''Sinatra And Swingin' Brass'' is the twenty-sixth studio album by American singer

Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most I ...

. Released in 1962, it is Sinatra's fifth album released by

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. This is the first time Sinatra worked with arranger/composer

Neal Hefti Neal Paul Hefti (October 29, 1922 – October 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. He wrote music for '' The Odd Couple'' movie and TV series and for the ''Batman'' TV series. He began arranging professionally in hi ...

on an album project, following a single-only session that took place in April 1962. For ''Sinatra and Swingin' Brass'', the singer re-recorded a number of songs he had previously recorded for Capitol. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and "I Get a Kick Out of You" had been recorded eight years earlier for '' Songs for Young Lovers'', "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" had been recorded six years prior for '' Songs for Swingin' Lovers'', and " At Long Last Love" had been recorded five years earlier for '' A Swingin' Affair!''.

Track listing

The last three songs are not available on the 1998 Entertainer of the Century

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series.

Complete personnel

- vocals *

- arranger, conductor Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12: 11-April-1962 (Wednesday) - Hollywood. United Recording. 8:00 to 11:30 P.M. Al Porcino, Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Gerald Wilson (tpt); Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino, Lew McCreary (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Joe Maini, Harry Klee, Ben Webster, Plas Johnson, Chuck Gentry (sax/ wwd); Bill Miller (p);

Al Viola Alfred Viola (June 16, 1919 – February 21, 2007) was an American jazz guitarist who worked with Frank Sinatra for 25 years. He played the mandolin on the soundtrack of the film ''The Godfather''. Biography Viola grew up in an Italian famil ...

(g); Al McKibbon (b);

Earl Palmer Earl Cyril Palmer (October 25, 1924 – September 19, 2008) was an American drummer. Considered one of the inventors of rock and roll, he is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Palmer was one of the most prolific studio musicians of al ...

(d); Neal Hefti (arr). Tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11: 10-April-1962 (Tuesday) - Hollywood. United Recording. 8:00 to 11:30 P.M. Al Porcino, Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Don Fagerquist, Gerald Wilson (tpt); Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino, Lew McCreary (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Joe Maini, Harry Klee, Ben Webster, Plas Johnson, Chuck Gentry (sax/wwd); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Al McKibbon (b); Earl Palmer (d); Neal Hefti (arr). Tracks 13, 14: 27/28-February-1962 (Tue/Wed) - Hollywood. United Recording. 11 P.M. to 1 A.M. Al Porcino, Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, Stu Williamson (tpt); Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Rosolino (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Joe Maini, Harry Klee, Bill Perkins, Buddy Collette, Jack Nimitz (sax); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Al McKibbon (b); Earl Palmer (d); Neal Hefti, Skippy Martin (arr). Track 15: 21-February-1963 (Thursday) - Hollywood. Goldwyn Studios. 9 P.M. to 12 M. Cappy Lewis, Uan Rasey, Mannie Klein, Shorty Sherock (tpt); Dick Noel, Tom Shepard, Vernon Friley (tbn); George Roberts (b-tbn); Vincent DeRosa, John Cave, Richard Perissi, William Hinshaw (fr-h); Harry Klee (sax/fl); Arthur Gleghorn (fl); William Kosinski, Gordon Schoneberg (oboe); Hugo Raimondi (sax/cit); Mitchell Lurie (cit); Charles Butler (b-clt); Chuck Gentry (sax/b-clt); Donald Christlieb, Lloyd Hildebrand (bsn); Justin Gordon, Plas Johnson (sax); Erno Neufeld, Marshall Sosson, Israel Baker, Joachim Chassman, Gerald Vinci, Nathan Ross, Alex Beller, Victor Bay, Anatol Kaminsky, Arnold Belnick, Paul Shure, Joe Stepansky, Victor Arno, James Getzoff, Davida Jackson, Lennie Malarsky (vln); Paul Robyn, Stanley Harris, Allan Harshman, Alvin Dinkin, Virginia Majewski, Alex Neiman (via); Ray Kramer, Justin DiTullio, David Pratt, Armand Kaproff, Margareth Aue, Edgar Lustgarten, Eleanor Slatkin (vie); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Al Viola (g); Eddie Gilbert (tuba/b); Mike Rubin, Peter Mercurio (b);

Mel Lewis Melvin Sokoloff (May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990), known professionally as Mel Lewis, was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author. He received fourteen Grammy Award nominations. Biography Early years Lewis was ...

(d); Frank Flynn (cym/mallets);

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(tymp); Nelson Riddle (arr).

Charts

References

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