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Kwamina (album)

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Released
  
1961

Kwamina (1961)
  
Impromptu (1962)

Release date
  
1961

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
32:41

Artist
  
Billy Taylor

Label
  
Mercury Records

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Recorded
  
September 12-14, 1961 New York City

Similar
  
Billy Taylor albums, Jazz albums

Kwamina is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor featuring jazz interpretations of compositions from the Broadway musical Kwamina written by Richard Adler which was recorded in 1961 and released on the Mercury label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "the music never seriously grabs the listener's attention, though the musicians are playing up to the level one expects of them. Serious Billy Taylor fans will undoubtedly still want to search for this obscure, long unavailable record".

Track listing

All compositions by Richard Adler

  1. "Something Big" - 3:36
  2. "I'm Seeing Rainbows" - 2:54
  3. "Ordinary People" - 4:21
  4. "The Cocoa Bean Song" - 3:12
  5. "What's Wrong With Me" - 2:53
  6. "Nothing More to Look Forward To" - 4:34
  7. "Another Time, Another Place" - 3:40
  8. "Happy Is the Cricket" - 4:23
  9. "Sun Is Beginning to Crow" - 3:08

Personnel

  • Billy Taylor - piano
  • Clark Terry - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Julius Watkins - French horn
  • Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
  • Phil Woods - alto saxophone
  • Frank Wess - tenor saxophone
  • Jerome Richardson - baritone saxophone
  • Les Spann - guitar
  • George Duvivier - bass
  • Osie Johnson - drums
  • Jimmy Jones Jr. - arranger

    • References

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