Selections from Lerner and Loewe's...
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{{Infobox album
| name = Selections from Lerner and Loewe's...
| type = Studio
| artist = Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
| cover = Selections from Lerner and Loewe's.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1957
| recorded = March 13, 1957
Webster Hall, New York City
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| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Vik
LX 1103
| producer = Bob Rolontz
| prev_title = A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers
| prev_year = 1957
| next_title = Cu-Bop
| next_year = 1957
}}
Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... is an album by drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded in 1957 and released on the RCA Victor subsidiary label Vik.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/art-blakey/catalog/album-index/#vik-lak-1103 Art Blakey discography] accessed June 4, 2013[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Blakey/chron.htm Art Blakey chronology] accessed June 4, 2013[http://www.excitingsounds.com/rca-vik/ RCA Vik Record Label Discography], accessed November 30, 2015 The album features the band's jazz interpretations of show tunes from Lerner and Loewe's musicals My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Paint Your Wagon.
Reception
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AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, the review by Scott Yanow stating: "One of the rarest of all Art Blakey records... Despite some of the musicians' unfamiliarity with the songs, this date is quite successful".Yanow, Scott, [http://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-messengers-play-lerner-and-loewe-mw0000864993 Allmusic Review], accessed June 4, 2013.
Track listing
All compositions by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
- "I Could Have Danced All Night" - 4:16
- "On the Street Where You Live" - 9:02
- "There But for You Go I" - 4:34
- "They Call the Wind Maria" - 4:56
- "I Talk to the Trees" - 8:58
- "Almost Like Being in Love" - 4:50