Guitar Moods

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 Mundell Lowe
Released	1956
Recorded	February 20 and March 2, 1956
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre	Jazz
Length	33:08
Label	Riverside
Producer	Orrin Keepnews
Mundell Lowe chronology
The Mundell Lowe Quartet (1955) Guitar Moods (1956) New Music of Alec Wilder (1956)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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

• Mundell Lowe - guitar
• Al Klink - bass clarinet, flute (tracks 1, 2, 5, 8, 9 & 11)
• Phil Bodner - oboe, English horn (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 10 & 12)
• Trigger Alpert - bass
• Ed Shaughnessy - drums

References

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