Album · 2021
Tracklist
1-1 Falling In Love With Love
1-2 Atlantic Ones (Originally Known As “Blue Is”)
1-3 Yesterdays
1-4 Cherokee
1-5 Body And Soul
1-6 Off Minor
1-7 Off My Back Jack
1-8 They Say It’s Wonderful
1-9 On Green Dolphin Street
1-10 How Deep Is The Ocean
1-11 Arabic Song
2-1 True Train (Part I)
2-2 True Train (Part 2)
2-3 Lover
2-4 Sweet And Lovely
2-5 Mean To Me
2-6 After You’ve Gone
2-7 It Could Happen To You
2-8 Untitled Ballad
2-9 Extemporaneous Prose-Poem
2-10 Bésame Mucho
Line-up/Musicians
Piano, Voice – Hasaan Ibn Ali
About this release
Omnivore Recordings – OVCD-440 (US)
1-1, 2-3, 2-7 and 2-10 recorded by Alan Sukoenig, Oct. 25, 1964 in a lounge of Women's Dormitory, now Hill College House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; piano: Baldwin baby grand
1-2 to 1-4, 1-10, 2-4 to 2-6 recorded by David Shrier, June 20, 1962 in a lounge of Women's Dormitory, now Hill College House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; piano: Baldwin baby grand
1-5 to 1-7, 1-9 recorded by Alan Sukoenig, October 25, 1964 in Houston Hall Lounge, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; piano: Steinway grand
1-8 from a demo tape Hasaan gave to David Shrier, recording date ca. 1962
1-11, 2-9 recorded by Alan Sukoenig, Oct. 25, 1964 in Dave Shrier's apartment on Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA
2-1, 2-2, 2-8 recorded by Alan Sukoenig, on a Sunday in January 1965, at 936 or 930 West End Avenue, New York, NY; piano: a spinet, maker unknown
Original tapes provided courtesy of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University Libraries, Newark, NJ
All tracks previously unissued
Thanks to snobb for the addition and js for the updates
