Laura [Jazz in Paris]

by Don Byas

Laura [Jazz in Paris] cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 2000
  • Label: Gitanes Jazz
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 54:49
  • Community rating: 3.74/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Three Paris sessions from the early 1950s by American tenor saxophonist Don Byas, a former Count Basie and Duke Ellington sideman who settled in Europe. Issued in Universal's Jazz in Paris series, the recordings catch his big-toned, harmonically fluent playing in intimate French studio company.

Genres

Descriptors: saxophone, melodic, sophisticated, retro, slow

Tracklist

  1. Summertime (2:49)
  2. Night And Day (2:35)
  3. Easy To Love (2:57)
  4. Where Or When (2:37)
  5. Flamingo (2:56)
  6. Stardust (3:17)
  7. Old Man River (2:48)
  8. The Man I Love (2:43)
  9. Georgia On My Mind (2:52)
  10. Over The Rainbow (2:50)
  11. Laura (4:14)
  12. Somebody Loves Me (2:52)
  13. Old Folks At Home (3:18)
  14. Riviera Blues (Blue 脌 La Don) (2:38)
  15. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (2:56)
  16. I Cover The Waterfront (4:05)
  17. It's The Talk Of The Town (3:26)
  18. A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody (2:56)

Credits

  • Don Byas - primary artist, tenor saxophone, written-by
  • Daniel Richard - coordinator, producer
  • Les T茅l茅cr茅ateurs - artwork
  • Alain Tercinet - liner notes
  • Martin Davies - liner notes [english translation]
  • Roger-Viollet - photography by [cover photo]
  • Mephisto Studio - photography by [photo: don byas]
  • George & Ira Gershwin - written-by
  • Cole Porter - written-by
  • Rodgers & Hart - written-by
  • Edmund Anderson - written-by
  • Theodor Grouya - written-by
  • Hoagy Carmichael - written-by
  • Mitchell Parish - written-by
  • Hammerstein-Kern - written-by
  • Stuart Gorrell - written-by
  • E.Y. Harburg - written-by
  • Harold Arlen - written-by
  • David Raksin - written-by
  • Johnny Mercer - written-by
  • Ballard MacDonald - written-by
  • Buddy G. De Sylva - written-by
  • George Gershwin - written-by
  • Stephen Foster - written-by
  • Jerome Kern - written-by
  • Otto Harbach - written-by
  • Edward Heyman - written-by
  • Johnny Green - written-by
  • Al Neiburg - written-by
  • Marty Symes - written-by
  • Irving Berlin - written-by

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