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Serenade to Sweden

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Released
  
1966

Label
  
Reprise Records

Release date
  
1966

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
February 28 & March 1, 1963

Serenade to Sweden (1963)
  
Studio Sessions New York 1963 (1963)

Artists
  
Duke Ellington, Alice Babs

Similar
  
Duke Ellington albums, Jazz albums

Serenade to Sweden is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington and vocalist Alice Babs recorded in 1963 and released on the Reprise label in 1966. The album was Alice Babs debut and was released on CD in 2017 by Real gone music.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Duke Ellington except as noted.

Recorded at Studio Hoche, Paris on February 28 (tracks 5, 9 & 14) and March 1 (tracks 1-4, 6-8 & 10-13), 1963.

Personnel

  • Duke Ellington – piano (tracks 1-11, 13 & 14)
  • Alice Babs - vocals
  • Unknown - french horn (tracks 5, 9 & 14)
  • Billy Strayhorn - piano (track 12)
  • Kenny Clarke (tracks 1-4, 6-8 & 10-13), Gilbert Rovere (tracks 5, 9 & 14) - bass
  • Sam Woodyard - drums

    • Songs

    1Serenade to Sweden3:10
    2The Boy in My Dreams2:30
    3Stoona2:53

    References

    Serenade to Sweden Wikipedia
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