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All Smiles (album)

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Released
  
1968

Label
  
MPS MPS 15 214

All Smiles (1968)
  
Faces (1968)

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
May 13–14, 1968

Producer
  
Gigi Campi

Release date
  
1968

Studio
  
Lindström Studios, Cologne, Germany

Artists
  
Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band, Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland

Similar
  
Francy Boland albums, Jazz albums

All Smiles is an album by the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band featuring performances recorded in Germany in 1968 and released on the MPS label. The album was also released in the US on Prestige Records as Let's Face the Music.

Contents

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Reception

The AllMusic review says "One of the qualities that set apart this aggregation from others of the same mettle was the smoothness of the playing. Smoothness here means sensuous and bluesy, not lifeless in the sense the term is used in contemporary jazz. There's a bounce to the up-tempo tunes, but the ostentatious playing other bands were noted for is shunned. A fine performance".

Track listing

  1. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 3:23
  2. "I'm All Smiles" (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 3:25
  3. "You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) – 3:03
  4. "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira) – 3:29
  5. "Get Out of Town" (Cole Porter) – 4:47
  6. "By Strauss" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:35
  7. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 4:16
  8. "Gloria" (Bronisław Kaper) – 4:21
  9. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 3:36
  10. "High School Cadets" (John Philip Sousa) – 2:05

Personnel

  • Kenny Clarke – drums
  • Francy Boland – piano, arranger
  • Benny Bailey, Jimmy Deuchar, Sonny Grey, Idrees Sulieman – trumpet
  • Nat Peck, Åke Persson, Eric van Lier – trombone
  • Derek Humble – alto saxophone
  • Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, Tony Coe – tenor saxophone
  • Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone, flute
  • Jimmy Woode – bass
  • Dave Pike – vibraphone
  • Kenny Clare – drums

    • References

    All Smiles (album) Wikipedia
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