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Alone Together (1932 song)

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"Alone Together" is a song composed by Arthur Schwartz with lyrics by Howard Dietz. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Flying Colors in 1932 by Jean Sargent.

The song soon became a hit, with Leo Reisman and His Orchestra's 1932 recording being the first to reach the charts. It is the most popular of Schwartz and Dietz's collaborations and has become a jazz standard. The first jazz artist to record the song was Artie Shaw in 1939.

Selective list of recorded versions

  • Artie Shaw – (1939 & 1940)
  • Dizzy Gillespie – (1950)
  • Art Blakey – At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1955)
  • Miles Davis – Blue Moods (1955)
  • Pepper Adams - Critic's Choice (1957)
  • Steve Lacy – Soprano Sax (1957)
  • Julie London – Make Love to Me (1957)
  • Sonny Rollins – Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (1958)
  • Dorothy Ashby – In a Minor Groove (1958)
  • Chet Baker – Chet (1959)
  • Kenny Dorham Quartet – Prestige Records (1959)
  • Peggy Lee – Things Are Swingin' (1959)
  • Judy Garland – That's Entertainment! (1960) & Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961)
  • Mel Tormé - My Kind of Music (1961)
  • Ray Charles and Betty Carter – Ray Charles and Betty Carter (1961)
  • Grant Green – Green Street (1961)
  • Ella Fitzgerald and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra – Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1962)
  • Eric Dolphy – Conversations (1963)
  • Stanley Turrentine – Easy Walker (1966)
  • Carmen McRae - Hotel (movie) (1967)
  • Ray Brown – Bass Hit! (1969)
  • Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie – Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974)
  • Horace Parlan – Musically Yours (1979)
  • Dinah Washington - Dinah Jams (1954, remastered 1990)
  • Ron Carter and Jim Hall – Alone Together (1991)
  • Joe Pass and John Pisano – Duets (1991)
  • Robert Glasper Trio – Mood (2004)
  • McCoy Tyner – Illuminations (2004)
  • Carly Simon – Moonlight Serenade (2005)
  • Billy Childs - " The Child Within" (2005)
  • Erin Bode – Over and Over (2006)
  • Stefano Bollani - "I Visionari" (2006)
  • Rufus Wainwright – Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall (2007)
  • Michael Weiss – Power Station (2007)

    • References

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