Moon Faced and Starry Eyed
1959 studio album by Max Roach 4
| Moon Faced and Starry Eyed | ||||
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| Studio album by Max Roach + 4 | ||||
| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | October 9–10, 1959 | |||
| Studio | Universal Recorders, Chicago | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 33:36 | |||
| Label | Mercury MG 20491 | |||
| Producer | Hal Mooney | |||
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Moon Faced and Starry Eyed is an album by American jazz drummer Max Roach, featuring vocalist Abbey Lincoln on two tracks, recorded in 1959 and released on the Mercury label.[2]
Track listing
- "You're Mine, You" (Edward Heyman, Johnny Green) – 2:46
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen) – 3:18
- "Wild Is the Wind" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington) – 3:17
- "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 2:50
- "I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter) – 4:51
- "Moon Faced, Starry Eyed" (Weill, Langston Hughes) – 2:55
- "Never Let Me Go" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans) – 3:04
- "Namely You" (Gene de Paul, Mercer) – 2:48
- "Never Leave Me" (Gordon Jenkins) – 5:44
Personnel
- Max Roach – drums
- Tommy Turrentine – trumpet (tracks 2, 5 & 9)
- Julian Priester – trombone (tracks 3, 5, 7 & 9)
- Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 5, 8 & 9)
- Ray Bryant – piano
- Bob Boswell – bass
- Abbey Lincoln – vocals (tracks 5 & 9)
References
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- The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)
- Max Roach + 4 (1956)
- Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57)
- The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58)
- Award-Winning Drummer (1958)
- Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)
- MAX (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)
- Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)
- Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958)
- Deeds, Not Words (1958)
- Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959)
- Quiet as It's Kept (1959)
- Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959)
- The Many Sides of Max (1959)
- Long as You're Living (1960)
- Parisian Sketches (1960)
- We Insist! (1960)
- Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
- It's Time (1962)
- Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962)
- Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)
- The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964)
- Drums Unlimited (1965)
- Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)
- Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971)
- Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973)
- Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978)
- Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979)
- M'Boom (1979)
- One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979)
- Pictures in a Frame (1979)
- The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979)
- In the Light (1982)
- Live at Vielharmonie (1983)
- Collage (M'Boom, 1984)
- It's Christmas Again (1984)
- Scott Free (1984)
- Survivors (1984)
- Easy Winners (1985)
- Bright Moments (1986)
- Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989)
- To the Max! (1990–91)
- Best Coast Jazz (1954)
- Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)
- Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55)
- Daahoud (1954)
- Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954)
- Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)
- Study in Brown (1955)
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)
- Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)
