The Sound of Feeling

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Released 1968 Artist Oliver Nelson Producer Creed Taylor Genre Jazz		Length 35:23 Release date 1968 Label Verve Records
Recorded November 3 & 4, 1966 and December 11, 1967Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ and Los Angeles, CA The Sound of Feeling(1966-67) The Spirit of '67(1967) Similar Oliver Nelson albums, Jazz albums

The sound of feeling up into silence limelight 1968

The Sound of Feeling (full title Leonard Feather Presents The Sound of Feeling and The Sound of Oliver Nelson) is a jazz album featuring two separate groups featuring Oliver Nelson recorded in late 1966 and released on the Verve label. The split album begins with five tracks by the Los Angeles based group The Sound of Feeling, featuring identical twin vocalists Alyce and Rhae Andrece and pianist Gary David with the addition of soloist Nelson. Four tracks are by the Encyclopedia of Jazz All Stars, a big band composed of top New York studio musicians, arranged and conducted by Nelson which were recorded to accompany Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties.

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 2 stars.

Track listing

"My Favorite Things" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:24
"Waltz Without Words" (Gary David) - 4:09
"Who Knows What Love Is?" (David) - 4:25
"Phrases" (Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece) - 3:40
"Circe Revisited" (David, Bob Fylling) - 5:56
"Ricardo's Dilemma" (Roy Ayers) - 2:33
"Patterns for Orchestra" (Oliver Nelson) - 3:07
"The Sidewalks of New York" (Charles B. Lawlor, James W. Blake) - 6:27
"Greensleeves" (Traditional) - 2:26

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ on November 3, 1966 (track 6) and November 4 (tracks 7-9), 1966 and in Los Angeles, CA on December 11, 1967 (tracks 1-5).