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I Concentrate on You: A Tribute to Cole Porter

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Released
  
1974

Length
  
56:25

Producer
  
Nils Winther

Release date
  
1974

Recorded
  
July 30, 1974

Label
  
SteepleChase SCS 1018

Artists
  
Lee Konitz, Red Mitchell

Genre
  
Jazz

Studio
  
Rosenberg Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jazz albums
  
The Real Lee Konitz, The Lee Konitz Duets, You and Lee, Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Gi, Toot Sweet

I Concentrate on You: A Tribute to Cole Porter is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz and bassist Red Mitchell recorded in Denmark in 1974 and released on the Dutch SteepleChase label.

Contents

Critical reception

Ken Dryden on Allmusic said "With an inventive accompanist like Mitchell spurring him on, the alto saxophonist is able to work magical variations of the familiar Porter works, while Konitz retains his remarkable dry signature tone".

Track listing

All compositions by Cole Porter.

  1. "Just One of Those Things" – 5:08
  2. "Just One of Those Things" (Take 7) – 3:04 Bonus track on CD reissue
  3. "Easy to Love" – 3:13
  4. "It's All Right with Me" – 2:59
  5. "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Take 1) – 2:47 Bonus track on CD reissue
  6. "Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye" – 2:49
  7. "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" – 3:45
  8. "Love for Sale" – 5:15
  9. "In the Still of the Night" – 2:10
  10. "Night and Day" (Take 1) – 5:12 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Night and Day" – 3:54
  12. "I Love You" – 3:34
  13. "I Love Paris" – 3:22
  14. "I Concentrate on You" – 9:13

Personnel

  • Lee Konitz – alto saxophone
  • Red Mitchell – bass, piano

    • References

    I Concentrate on You: A Tribute to Cole Porter Wikipedia
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