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Potpourri (The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra album)

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1974 studio album by Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Potpourri
Studio album by Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Released1974
RecordedJune 1974
StudioSigma Sound, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
GenreJazz
Length44:08
LabelPhiladelphia International
ProducerBobby Martin
Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra chronology
Live in Tokyo
(1974) 		Potpourri
(1974) 		Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and Manuel De Sica
(1974)
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Potpourri is a 1974 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Philadelphia International Records label. The album was nominated for a 1975 Grammy award in the category, "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" and Thad Jones' arrangement of "Living for the City" was also nominated in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category that same year.

Track listing

LP side A:

  1. "Blues In A Minute" – 8:24
  2. "All My Yesterdays" – 4:31
  3. "Quiet Lady" – 7:31
  4. "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" (Stevie Wonder) – 3:58

LP side B:

  1. "For the Love of Money" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Anthony Jackson) – 4:12
  2. "Yours and Mine" – 3:46
  3. "Ambiance" (Marian McPartland; arranged by Jerry Dodgion) – 7:22
  4. "Living for the City" (Stevie Wonder) – 4:24

All songs composed and arranged by Thad Jones except as indicated.

Personnel

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. LA Times, "The Envelope" awards database. 1975 Grammy awards link. Accessed 2008 April 19.

External links

The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
Albums
Compilations
Jones / Lewis as
guest bandleaders
Video recordings
Pepper Adams
Albums as leader
With Donald Byrd
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