Alone Together (Benny Carter album)

Alone Together
Studio album by Benny Carter with His Strings and the Oscar Peterson Quartet
Released 1956
Recorded September 18 & 19, 1952
Reeves Sound Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Label Norgran
MGN 1058
Producer Norman Granz
Benny Carter chronology
Alone Together
(1952)		 Cosmopolite
(1952-53)
The Formidable Benny Carter Cover

Alone Together is an album by American jazz saxophonist Benny Carter and Orchestra with the Oscar Peterson Quartet recorded in 1952 which was released on the Norgran label.[1][2] The album features tracks that were originally released on the 10 inch LP The Formidable Benny Carter along with additional recordings from the same sessions.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]

Allmusic awarded the album 2 stars.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Isn't It Romantic?" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:40 Originally released on MGN 21
  2. "Some Other Spring" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) - 3:45 Originally released on MGN 21
  3. "These Things You Left Me" (Harold Dickinson, Sidney Lippman) - 3:38 Originally released on MGN 21
  4. "Gone With the Wind" (Allie Wrubel, Herb Magidson) - 2:59
  5. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:57
  6. "Long Ago (and Far Away)" (Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin) - 3:05
  7. "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 2:36 Originally released on MGN 21
  8. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 3:13 Originally released on MGN 21
  9. "Cocktails for Two" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) - 2:58 Originally released on MGN 21
  10. "Key Largo" (Benny Carter, Karl Suessdorf, Leah Worth) - 3:07 Originally released on MGN 21
  11. "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:21
  12. "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk) - 3:17 Originally released on MGN 21

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Norgran Label Discography, accessed March 29, 2016
  2. ↑ Norgran Records Catalog: 1000 series accessed March 29, 2016
  3. ↑ Norgran Records Catalog: Ten Inch series accessed March 29, 2016
  4. 1 2 Allmusic listing, accessed March 29, 2016
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