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Herbie Mann Plays

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Released
  
1956

Artist
  
Herbie Mann

Label
  
PoppyDisc

Length
  
31:39

Release date
  
1956

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
December, 1954 and unknown date in 1956 New York City

Herbie Mann Plays (1956)
  
Love and the Weather (1956)

Similar
  
Herbie Mann albums, Jazz albums

Herbie Mann Plays is an album by flautist Herbie Mann on the Bethlehem label featuring seven tracks originally released on the 10 inch LP East Coast Jazz/4 (1954) along with four tracks which were recorded in 1956. The CD reissue added three alternate takes.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars noting "This set is a good example of Herbie Mann's early style before he started exploring various types of world musics".

Track listing

All compositions by Herbie Mann except as indicated

  1. "Chicken Little" - 3:00
  2. "Cuban Love Song" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh Herbert Stothart) - 3:16
  3. "The Things We Did Last Summer" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 4:15
  4. "Deep Night" (Charles E. Henderson, Rudy Vallée) - 3:40
  5. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 4:05
  6. "After Work" - 4:07
  7. "Moon Dreams" (Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer) - 3:29
  8. "A Spring Morning" - 2:45
  9. "Scuffles" - 2:57
  10. "The Purple Grotto" - 2:44
  11. "My Little Suede Shoes" (Charlie Parker) - 2:43
  12. "A Spring Morning" [alternate take] - 2:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "The Purple Grotto" [alternate take] - 2:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "Chicken Little" [alternate take] - 3:11 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

  • Herbie Mann - flute
  • Joe Puma (tracks 2, 4, 7, 9), Benny Weeks (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10-14) - guitar
  • Keith Hodgson (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10-14), Whitey Mitchell (tracks 2, 4, 7, 9) - bass
  • Lee Rockey (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 10-14), Herb Wasserman (tracks 2, 4, 7, 9) - drums

    • Songs

    1Chicken Little3:01
    2Cuban Love Song3:16
    3The Things We Did Last Summer4:15

    References

    Herbie Mann Plays Wikipedia
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