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Chris Connor on Contemporary Records

contemporary CCD-14023-2

This album was produced by Helen Keane for Contemporary Records and the sessions were recorded at Secret Sound Studios in New York City on August 5-6, 1986. Richard Rodney Bennett arranged the charts with the following instrumentation:

Michael Abene-acoustic piano (#1,3,4,5,9), DX-7 (#2); Richard Rodney Bennett-acoustic piano (#1,6,7,8,10,11), DX-7 (#3,5,9); Paquito D'Rivera-alto sax; Claudio Roditi-trumpet, flugelhorn; Rufus Reid-bass; Akira Tana-drums.

TRACKS:

• 1. Let's Face The Music And Dance (Irving Berlin)


• 2. Laura (David Raksin-Johnny Mercer)


• 3. Sweet Happy Life (Luiz Bonfa-Antonio M. De Moraes-Andre M. Salvet-Norman Gimbel)


• 4. In Love In Vain (Jerome Kern-Leo Robin)


• 5. Love Medley:


• What Is This Thing Called Love (Cole Porter)


• You Don't Know What Love Is (Don Raye-Gene DePaul)


• Love (Hugh Martin-Ralph Blaine)


• 6. The Nearness Of You (Hoagy Carmichael-Ned Washington)


• 7. Ten Cents A Dance (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart)


• 8. Blame It On My Youth (Oscar Levant-Edward Heyman)


• 9. Brazil (Ary Barroso-Bob Russell)


• 10. We'll Be Together Again (Marvin Fisher-Frankie Laine)


• 11. Let's Take The Long Way Home (Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer)