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Jazz Spectacular
Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedOctober 24–25, 1955
Genre Vocal
Length48:18
Label Columbia
Frankie Laine chronology
Mr. Rhythm
(1955)
Jazz Spectacular
(1956)
Frankie Laine and the Four Lads
(1956)

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]

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Track listing

Track Song title Composer(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 Hines
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}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help)

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