Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color

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Released 1956 Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color(1956) The Man I Love(1957) Release date 1956 Label Capitol Records		Length 43:59 Artist Frank Sinatra Producer Voyle Gil Genres Jazz, Easy listening

Recorded February 22 - March 15, 1956 Similar Frank Sinatra albums, Jazz albums

Victor young white 1956

Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color is a 1956 album of tone poems composed by eight notable mid-20th century Hollywood arrangers, with each composition inspired by the poetry of Norman Sickel.

As well as being conducted by Sinatra this album marked the first musical collaboration between Sinatra and Gordon Jenkins.

A chapter discussing the album, "The Colors of Ava: Tone Poems of Color and the Painful Measure of Sinatra's Passions," appears in A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit (Greenwood Press, 2002) by Gilbert L. Gigliotti.

Track listing

"White" (Victor Young) – 4:14
"Green" (Gordon Jenkins) – 4:05
"Purple" (Billy May) – 4:21
"Yellow" (Jeff Alexander) – 2:38
"Gray" (Alec Wilder) – 4:29
"Gold" (Nelson Riddle) – 3:36
"Orange" (Nelson Riddle) – 4:57
"Black" (Victor Young) – 3:58
"Silver" (Elmer Bernstein) – 4:38
"Blue" (Alec Wilder) – 4:38
"Brown" (Jeff Alexander) – 4:01
"Red" (André Previn) – 3:57

Recording Dates

Tracks 1, 7, 8 & 11 were recorded February 22, 1956.

Tracks 9 & 12 were recorded February 28, 1956.

Tracks 2, 4, 5 & 10 were recorded March 07, 1956.

Tracks 3 & 6 were recorded March 15, 1956.

All Tracks recorded & engineered by John Palladino.

Personnel

Frank Sinatra - Conductor

Songs

1White4:14
2Green4:05
3Purple4:21

References

Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color Wikipedia

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