Morning (Kenny Drew album)
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Morning is an album by American pianist Kenny Drew
Kenny Drew
Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...

 recorded in 1975 and released on SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...

 in 1976. The album was first issued on CD in 1987 with a slightly different cover. "An Evening in the Park" is about an early spring, peaceful bicycling through Copenhagen's Fælledparken
Fælledparken
The park Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark, was created 1906–1914 by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel in cooperation with the Copenhagen Municipality on the commons previously named Nørrefælled and Østerfælled....

, a park not far from Drew's home back then. "Morning" was originally written for three instruments, but in the studio Pedersen suggested that Drew and Philip Catherine should try it as a duo.

Track listing

All pieces composed by Kenny Drew, unless otherwise noted.
  1. "An Evening in the Park" - 7:27
  2. "Autumn Leaves
    Autumn Leaves (song)
    "Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les Feuilles mortes" with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert. Yves Montand introduced "Les feuilles mortes" in 1946 in the film Les Portes de la Nuit...

    " (Kosma, Mercer, Prevert) - 10:34
  3. "Bossa Mood" - 7:11 - Bonus track on CD
  4. "Poor Brother's Blues" - 9:51 Bonus track on CD
  5. "Morning" - (Per Carstens) - 9:18
  6. "Isn't It Romantic?
    Isn't It Romantic?
    "Isn't It Romantic?" is a popular song and part of the Great American Songbook. The music was composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It has a 32-bar chorus in ABAC form...

    " (Hart, Rodgers) - 8:58

Personnel

  • Kenny Drew
    Kenny Drew
    Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...

     - piano
  • Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - bass
  • Philip Catherine
    Philip Catherine
    Philip Catherine is a Belgian jazz guitarist.-Biography:He was born in London from an English mother and Belgian father....

    - guitar
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