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Music from West Side Story

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Released
  
1962

Length
  
41:56

Release date
  
1986

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
1962

Artist
  
The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Label
  
Columbia Records

Similar
  
The Dave Brubeck Quartet albums, Jazz albums

Music from West Side Story is a 1986 compilation album by Dave Brubeck and his quartet of music from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical West Side Story, with other tracks taken from Brubeck's albums Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1960) and Anything Goes: The Music of Cole Porter (1966) and My Favorite Things (1965).

Contents

Reception

The album was reviewed by Bruce Eder at Allmusic who wrote that it was "one of the more often overlooked albums" in Brubeck's Columbia and described it as "a lot of fun and well worth hearing...[the whole record] swings in some unexpected directions that still delight four-plus decades later."

Track listing

  1. "Maria" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 3:15
  2. "I Feel Pretty" (Bernstein, Sondheim - 5:07
  3. "Somewhere" (Bernstein, Sondheim) - 4:14
  4. "A Quiet Girl" (Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) - 2:21
  5. "Tonight" (Bernstein, Sondheim) - 3:46
  6. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) - 6:15
  7. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:16
  8. "Night and Day" (Porter) - 4:54
  9. "My Romance" (Hart, Rodgers) - 6:48

Personnel

  • Dave Brubeck - piano
  • Paul Desmond - alto saxophone
  • Eugene Wright - double bass
  • Joe Morello - drums
    • Production
  • Michael Berniker - CD Preparation
  • Steve Byram - design
  • Tim Geelan - engineer
  • Warren Linn - illustrations
  • Ambrose Reynolds - liner notes
  • Teo Macero - producer

    • Songs

    1Maria3:20
    2I Feel Pretty5:10
    3Somewhere4:16

    References

    Music from West Side Story Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA