Uptown (André Previn album)

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Uptown
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Studio album by
André Previn
ReleasedAugust 22, 1990
Genre Jazz
Length57:41
Label Telarc
Producer Elaine Martone, Robert Woods
André Previn chronology
After Hours
(1989)		Uptown
(1990)		 Old Friends
(1992)
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Uptown is a 1990 jazz album by André Previn, Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Harold Arlen; except where noted.

  1. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (4:42)
  2. "A Sleepin' Bee" (5:13)
  3. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (4:10)
  4. "Stormy Weather" (4:33)
  5. "Over The Rainbow" (4:36)
  6. "Let's Fall in Love" (3:21)
  7. "Day Dream / Prelude to a Kiss" (Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills, John Latouche) (4:43)
  8. "Good Queen Bess" (Johnny Hodges) (4:21)
  9. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) (4:19)
  10. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) (3:05)
  11. "Five O' Clock Whistle" (Gene Irwin, Josef Myrow, Kenny Gannon) (5:29)
  12. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) (4:11)
  13. "C Jam Blues" (Duke Ellington) (4:51)

Personnel

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  1. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1181. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.


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