Guitar Moods is an album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe featuring tracks recorded in 1956 for the Riverside label.[1]

Guitar Moods
Studio album by
Released1956
RecordedFebruary 20 and March 2, 1956
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length33:08
LabelRiverside
ProducerOrrin Keepnews
Mundell Lowe chronology
The Mundell Lowe Quartet
(1955)
Guitar Moods
(1956)
New Music of Alec Wilder
(1956)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic     [2]

Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars with Scott Yanow calling it "quite memorable. Guitar Moods, which lives up to its name, is recommended".[2]

Track listing

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  1. "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) - 2:38
  2. "We'll Be Together Again" (Carl Fischer, Frankie Laine) - 2:07
  3. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) - 3:48
  4. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 3:02
  5. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 3:08
  6. "I Dream Too Much" (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) - 2:18
  7. "June in January" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 2:54
  8. "I'll Take Romance" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Ben Oakland) - 1:53
  9. "It's So Peaceful in the Country" (Alec Wilder) - 4:11
  10. "Our Waltz" (David Rose) - 1:54
  11. "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) - 2:09
  12. "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 3:06
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on February 20 (tracks 1, 2, 5, 8, 9 & 11) and March 2 (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 & 12), 1956

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Riverside Records discography accessed August 21, 2012
  2. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed August 21, 2012