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Moon Faced and Starry Eyed

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Released
  
1959

Artist
  
Max Roach

Producer
  
Hal Mooney

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
33:36

Release date
  
1959

Label
  
Diamond Days

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Recorded
  
October 9 & 10, 1959 Universal Recorders, Chicago

Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (1959)
  
Long as You're Living (1959)

Similar
  
Max Roach albums, Jazz albums

Moon Faced and Starry Eyed is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach, featuring vocalist Abbey Lincoln on two tracks, recorded in 1959 and released on the Mercury label.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "You're Mine, You" (Edward Heyman, Johnny Green) - 2:46
  2. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen) - 3:18
  3. "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) - 3:17
  4. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) - 2:50
  5. "I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter) - 4:51
  6. "Moon Faced, Starry Eyed" (Weill, Langston Hughes) - 2:55
  7. "Never Let Me Go" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) - 3:04
  8. "Namely You" (Gene de Paul, Mercer) - 2:48
  9. "Never Leave Me" (Gordon Jenkins) - 5:44

Personnel

  • Max Roach - drums
  • Tommy Turrentine - trumpet (tracks 2, 5 & 9)
  • Julian Priester - trombone (tracks 3, 5, 7 & 9)
  • Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 5, 8 & 9)
  • Ray Bryant - piano
  • Bob Boswell - bass
  • Abbey Lincoln - vocals (tracks 5 & 9)

    • Songs

    1You're Mine - You2:39
    2Come Rain or Come Shine3:16
    3Wild Is the Wind3:16

    References

    Moon Faced and Starry Eyed Wikipedia
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