Andre Previn - Uptown (1990) 320 kbps

Tracklist

01. Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
02. A Sleepin' Bee
03. Come Rain Or Come Shine
04. Stormy Weather
05. Over The rainbow
06. Let's Fall In Love
07. Day Dream / Prelude To A Kiss
08. Good Queen Bess
09. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
10. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
11. Five O' Clock Whistle
12. Come Sunday
13. C Jam Blues


This was Andre Previn's second album after his long, symphonically enforced absence from jazz, and it sounds noticeably more fluid and relaxed than his first. No longer apprehensive about dusting off his old skills, Previn is delightfully confident and breezy (dig his sly turns on "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "C Jam Blues"), taking some chances as he re-phrases and paraphrases a collection of revivified standards, mostly Harold Arlen and assorted Duke Ellington. Even if Previn, that noted wit, sometimes sounds as if he is kidding the pants off these old tunes, it's great to hear him having such a good time playing jazz again. Mundell Lowe is Previn's new guitar partner, and Ray Brown returns on bass; both are right at home in this refined brand of chamber jazz grooving. Adding to the CD's appeal are some marvelously (and typically) graceful liner notes by Mel Powell, an old pal of Previn's and a lively fellow defector from the jazz piano ranks to the classical world.