Dream Dancing (Jimmy Knepper album)
{{About|the 1986 Jimmy Knepper album|other uses|Dream Dancing (disambiguation){{!}}Dream Dancing}}
{{Infobox album
| name = Dream Dancing
| type = Album
| artist = Jimmy Knepper Quintet
| cover = Dream Dancing (Jimmy Knepper album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 1986
| recorded = April 3, 1986
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
| genre = Jazz
| length = 59:38
| label = Criss Cross Jazz
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| producer = Gerry Teekens
| chronology = Jimmy Knepper
| prev_title = I Dream Too Much
| prev_year = 1984
| next_title = T-Bop
| next_year = 1991
}}
Dream Dancing is an album led by trombonist Jimmy Knepper which was recorded in 1986 and released on the Criss Cross Jazz label.Fitzgerald, M. [http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/KnepperJimmy-ldr.php Jimmy Knepper Leader Entry] accessed April 7, 2017[https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1024.html CrisS Cross Jazz: album details] accessed April 7, 2017
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=831}}
}}
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The music is essentially straight-ahead hard bop, but Knepper's continually surprising solos uplift the music".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000236189 |title=Dream Dancing – Review |accessdate=April 7, 2017}}
Track listing
All compositions by Jimmy Knepper except where noted.
- "Dream Dancing" (Cole Porter) – 7:04
- "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) – 6:25
- "All Through the Night" (Porter) – 5:22
- "In the Interim" – 6:43
- "Of Things Past" – 6:34
- "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 7:16
- "In the Interim" [take 3] – 5:58 Bonus track on CD
- "Dream Dancing" [take 1] (Porter) – 7:14 Bonus track on CD
- "Night Vision" – 6:57 Bonus track on CD
Personnel
- Jimmy Knepper – trombone
- Ralph Moore – tenor saxophone
- Dick Katz – piano
- George Mraz – bass
- Mel Lewis – drums