Reception

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AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars stating it "swings nicely in an underplayed fashion". [3]

AllMusic online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Jordan

  1. "The Fuzz" - 4:46
  2. "Thinking of You" - 5:47
  3. "Anything Can Happen" - 6:32
  4. "The Peanut Bar" - 4:00
  5. "Foxie Cakes" - 5:27
  6. "Light Foot" - 5:41
  7. "My Queen Is Home to Stay" - 4:21
  8. "Deacon's Blues" - 5:11
  9. "Diamond Stud" - 5:03 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "It's Hard to Know" - 7:14 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

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

Billy Hart American jazz drummer

Billy Hart is an American jazz drummer and educator.

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References

  1. ↑ Duke Jordan discography, accessed March 24, 2015
  2. ↑ SteepleChase Records discography, accessed March 24, 2015
  3. 1 2 Rusch, Bob. Thinking of You – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved March 24, 2015.
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