First Place Again

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{{Infobox album

| name = First Place Again

| type = Album

| artist = Paul Desmond

| cover = First_Place_Again.jpg

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| released = 1959

| recorded = September 5–7, 1959
New York City

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| genre = Jazz

| length = 45:58

| label = Warner Bros. W 1356

| producer = Bob Prince

| chronology = Paul Desmond

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Desmond Blue

| next_year = 1962

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First Place Again is the second album led by American jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond. The album was recorded in September 1959 and released on the Warner Bros. label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/paul-desmond/catalog/#warner-bros-w-1356 Paul Desmond Catalog] accessed February 29, 2016[http://www.puredesmond.ca/des50b.htm Paul Desmond Discography Part Two: 1950-1959] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311043633/http://www.puredesmond.ca/des50b.htm |date=2015-03-11 }} accessed February 29, 2016Berry, S. [http://www.stevencberry.net/jimhall.html Jim Hall discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064447/http://www.stevencberry.net/jimhall.html |date=2016-03-04 }} accessed February 29, 2016 It was the first of five studio albums Desmond recorded with quartets that included guitarist Jim Hall and drummer Connie Kay. Percy Heath, who was Kay's bandmate from the Modern Jazz Quartet, completed the quartet for this album. For most of August 1959, Hall, Heath, and Kay had been faculty members at the Lenox School of Jazz music workshop. During that same month, Desmond finished recording Time Out with the Dave Brubeck Quartet.