Alone Together (Ron Carter and Jim Hall album)

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Alone Together
Alone Together Hall Carter.jpg
Live album by
Jim Hall, Ron Carter
Released1973
RecordedAugust 4, 1972
VenuePlayboy Club, New York
Genre Jazz
Length43:54
Label Milestone
Producer Dick Katz
Jim Hall chronology
Where Would I Be?
(1971)		Alone Together
(1973)		 Concierto
(1975)
Ron Carter chronology
Uptown Conversation
(1969)		Alone Together
(1972)		 Blues Farm
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Alone Together is a live album by Jim Hall and Ron Carter, released in 1973. The album was recorded at the Playboy Club in New York on August 4, 1972. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins) – 4:44
  2. "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 5:51
  3. "Receipt, Please" (Ron Carter) – 4:59
  4. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 6:50
  5. "Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 2:52
  6. "Whose Blues?" (Jim Hall) – 5:54
  7. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) – 5:50
  8. "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prévert) – 6:54

Personnel

Charts

YearChartPosition
1973Billboard Jazz Albums33

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References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  39. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Allmusic entry for Alone Together. Retrieved December 2009.


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