Two's Company (Joe Albany and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen album) explained

Two's Company
Type:Album
Artist:Joe Albany and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Cover:Two's Company (album).jpg
Released:1974
Recorded:February 17, 1974
Studio:Rosenberg Studie, Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre:Jazz
Length:43:10
Label:SteepleChase
SCS-1019
Producer:Nils Winther
Chronology:Joe Albany
Prev Title:Birdtown Birds
Prev Year:1973
Next Title:Joe Albany & Joe Venuti
Next Year:1974

Two's Company is an album by pianist Joe Albany and bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen recorded in 1974 and released on the SteepleChase label.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars stating "This duet set with bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen finds Albany in particularly good form on six veteran standards ...His lyrical and boppish style was still very much intact and Albany is heard in prime form on the thoughtful yet swinging set".[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz expressed a preference for this album over Birdtown Birds, but wrote that "Albany often sounds less radical than merely clumsy and the solo passages are rife with misfingerings".

Track listing

  1. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 5:29
  2. "What's New?" (Bob Haggart, Jonny Burke) - 9:06
  3. "Lullaby in Rhythm" (Clarence Profit, Edgar Sampson) - 4:47
  4. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) - 6:49
  5. "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) - 7:08
  6. "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 5:45

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Steeplechase_1000.htm SteepleChase Records discography
  2. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 19, 2015