Skylark (Paul Desmond album)

Skylark is an album by American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond featuring Gábor Szabó recorded in 1973 and released on the CTI label.[1]

Skylark
Studio album by
Paul Desmond
Released1974
RecordedNovember 27-28 and December 4, 1973
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreCool jazz, bossa nova
Length53:28
Reissue with bonus tracks
LabelCTI
CTI 6039
ProducerCreed Taylor
Paul Desmond chronology
Bridge Over Troubled Water
(1969)		 Skylark
(1974)		 Pure Desmond
(1974)

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Paul Desmond injects a bit of the 1970s into his sound, obtaining agreeable if not totally simpatico results... It's a cautious change of pace for Desmond, although the fiercer context into which he was placed doesn't really fire his imagination".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

Track listing
  1. "Take Ten" (Paul Desmond) - 6:08
  2. "Romance de Amor" (Traditional) - 9:40
  3. "Was a Sunny Day" (Paul Simon) - 4:52
  4. "Music for a While" (Henry Purcell) - 6:45
  5. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) - 5:21
  6. "Indian Summer" (Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) - 4:00
  7. "Music for a While" [alternate take] (Purcell) - 5:56 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Skylark" [alternate take] (Carmichael, Mercer) - 5:39 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "Indian Summer" [alternate take] (Dubin, Herbert) - 5:27 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on November 27-28 and December 4, 1973

Personnel

From the original liner notes.[4]

gollark: Please also give me write access to the repo.
gollark: Oh, right, array indexing.
gollark: ```python# parsita-based pseudocode syntax parserfrom stmt import *from parsita import *from parsita.util import constantdef compose(f, g): return lambda x: f(g(x))def map_expr(x): start, end = x if end == "": return start return Op([start, end[1]], end[0])def map_unop_expr(x): return Op(x[1], x[0])def aliases(name, aliases): p = lit(name) for alias in aliases: p |= (lit(alias) > (lambda _: name)) return pclass ExprParser(TextParsers): ε = lit("") IntLit = reg("\-?[0-9]+") > compose(IntLit, int) StrLit = "'" >> reg("[^']*") << "'" > StrLit # TODO escapes (not in "spec" but could be needed) FloatLit = reg("\-?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+") > compose(FloatLit, float) Identifier = reg("[a-zA-Z_]+[a-zA-Z_0-9]*") > Var BracketedExpr = "(" >> Expr << ")" UnaryOperator = lit("NOT") Start = FloatLit | StrLit | IntLit | BracketedExpr | (UnaryOperator & Expr > map_unop_expr) | Identifier # avoid left recursion problems by not doing left recursion # AQA pseudocode does not appear to have a notion of "operator precedence", simplifying parsing logic nicely BinaryOperator = aliases("≤", ["<="]) | aliases("≠", ["!="]) | aliases("≥", [">="]) | lit("DIV") | lit("MOD") | lit("AND") | lit("OR") | reg("[+/*\-=<>]") End = (BinaryOperator & Expr) | ε Expr = (Start & End) > map_exprparse = ExprParser.Expr.parsex = parse("1+2+3 != 6 AND NOT 4 AND x + y")if isinstance(x, Failure): print(x.message)else: print(x.value)```
gollark: <@332271551481118732> Expression parsing is done, I think.
gollark: I wonder if AQA pseudocode *does* have operator precedence. We may need to harvest exam papers.

References
  1. CTI Records discography accessed February 10, 2012
  2. Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed February 10, 2012
  3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2004). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (7th ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 9780141014166.
  4. Skylark (Liner notes). Paul Desmond. New York City: CTI Records. 1974. CTI 6039.CS1 maint: others (link)
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