What Headphones?
1993 studio album by André Previn
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Released | 5 October 1993 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 51:27 | |||
Label | Angel Records – CDC 0777 7 54917 2 2[1] | |||
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What Headphones? is a 1993 album by André Previn.[2]
Reception
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The album was reviewed by Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic who wrote that it was Previn's "best album since his return to jazz at the close of the 1980s, and also the most surprising and unpredictable one of his entire jazz life". Ginell highlighted the title track, which he wrote was "almost avant-garde in its erudite looniness". Ginell praised Previn's playing as possessing "greater streaks of wit and a cannier use of space than ever before".[2]
Track listing
- "What Headphones?" (André Previn) – 6:09
- "You Are My All" (Myrna Summers) – 5:27
- "Take the 'A' Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 4:50
- "Outside the Cafe" (A. Previn) – 3:10
- "All Is Well" (Al Hobbs) – 4:42
- "A Portrait of Bert Williams" (Duke Ellington) – 4:13
- "Warm Valley" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 5:30
- "Holy Spirit in Me" (Jay Terrell) – 3:20
- "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 5:18
- "You're Gonna Hear from Me" (A. Previn, Dory Previn) – 4:19
- "You Never Gave Up on Me" (V. Michael McKay) – 4:32
Personnel
- André Previn – piano, arranger, liner notes
- Ray Brown – double bass
- Warren Vaché – cornet
- Richard Todd – French horn
- Mundell Lowe – guitar
- Jim Pugh – trombone
- Grady Tate – drums
- Earl Brown Singers
Production
- Bob Abriola – art direction, director
- Roy Clark, Richard Clarke – assistant engineer
- Alice Butts – digital artwork, package design
- Qwendolyn Brown – director, musical direction
- Earle Brown – director
- Phil Ramone – engineer, producer
- John Patterson – engineer
- Will Friedwald, Gene Lees – liner notes
- Bernie Grundman, Allen Silverman – mastering
- Bryan Carrigan – mixing assistant
- Don Hahn – mixing
- Daniel Root – photography
- Anaida Garcia – production assistant
- Jill Dell'Abate – project coordinator
- Hugh Fordin – reissue producer
References
- ^ – What Headphones?
- ^ a b c What Headphones? at AllMusic
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
- Collaboration (with Shorty Rogers, 1954)
- Double Play! (with Russ Freeman, 1957)
- Pal Joey (1957)
- Gigi (1958)
- André Previn Plays Songs by Vernon Duke (1958)
- King Size! (1958)
- André Previn Plays Songs by Jerome Kern (1959)
- West Side Story (1959)
- Like Previn! (1960)
- André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen (1960)
- Duet (with Doris Day, 1961)
- André Previn and J. J. Johnson (with J. J. Johnson, 1961)
- All Alone (1967)
- A Different Kind of Blues (with Itzhak Perlman, 1980)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It (with Ella Fitzgerald, 1983)
- After Hours (1989)
- Uptown (1990)
- Old Friends (1991)
- What Headphones? (1993)
- Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook (with Sylvia McNair, 1993)
- Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook (with Sylvia McNair, 1995)
- Jazz at the Musikverein (1995)
- André Previn and Friends Play Show Boat (1996)
- Ballads: Solo Jazz Standards (1996)
- We Got Rhythm: A Gershwin Songbook (1997)
- We Got It Good and That Ain't Bad: An Ellington Songbook (1999)
- Live at the Jazz Standard (2000)
- Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano (2007)