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The Reunion (George Shearing and Stéphane Grappelli album)

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Released
  
1976

The Reunion (1976)
  
Windows (1977)

Label
  
MPS Records

Length
  
42:58

Release date
  
1976

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
April 11, 1976 at Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Studio, Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany

Producer
  
Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer

Artists
  
Stéphane Grappelli, George Shearing

Similar
  
Young Django, Velvet Carpet, La Grande Reunion

The Reunion is a 1976 album by jazz pianist George Shearing and violinist Stéphane Grappelli.

Contents

Reception

Ron Wynn reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "Shearing's sessions are usually more introspective and light than upbeat and hot, but Grappelli's soaring, exuberant violin solos seem to put a charge into Shearing, who responds with some of his hottest playing in many years".

Track listing

  1. "I'm Coming Virginia" (Donald Heywood, Will Marion Cook) – 3:00
  2. "Time After Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) – 4:43
  3. "La Chanson de Rue" (Stéphane Grappelli) – 3:55
  4. "Too Marvelous for Words" (Richard A. Whiting, Johnny Mercer) – 4:04
  5. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 4:06
  6. "Makin' Whoopee" (Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson) – 5:03
  7. "After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 4:18
  8. "Flamingo" (Edmund Anderson, Ted Grouya) – 4:21
  9. "Star Eyes" (Don Raye, Gene de Paul) – 3:10
  10. "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 5:34

Personnel

  • George Shearing – piano, liner notes
  • Stéphane Grappelli – violin
  • Andy Simpkins – double bass
  • Rusty Jones – drums
    • Production
  • Martin Kunzler – liner notes
  • David Redfern, U. Erdt – photography
  • Franz Froeb – cover design
  • Willi Fruth – recording director
  • Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer – producer, engineer

    • Songs

    1I'm Coming Virginia3:01
    2Time After Time4:45
    3La chanson de rue3:55

    References

    The Reunion (George Shearing and Stéphane Grappelli album) Wikipedia
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