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| Paul Desmond Essentials | Lyrics | Save | Buy |
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| 1 Catavento |  |
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| 2 Embarcadero | |
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| 3 Everything Happens to Me | |
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| 4 Samba de Orfeu | |
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| 5 The Night Has a Thousand Eyes | |
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Paul Desmond Plays "Autumn Leaves"
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“Autumn Leaves” meets Detective Phillip Marlowe! The chart is very darkly written by Bob Prince. The dark setting befits the mournful words with a vulnerable performance by Paul Desmond with misty strings in the background. This particular track was never on the original album release and had to wait for nearly thirty years before being released.
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Paul Desmond Plays "Samba Cantina"
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After a brief intro by Jim Hall on guitar, we hear a desolate samba written and played by Paul Desmond with solid rhythm patterns by drummer Connie Kay and bassist Gene Wright (Desmond’s bandmate in the original Dave Brubeck Quartet). Jim Hall also gets to show us why he is such a special performer in one of his classic performances.
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Paul Desmond Plays "Like Someone In Love"
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And that’s what you get with this highly upbeat rendition as arranged by Bob Prince and played by an airy sun-filled solo by Paul Desmond with Milt Hinton on bass.
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Paul Desmond Plays "My Funny Valentine"
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Call him Mr. Cool! Paul Desmond was perhaps one of the greatest jazz artists playing the alto sax with his dry witty style. The thing which makes Desmond so special is that he is always right on the money with his conceptions. This is everywhere evident in this arrangement of “My Funny Valentine” which is wittily scored by Bob Prince for an Elizabethan style writing for woodwinds which leads i
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