Please Send Me Someone to Love (album)

Summary

Please Send Me Someone to Love is an album by American jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. recorded in 1969 and released on the Contemporary label.[1] The album was recorded at the same sessions that produced Harlem Blues.

Please Send Me Someone to Love
Studio album by
Released1969
RecordedFebruary 12 & 13, 1969
Contemporary Records Studio, Hollywood, CA
GenreJazz
Length41:50
LabelContemporary S7622
ProducerLester Koenig
Phineas Newborn Jr. chronology
The Newborn Touch
(1964)
Please Send Me Someone to Love
(1969)
Harlem Blues
(1969)

Reception edit

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The emphasis generally is on vintage tunes, and Newborn shows throughout that he was still very much in his musical prime".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide     [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [4]

Track listing edit

  1. "Please Send Me Someone to Love" (Percy Mayfield) – 5:05
  2. "Rough Ridin'" (Ella Fitzgerald, Hank Jones, Bill Tennyson) – 4:09
  3. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 4:52
  4. "Brentwood Blues" (Phineas Newborn Jr.) – 8:01
  5. "He's a Real Gone Guy" (Nellie Lutcher) – 4:39
  6. "Black Coffee" (Sonny Burke, Paul Francis Webster) – 7:03
  7. "Little Niles" (Randy Weston) – 4:20
  8. "Stay on It" (Count Basie, Tadd Dameron) – 5:05

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Phineas Newborn Jr. discography, accessed May 7, 2015
  2. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Please Send Me Someone to Love – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 7, 2015.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 152. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1072. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.