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The Standard
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 30, 2008
Genre Jazz
Length45:52
Label Heads Up International
Producer Mark Kibble
Co-producer
David Thomas
Co-producer
Cedric Dent
Co-producer
Claude V. McKnight III
Co-producer
Khristian Dentley
Executive producer
Dave Love
Take 6 chronology
Feels Good
(2006)
The Standard
(2008)
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
(2010)

The Standard, released on September 30, 2008, on Heads Up International, is a jazz music album by the American contemporary Gospel music group Take 6.

Track listing

  1. " Sweet Georgia Brown" ( Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey Sr, Ben Bernie) 3:26
  2. " Straighten Up and Fly Right" (featuring George Benson) ( Nat King Cole, Irving Mills) 3:22
  3. "Seven Steps to Heaven" (featuring Jon Hendricks, Al Jarreau, and Till Brönner) ( Miles Davis, Victor Stanley Feldman) 5:27
  4. " Windmills of Your Mind" ( Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) 4:26
  5. " Someone to Watch Over Me" (featuring Shelea Frazier and Roy Hargrove) ( George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 4:23
  6. "Grace (Pre-prise)" ( Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock) 0:36
  7. "Back to You" ( Claude V. McKnight III, Victoria Venier) 4:09
  8. " A Tisket a Tasket" (featuring Ella Fitzgerald) ( Ella Fitzgerald, Van Alexander) 2:36
  9. " Bein' Green" ( Joe Raposo) 2:03
  10. " Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" (featuring Aaron Neville) ( Louis Alter, Edgar DeLange) 2:47
  11. " What's Going On" (featuring Brian McKnight) ( Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye) 4:12
  12. " Shall We Gather at the River" ( Robert Lowry) 3:41
  13. "Grace" ( Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock) 4:38

Awards

The album was nominated for a Dove Award for Contemporary Gospel Album of the Year at the 40th GMA Dove Awards. Their rendition of the song " Shall We Gather at the River?" was also nominated for Contemporary Gospel Recorded Song of the Year. [1]

References