Setting Standards

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{{Infobox album

| name = Setting Standards

| type = Studio

| artist = Woody Shaw

| cover = Setting Standards.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1984

| recorded = December 1, 1983
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = 38:56

| label = Muse
MR 5318

| producer = Michael Cuscuna

| chronology = Woody Shaw

| prev_title = The Time Is Right

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = Woody Shaw with the Tone Jansa Quartet

| next_year = 1985

}}

Setting Standards is an album led by trumpeter Woody Shaw which was recorded in 1983 and released on the Muse label.[http://72.167.215.13/discography/ Woody Shaw discography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017063610/http://72.167.215.13/discography/ |date=2013-10-17 }} accessed August 20, 2013[http://www.jazzdisco.org/woody-shaw/catalog/#muse-mr-5318 Woody Shaw catalog] accessed August 26, 2013 Setting Standards was released as part of Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions by Mosaic Records in 2013.

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}

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Scott Yanow of Allmusic stated, "This Muse release finds the brilliant trumpeter Woody Shaw in fine form... The music is reasonably accessible and swinging yet imaginative in a subtle way. Recommended".Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/setting-standards-mw0000603676 Allmusic Review], accessed August 20, 2013

Track listing

All compositions by Woody Shaw except as indicated

  1. "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 7:02
  2. "All the Way" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:53
  3. "Spiderman Blues" - 4:51
  4. "The Touch of Your Lips" (Ray Noble) - 6:47
  5. "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 7:48
  6. "When Love Is New" (Cedar Walton) - 4:35

Personnel

References