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Released
  
1975

Release date
  
1975

Label
  
CTI Records

Artist
  
Paul Desmond

Producer
  
Creed Taylor

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 24, 25 & 26, 1974 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Length
  
58:32 Reissue with bonus tracks

Pure Desmond (1974)
  
Like Someone in Love (1975)

Similar
  
Paul Desmond albums, Jazz albums

Paul desmond pure desmond 1974


Pure Desmond is an album by American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond recorded in 1974 and released on the CTI label.

Contents

Paul desmond squeeze me


Track listing

  1. "Just Squeeze Me" (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines) - 4:31
  2. "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) - 4:55
  3. "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt, Jacques Larue) - 5:13
  4. "Why Shouldn't I?" (Cole Porter) - 3:34
  5. "Everything I Love" (Porter) - 3:48
  6. "Warm Valley" (Duke Ellington) - 4:26
  7. "Till the Clouds Roll By" (Jerome Kern, P. G. Wodehouse) - 4:08
  8. "Mean to Me" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) - 5:46
  9. "Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)" (Johnny Mandel) - 3:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 6:16 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Nuages" [alternate take] (Reinhardt, Larue) - 4:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "Just Squeeze Me" [alternate take] (Ellington, Gaines) - 4:05 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "Till the Clouds Roll By" [alternate take] (Kern, Wodehouse) - 5:12 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 24 (tracks 1, 12 & 13), September 25 (tracks 3, 4 & 7) and September 26 (tracks 2, 5, 6, & 8-11)

    • Personnel

  • Paul Desmond - alto saxophone
  • Ed Bickert - electric guitar
  • Ron Carter - bass
  • Connie Kay - drums
  • Don Sebesky - musical supervision

    • Reception

    The Allmusic reviewer Richard S. Ginell stated "With the Skylark "experiment" behind him, Paul Desmond reverted to the relaxed quartet format that suited him well in the past... In fact, it sparked a Desmond renaissance where he regained a good deal of the witty spark and erudite cool".

    Songs

    1Squeeze Me4:33
    2I'm Old Fashioned4:53
    3Nuages5:15

    References

    Pure Desmond Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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