Andre Previn - Uptown '1990

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 
02. A Sleepin Bee 
03. Come Rain Or Come Shine 
04. Stormy Weather 
05. Over The rainbow 
06. Lets Fall In Love 
07. Day Dream / Prelude To A Kiss 
08. Good Queen Bess 
09. Things Aint What They Used To Be 
10. It Dont Mean A Thing If It Aint Got That Swing 
11. Five O Clock Whistle 
12. Come Sunday 
13. C Jam Blues 


This was Andre Previns second album after his long, symphonically enforced
absence from jazz, and it sounds noticeably more fluid and relaxed than his
first. No longer apprehensive about dusting off his old skills, Previn is
delightfully confident and breezy (dig his sly turns on Come Rain or Come Shine
and C Jam Blues), taking some chances as he re-phrases and paraphrases a
collection of revivified standards, mostly Harold Arlen and assorted Duke
Ellington. Even if Previn, that noted wit, sometimes sounds as if he is kidding
the pants off these old tunes, its great to hear him having such a good time
playing jazz again. Mundell Lowe is Previns new guitar partner, and Ray Brown
returns on bass; both are right at home in this refined brand of chamber jazz
grooving. Adding to the CDs appeal are some marvelously (and typically) graceful
liner notes by Mel Powell, an old pal of Previns and a lively fellow defector
from the jazz piano ranks to the classical world.

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