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Black Satin

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Released
  
1956

Length
  
42:05

Release date
  
1956

Label
  
Capitol Records

Recorded
  
1956

Black Satin (1956)
  
Velvet Carpet (1956)

Producer
  
Dave Cavanaugh

Genre
  
Jazz

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Artists
  
George Shearing, The George Shearing Quintet

Similar
  
The George Shearing Quintet albums, Jazz albums

Black Satin is a 1956 studio album by the George Shearing quintet and orchestra, arranged by Billy May.

Contents

The initial Billboard magazine review from November 3, 1958 chose the album as one of its "Spotlight Winners of the Week" and commented that "Shearing's tasteful, delicate pianistics and the easy swinging jazz-flavor of the entire album".

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Track listing

  1. "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 7:19
  2. "If I Should Lose You" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 8:18
  3. "Starlight Souvenirs" (Ted Shapiro, Ilda Lewis, Reg Connelly) – 5:15
  4. "What Is There to Say" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) – 9:14
  5. "Black Satin" (George Shearing) – 5:35
  6. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) – 6:47
  7. "Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You" (Marvin Fisher, Jack Segal) – 4:03
  8. "One Morning In May" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) – 6:00
  9. "Moon Song" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) – 5:02
  10. Medley: "As Long as I Live"/"Let's Live Again" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler)/(Milt Raskin, Shearing) – 7:44

Personnel

  • George Shearing – piano
  • Billy May – arranger

    • Songs

    1The Folks Who Live on the Hill4:33
    2If I Should Lose You2:41
    3Starlight Souvenirs3:29

    References

    Black Satin Wikipedia
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