Jazz Spectacular is Frankie Laine's fifteenth 12" long-play album, recorded in 1955 and released early in 1956. This is a Frankie Laine theme album, the theme being jazz, recorded with jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton, pianist Sir Charles Thompson, tenor-saxophonist Budd Johnson, trombonist Urbie Green, and guest trombonists J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding.[1]
Billboard magazine commenting on the album stated that Laine cut the tracks while rushing back and forth between his act at New York's Latin Quarter.[2]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
Track listing
| Track | Song title | Composer(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "S'posin'" | Paul Denniker, Andy Razaf |
| 2. | "Stars Fell on Alabama" | Mitchell Parish, Frank Perkins |
| 3. | "Until the Real Thing Comes Along" | Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, L. E. Freeman |
| 4. | "My Old Flame" | Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston |
| 5. | "You Can Depend on Me" | Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines7 |
| 6. | "That Old Feeling" | Lew Brown, Sammy Fain |
| 7. | "Taking a Chance on Love" | Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John Latouche |
| 8. | "If You Were Mine" | Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer |
| 9. | "Baby, Baby All the Time" | Bobby Troup |
| 10. | "Roses of Picardy" | Frederick Weatherly, Haydn Wood |
| 11. | "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" | Cole Porter |
References
- ^ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved December 29, 2018.
- ^ "Billboard". February 25, 1956: 31.