Please Send Me Someone to Love (album)

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Please Send Me Someone to Love
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Studio album by
Released1969
RecordedFebruary 12 & 13, 1969
Contemporary Records Studio, Hollywood, CA
Genre Jazz
Length41:50
Label Contemporary S7622
Producer Lester Koenig
Phineas Newborn Jr. chronology
The Newborn Touch
(1964)
Please Send Me Someone to Love
(1969)
Harlem Blues
(1969)

Please Send Me Someone to Love is an album by American jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. recorded in 1969 and released on the Contemporary label. [1] The album was recorded at the same sessions that produced Harlem Blues .

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The emphasis generally is on vintage tunes, and Newborn shows throughout that he was still very much in his musical prime". [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
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Track listing

  1. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 5:05
  2. "Rough Ridin'" (Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Jones, Bill Tennyson) – 4:09
  3. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 4:52
  4. "Brentwood Blues" (Phineas Newborn Jr.) – 8:01
  5. "He's a Real Gone Guy" (Nellie Lutcher) – 4:39
  6. "Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 7:03
  7. "Little Niles" (Randy Weston) – 4:20
  8. "Stay on It" (Count Basie, Tadd Dameron) – 5:05

Personnel

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References

  1. Phineas Newborn Jr. discography, accessed May 7, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Please Send Me Someone to Love – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 152. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1072. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.