Some Like It Hot (Barney Kessel album)

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Some Like It Hot
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Studio album by
Barney Kessel
Released1959
RecordedMarch 30 & 31, and April 3, 1959
StudioContemporary Records Studio, Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Length48:49
Label Contemporary M3563/S7563
Producer Lester Koenig
Barney Kessel chronology
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Some Like It Hot (subtitled Modern Jazz Performances of Songs featured in the Motion Picture starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon Produced and Directed by Billy Wilder) is an album by guitarist Barney Kessel performing adaptations music from Billy Wilder's 1959 film Some Like It Hot , recorded in 1959 and released on the Contemporary label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Such tunes as 'I Wanna Be Loved by You,' 'Runnin' Wild,' 'Down Among the Sheltering Palms,' and 'By the Beautiful Sea' are given fairly modern arrangements but still retain the flavor of the 1920s, and it's particularly interesting to hear Gordon and Pepper soloing on these ancient songs". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Some Like It Hot" (Matty Malneck, I. A. L. Diamond) - 4:15
  2. "I Wanna Be Loved by You" (Harry Ruby, Herbert Stothart, Bert Kalmar) - 3:37
  3. "Stairway to the Stars" (Malneck, Mitchell Parish, Frank Signorelli) - 3:16
  4. "Sweet Sue" (Victor Young, Will J. Harris) - 4:42
  5. "Sweet Sue" [alternate take] (Young, Harris) - 4:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
  6. "Runnin' Wild" (Arthur Gibbs, Joe Grey, Leo Wood) - 3:19
  7. "Runnin' Wild" [alternate take] (Gibbs, Grey, Wood) - 6:31 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) - 3:39
  9. "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" (Abe Olman, James Brockman) - 4:01
  10. "Sugar Blues" (Clarence Williams, Lucy Fletcher, Edgar Sampson) - 3:24
  11. "I'm Thru with Love" (Malneck, Fud Livingston, Gus Kahn) - 3:14
  12. "By the Beautiful Sea" (Harry Carroll, Harold R. Atteridge) - 3:10

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Contemporary Records discography accessed May 25, 2015
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Some Like It Hot – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 821. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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