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
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| rev1 = Allmusic
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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
- "There Is No Greater Love" (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) - 7:02
- "All the Way" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 7:53
- "Spiderman Blues" - 4:51
- "The Touch of Your Lips" (Ray Noble) - 6:47
- "What's New?" (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) - 7:48
- "When Love Is New" (Cedar Walton) - 4:35
Personnel
- Woody Shaw - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Cedar Walton - piano
- Buster Williams - bass
- Victor Jones - drums
References
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