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Phil Woods Quintet - American's Songbook

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Format: CD
Label: KIND OF BLUE
Catalog: 10005
Rel. Date: 06/20/2006
UPC: 076119100054

American's Songbook
Artist: Phil Woods Quintet
Format: CD
New: Currently Unavailable New
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Foggy Day
2. All the Things You Are
3. I've Got You Under My Skin
4. When the Sun Comes Out
5. I Concentrate on You
6. Summertime
7. Let's Fall in Love
8. Every Time We Say Goodbye
9. World on a String
10. Right as the Rain

More Info:

For Phil Woods, this album represents, as he puts it, "coming back to the great American songbook. I've been training for it my whole life. Many of my other albums have focused on obscure pieces by Duke Ellington and Oliver Nelson, my originals; and blowing sessions. But I've never before done a recording just of songs in settings like these." As a connoisseur of the American songbook, Phil pays affectionate attention to the verses, as you'll hear in these arrangements. Each of the players has ample space for soloing, but there is also a continual interplay between them that is the essence of Jazz ensemble democracy. What makes this combo rare in Jazz history is the celebratory fact that Phil, Bill Goodwin and Steve Gilmore have been together for some 29 years!
        
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