George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell Play the Music of Cole Porter

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George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell Play the Music of Cole Porter

Studio album by

George Shearing

Released

1986

Recorded

January 1986

Concord CC 2010^[1]

George Shearing chronology

Grand Piano
(1986)

George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell Play the Music of Cole Porter
(1986)

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(1985)

George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell Play the Music of Cole Porter is a 1986 album of the music of Cole Porter by jazz pianist George Shearing and classical French horn player Barry Tuckwell. The pair play as a duet on four selections, two are performed as a quartet with bass and drums, and the remaining five are accompanied by a small orchestra of string players. All arrangements are by Shearing.^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "In general Tuckwell does not improvise but Shearing's arrangements give a jazz feel to all of the performances and make the music accessible (if not really essential) to both classical and jazz listeners".^[2]

Track listing

"I Concentrate on You" – 4:58 (orchestra)
"Everything I Love" – 2:54 (quartet)
"I've Got You Under My Skin" – 4:43 (duet)
"Easy to Love" – 2:19 (orchestra)
"In the Still of the Night" – 2:45 (duet)
"Every Time We Say Goodbye" – 4:00 (orchestra)
"But in the Morning, No" – 2:41 (quartet)
"So in Love" – 5:32 (orchestra)
"After You" – 4:27 (duet)
"All Through the Night" – 3:55 (orchestra)
"Do I Love You?" – 5:16 (duet)

All compositions by Cole Porter

Personnel

George Shearing – piano, liner notes, arranger
Barry Tuckwell – french horn, liner notes
Guildhall String Ensemble
Harry Lookofsky, Frederick Buldrini, Lewis Eley, Maura Giannini, Carmel Malin, Joseph Malin, Louann Montesi – violin
Seymour Barab, Avron Coleman, Frederick Zlotkin – cello
Mike Renzi – conductor
John Clayton, Don Thompson – double bass
Grady Tate – drums, percussion
Ed Trabanco – engineer
Carl Jefferson – producer

References

^ "George Shearing & Barry Tuckwell – Play the Music of Cole Porter (Vinyl, LP)". discogs.com. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Plays Music of Cole Porter at AllMusic
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1287. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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