Jazz Spectacular

Jazz Spectacular is Frankie Laine's fifteenth 12" long-play album, recorded in 1955 and released early in 1956. This is a Frankie Laine theme album, the theme being jazz, recorded with jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton, pianist Sir Charles Thompson, tenor-saxophonist Budd Johnson, trombonist Urbie Green, and guest trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding.[1]

Jazz Spectacular
Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedOctober 24–25, 1955
GenreVocal
Length48:18
LabelColumbia
Frankie Laine chronology
Command Performance
(1955)
Jazz Spectacular
(1956)
Frankie Laine and the Four Lads
(1956)

Billboard magazine commenting on the album stated that Laine cut the tracks while rushing back and forth between his act at New York's Latin Quarter.[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic

Track listing

TrackSong titleComposer(s)
1."S'posin'"Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf
2."Stars Fell on Alabama"Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins
3."Until the Real Thing Comes Along"Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman
4."My Old Flame"Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston
5."You Can Depend on Me"Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines7
6."That Old Feeling"Lew Brown, Sammy Fain
7."Taking a Chance on Love"Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche
8."If You Were Mine"Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer
9."Baby, Baby All the Time"Bobby Troup
10."Roses of Picardy"Frederick Weatherly, Haydn Wood
11."You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To"Cole Porter

References

  1. "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
  2. "Billboard". February 25, 1956: 31. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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