| Double Play! | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Russ Freeman and André Previn |
| Cover: | Doubleplay_cdcover.PNG |
| Released: | 1957 |
| Recorded: | April 30 and May 11, 1957 |
| Studio: | Contemporary's Studio, Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 41:50 |
| Label: | Contemporary |
| Producer: | Lester Koenig |
| Chronology: | André Previn |
| Prev Title: | My Fair Lady |
| Prev Year: | 1956 |
| Next Title: | Pal Joey |
| Next Year: | 1957 |
Double Play! is a 1957 jazz album featuring pianists Russ Freeman and André Previn.[1]
It was recorded and released in 1957 on the Contemporary label, and re-released in 1993 in the Original Jazz Classics series.
Together with drummer Shelly Manne, the album, as its title suggests, includes eight baseball-themed original compositions by Freeman and Previn along with the standard "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". (The rather risque-by-1950s-standards album cover features a model wearing a Hollywood Stars cap.) The album was advertised at the time as the first time that two pianists recorded "modern jazz" together.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz suggested that the album was the best of Previn's early releases, being "the most uncomplicatedly jazz-driven".
Track 1-5 recorded on April 30, 1957; tracks 6-9 on May 11, 1957