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Seven Standards and a Blues

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Released
  
1957

Seven Standards and a Blues(1957)
  
Last Chorus(1956-57)

Release date
  
1957

Label
  
Riverside Records

Length
  
39:33

Artist
  
Ernie Henry

Producer
  
Orrin Keepnews

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 30, 1957Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Jazz albums
  
Last Chorus, Presenting Ernie Henry, Look Out for Evans Bradshaw!, It's Magic, The Chicago Sound

Seven Standards and a Blues is the second album by American jazz saxophonist Ernie Henry featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars with Scott Yanow stating "Recorded just three months before his unexpected death, this set by altoist Ernie Henry is his definitive album as a leader... Superior modern mainstream music, but there should have been much more from the potentially significant Ernie Henry".

Track listing

  1. "I Get a Kick Out of You" (Cole Porter) - 4:39
  2. "My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting) - 2:46
  3. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 6:33
  4. "Sweet Lorraine" (Cliff Burwell, Mitchell Parish) - 5:01
  5. "Soon" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 6:00
  6. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) - 2:41
  7. "Specific Gravity" (Ernie Henry) - 6:39
  8. "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 5:14

Personnel

  • Ernie Henry - alto saxophone
  • Wynton Kelly - piano
  • Wilbur Ware - bass
  • Philly Joe Jones - drums

    • Songs

    1I Get a Kick Out of You4:38
    2My Ideal2:45
    3I've Got the World on a String6:32

    References

    Seven Standards and a Blues Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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