Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... | |
Type: | Studio |
Artist: | Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers |
Cover: | Selections from Lerner and Loewe's.jpg |
Released: | 1957 |
Recorded: | March 13, 1957 Webster Hall, New York City |
Genre: | Jazz |
Label: | Vik LX 1103 |
Producer: | Bob Rolontz |
Prev Title: | A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers |
Prev Year: | 1957 |
Next Title: | Cu-Bop |
Next Year: | 1957 |
Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1957 and released on the RCA Victor subsidiary label Vik.[1] [2] [3] The album features jazz interpretations of show tunes from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's musicals My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Paint Your Wagon.
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, the review by Scott Yanow stating: "One of the rarest of all Art Blakey records... Despite some of the musicians' unfamiliarity with the songs, this date is quite successful".[4]
All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe