Double Play!
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| Studio album by Russ Freeman and André Previn | ||||
| Released | 1957 February 2, 1993 (CD release) |
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| Recorded | April 30, 1957 and May 11, 1957 Contemporary's Studio, Los Angeles |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 41:50 | |||
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Contemporary C 3537 |
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| Producer | Lester Koenig | |||
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Double Play! is a 1957 jazz album featuring pianists Russ Freeman and André Previn.
It was recorded and released in 1957 on Contemporary Records, and re-released and remastered in 1993 on Original Jazz Classics.
Together with drummer Shelly Manne, the album, as its title suggests, includes eight baseball-themed original compositions by Freeman and Previn along with the standard Take Me Out to the Ball Game. (The rather risque-by-1950s-standards album cover features a model wearing a Hollywood Stars cap.) It is notable for the unusual two-piano instrumentation, and indeed was advertised at the time as the first time that two pianists recorded "modern jazz" together.
Track 1-5 recorded on April 30, 1957; tracks 6-9 on May 11, 1957
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