This Is Ray Brown

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This Is Ray Brown
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Studio album by
Released1958
RecordedFebruary 27, 28, 1958
Genre Jazz
Length32:18
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
Ray Brown chronology
Bass Hit!
(1956)
This Is Ray Brown
(1958)
Jazz Cello
(1960)

This Is Ray Brown is a 1958 studio album by American jazz double bass player Ray Brown. [1]

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Track listing

  1. "Bric-A-Brac" (Ray Brown) – 5:33
  2. "Upstairs Blues" (Brown) – 6:40
  3. "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) – 4:38
  4. "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:16
  5. "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 8:06
  6. "Cool Walk" (Brown) – 6:31
  7. "Jim" (Caesar Petrillo, Milton Samuels, Nelson Shawn) – 9:00

Personnel

Performance

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References

  1. 1 2 "This Is Ray Brown". Allmusic . Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 186. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.