Just Friends (Joe Temperley and Jimmy Knepper album) explained

Just Friends
Type:	Album
Artist:	Joe Temperley and Jimmy Knepper
Cover:	Just Friends (album).jpg
Released:	1979
Recorded:	October 20, 1978
Studio:	Mastertone Studio, NYC
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Hep Hep 2003
Producer:	Alastair Robertson
Chronology:	Joe Temperley
Next Title:	Nightingale
Next Year:	1991

Just Friends is an album led by saxophonist Joe Temperley and trombonist Jimmy Knepper which was recorded in 1978 and originally released on the Scottish Hep label.^[1] The album was rereleased on CD in 1994 along with Primrose Path as Special Relationship.

Track listing

1. "John's Bunch" (John Bunch) – 4:55
2. "Stella By Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:45
3. "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 4:25
4. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 3;50
5. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 6:15
6. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 6:10
7. "Aristocracy (of Jean Lafitte)" (Duke Ellington) – 5:22
8. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington) – 4:25
9. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) – 5:08

Personnel

• Joe Temperley – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Jimmy Knepper – trombone
• Derek Smith – piano
• Michael Moore – bass
• Billy Hart – drums

Notes and References

1. Fitzgerald, M. Jimmy Knepper Leader Entry accessed April 7, 2017