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Sweetenings

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Released
  
1958

Artist
  
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Producer
  
Teddy Reig

Length
  
32:46

Release date
  
1958

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
November 12-14, 1958 New York City

Sweetenings (1958)
  
Patented by Edison (1960)

Label
  
Marathon Media International Ltd.

Similar
  
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis albums, Jazz albums

Sweetenings is an album by trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison featuring tracks recorded in 1958 which was originally released on the Roulette label.

Contents

Reception

AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars and its review by Ken Dryden states, "Harry "Sweets" Edison added something special to any date in which he took part, but these 1958 sessions he led for Roulette are especially enjoyable".

Track listing

All compositions by Harry "Sweets" Edison except as indicated

  1. "Centerpiece" - 3:25
  2. "Candy" (Alex Kramer, Mack David, Joan Whitney) - 2:30
  3. "Jive at Five" (Count Basie, Edison) - 2:48
  4. "Imagination" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 2:33
  5. "Louisiana" (J. C. Johnson, Andy Razaf) - 2:27
  6. "Harriet" - 3:10
  7. "It Happened in Monterey" (Billy Rose, Mabel Wayne) - 2:02
  8. "If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro) - 3:14
  9. "Paradise" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gordon Clifford) - 2:20
  10. "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" (Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) - 1:46
  11. "Pussy Willow" - 3:58
  12. "Sweetenings" - 2:33

Personnel

  • Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
  • Jimmy Forrest - tenor saxophone
  • Kenny Drew Jimmy Jones - piano
  • Joe Benjamin, John Simmons - bass
  • Charlie Persip - drums

    • Songs

    1Centrepiece3:30
    2Candy2:36
    3Jive At Five2:53

    References

    Sweetenings Wikipedia
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