While My Lady Sleeps

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While My Lady Sleeps
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Studio album by
Phineas Newborn Jr.
Released1957
RecordedApril 23 & 24, 1957
New York City
Genre Jazz
Label RCA Victor LPM 1474
Phineas Newborn Jr. chronology
Phineas' Rainbow
(1957)		While My Lady Sleeps
(1957)		 Phineas Newborn Jr. Plays Harold Arlen's Music from Jamaica
(1957)

While My Lady Sleeps is an album by American jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. with Dennis Farnon and His Orchestra recorded in 1957 and released on the RCA Victor label. [1] [2]

Phineas Newborn Jr. American pianist

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Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Although not as vital as his usual trio dates and Farnon's string arrangements are not too inspiring, the music is pleasing and finds Newborn in his early prime". [3]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

  1. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 5:06
  2. "Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)" (Mack David, Duke Ellington) – 5:05
  3. "Lazy Mood" (Eddie Miller, Johnny Mercer) – 5:22
  4. "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Mercer) – 3:57
  5. "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (Traditional) – 4:05
  6. "While My Lady Sleeps" (Bronisław Kaper, Gus Kahn) – 6:12
  7. "It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:02
  8. "Bali Ha'i" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:21
  9. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 5:48

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Phineas Newborn Jr. catalog, accessed May 11, 2015
  2. ↑ Phineas Newborn Jr. discography, accessed May 11, 2015
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. While My Lady Sleeps – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 11, 2015.
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