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Alone Together (Benny Carter album)

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Released
  
1956

Alone Together (1952)
  
Cosmopolite (1952-53)

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Label
  
Norgran MGN 1058

Release date
  
1956

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 18 & 19, 1952 Reeves Sound Studios, NYC

Artists
  
Benny Carter, Oscar Peterson

Similar
  
Cosmopolite, New Jazz Sounds, Benny Carter Meets Os, Jazz Giant, Travelin' On

Benny carter alone together


Alone Together is an album by American jazz saxophonist Benny Carter and Orchestra with the Oscar Peterson Quartet recorded in 1952 which was released on the Norgran label. The album features tracks that were originally released on the 10 inch LP The Formidable Benny Carter along with additional recordings from the same sessions.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Isn't It Romantic?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:40 Originally released on MGN 21
  2. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) - 3:45 Originally released on MGN 21
  3. "These Things You Left Me" (Harold Dickinson, Sidney Lippman) - 3:38 Originally released on MGN 21
  4. "Gone With the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 2:59
  5. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:57
  6. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin) - 3:05
  7. "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 2:36 Originally released on MGN 21
  8. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:13 Originally released on MGN 21
  9. "Cocktails for Two" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) - 2:58 Originally released on MGN 21
  10. "Key Largo" (Benny Carter, Karl Suessdorf, Leah Worth) - 3:07 Originally released on MGN 21
  11. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:21
  12. "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 3:17 Originally released on MGN 21

Personnel

  • Benny Carter - alto saxophone
  • Oscar Peterson - piano
  • Barney Kessel - guitar
  • Ray Brown - bass
  • Buddy Rich - drums
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by Joe Glover (tracks 1-3, 7-10 & 12)

    • References

    Alone Together (Benny Carter album) Wikipedia
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