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All I Wanna Do Is Swing

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Released
  
1955

Producer
  
Jack Lewis

Artist
  
Joe Newman

Label
  
RCA Records

Length
  
38:46

All I Wanna Do Is Swing (1955)
  
The Count's Men (1955)

Release date
  
1955

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
February 8, 1955 Webster Hall, New York City

Similar
  
Joe Newman albums, Jazz albums

All I Wanna Do Is Swing (subtitled The Joe Newman Story) is an album by jazz trumpeter Joe Newman's Octet recorded in 1955 for the RCA Victor label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:42
  2. "Limehouse Blues" (Philip Braham, Douglas Furber) - 3:25
  3. "Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Fabian Andre, Wilbur Schwandt, Gus Kahn) - 2:36
  4. "Corner Pocket" (Freddie Green) - 2:42
  5. "If I Could Be with You" (James P. Johnson, Henry Creamer) - 3:07
  6. "It's a Thing of the Past" (Manny Albam) - 2:46
  7. "Pretty Skinny Bunny" (Ernie Wilkins) - 2:29
  8. "Leonice" (Joe Newman) - 3:36
  9. "Jack's Wax" (Al Cohn) - 2:31
  10. "Topsy" (Eddie Durham, Edgar Battle) - 3:17
  11. "Captain Spaulding" (Cohn) - 3:29
  12. "I Could Have Told You" (Carl Sigman, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:57
  13. "Lullaby of Birdland" (George Shearing, George David Weiss) - 3:09 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

  • Joe Newman- trumpet
  • Frank Rehak - trombone
  • Ernie Wilkins - alto saxophone
  • Al Cohn - tenor saxophone
  • Nat Pierce - piano
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Milt Hinton - bass
  • Shadow Wilson - drums
  • Manny Albam (tracks 1, 6, 8 & 13), Al Cohn (tracks 2, 5, 9 & 11), Ernie Wilkins (tracks 3, 4, 7, 10 & 12) - arranger

    • References

    All I Wanna Do Is Swing Wikipedia
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