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Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness

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Released
  
1983

Length
  
45:54

Producer
  
Norman Granz

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
October, 1983

Release date
  
1983

Label
  
Universal Music LLC

Artists
  
Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald

Similar
  
Jaws, Smokin', Jawbreakers, The Eddie "Lockjaw, Trackin'

Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness is a 1983 live album by various artists as part of the Jazz at the Philharmonic.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Benny Krueger, Nathan "Ned" Miller, Jule Styne) – 10:25
  2. "Undecided" (Sid Robins, Charlie Shavers) – 10:42
  3. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 2:43
  4. "God Bless the Child" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Billie Holiday) – 3:16
  5. "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 3:14
  6. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Razaf) – 2:59
  7. "Emily" (Johnny Mandel, Johnny Mercer) – 1:56
  8. "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 2:33
  9. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 3:14
  10. "What's New?" (Burke, Bob Haggart) – 3:01
  11. "Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:35
  12. "But Beautiful" (Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:31
  13. "My Romance" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:46
  14. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) – 3:18
  15. "Spotlite" (Coleman Hawkins) – 9:24
  16. "Peace" (Oscar Peterson) – 7:46
  17. "Shining Hour" (Ernest Gold) – 4:52
  18. "Mississauga Rattler" (Peterson) – 6:32
  19. "Alice in Wonderland" (Sammy Fain, Bob Hilliard) – 7:17
  20. "City Lights" (Peterson) – 6:39
  21. "Blues" (Peterson) – 4:10
  22. "Manteca" (Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) – 2:31
  23. "Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 5:27
  24. "All of Me" (Harold Marks, Seymour Simons) – 3:56
  25. "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:04
  26. "Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 4:18
  27. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:43
  28. Medley: "The Man I Love"/"Body and Soul" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)/(Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 5:43
  29. "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) – 4:06
  30. "Flying Home" (Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Leo Robin) – 9:50

Performance

  • Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
  • Harry "Sweets" Edison – trumpet
  • Clark Terry
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis – tenor saxophone
  • Zoot Sims
  • Al Grey – trombone
  • J. J. Johnson
  • Oscar Peterson – piano
  • Paul Smith
  • Joe Pass – guitar
  • Keter Betts – double bass
  • Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
  • Louie Bellson – drums
  • Martin Drew
  • Bobby Durham

    • Production

  • Norman Granz – producer
  • Benny Green – liner notes

    • Songs

    1Sunday (live at Yoyogi National Stadium - Tokyo)Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars10:26
    2Undecided (live at Yoyogi National Stadium - Tokyo)Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars10:42
    3I Can't Get Started (live at Yoyogi National Stadium - Tokyo)Al Grey2:43

    References

    Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness Wikipedia
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