With These Hands...

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With These Hands...
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Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedMarch 14 & 21, 1956
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length37:52
Label Riverside
RLP 12-214
Producer Orrin Keepnews, Bill Grauer
Randy Weston chronology
Get Happy with the Randy Weston Trio
(1955)
With These Hands...
(1956)
Trio and Solo
(1955-56)

With These Hands... is a jazz album by American jazz pianist Randy Weston, featuring saxophonist Cecil Payne, which was recorded in 1956 and released on the Riverside label. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, describing it as being "one of pianist Randy Weston's lesser-known sets". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Randy Weston except as indicated

  1. "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:05
  2. "Serenade in Blue" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) - 2:56
  3. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) - 8:47
  4. "This Can't Be Love" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 3:02
  5. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) - 4:39
  6. "Lifetime" - 4:18
  7. "Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 5:16
  8. "Little Niles" - 4:54

Personnel

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References

  1. Riverside Records discography accessed August 10, 2012
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed August 10, 2012
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1491. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.