''A Grand Night for Swinging'' is an album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe featuring tracks recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.Riverside Records discography
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Reception

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awarded the album 4 stars stating "''A Grand Night for Swinging'' will be a real treat for fans unfamiliar with Lowe's earlier work, and a satisfying selection for fans of good jazz guitar".Lankford Jr., R. D
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Track listing

# "It's a Grand Night for Swinging" (Billy Taylor) - 4:22 # "Blues Before Freud" (Mundell Lowe) - 7:18 # " Easy to Love" ( Cole Porter) - 7:19 # " It Could Happen to You" ( Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 2:53 # " Love Me or Leave Me" (

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, Joseph Meyer) - 6:52 *Recorded at Reeves Sound Studios in New York City on March 7 (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 7) April 10 (tracks 2, 5 & 6), 1957

Personnel

* Mundell Lowe -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

Billy Taylor Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the a ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

*Les Grinage - bass *

Ed Thigpen Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with the Oscar Peterson trio from 1959 to 1965. Thigpen also performed with the Billy Taylor trio from 1956 to 1959. Biograp ...

- drums *

Gene Quill Daniel Eugene Quill (December 15, 1927 – December 8, 1988) was an American jazz alto saxophonist who played often with Phil Woods in the duet Phil and Quill. Quill also worked as a sideman for Buddy DeFranco, Quincy Jones, Gene Krupa, Gerry M ...

- alto saxophone (tracks 2, 5 & 6)

References

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