Album description
1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.Caprice: CAP 21313.
Jazz suite for solo double bass (1st work); the remainder are songs for piano and voice.
Red Mitchell, double bass, vocals, and piano.
Recorded at Red Mitchell’s apartment in Stockholm, January 16-17, 1985.
Performed on a double bass made by Paul Claudot, circa 1835.
Issued also as analog disc: Caprice: CAP 1313.
Program notes and texts to songs ([10] p.), inserted.
Contents: Bass suite : sweet bass: Embraceable you / G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin (4:20) ; You’d be so nice to come home to / Cole Porter (2:25) ; If I should loose [i.e. lose] you / Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin (3:35) ; These foolish things / Jack Strachey, Erik Maschwitz (4:15) -- I love you / Cole Porter (4:00) ; Embraceable you / G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin (:55) -- Body and soul / Green ... [et al.] (4:45) -- The genius to compose / Red Mitchell (5:05) -- Arrival / Horace Parlan, Red Mitchell (3:35) -- Rainy night / Red Mitchell (2:40) -- Lush life / Billy Strayhorn (3:45) -- Corruptus interruptus / Red Mitchell (5:45) -- Heaven’s here / Red Mitchell (3:25).
Genre
1. | Double bass music (Jazz) |
2. | Jazz--1981-1990 |
3. | Popular music--1981-1990 |
Performers
1. | Mitchell, Red, 1927-1992 |