Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Harold Mabern album)

The album was recorded on November 11, 2005, at The Studio in New York.{{Cite AV media notes |title=Somewhere Over the Rainbow |first=Harold |last=Mabern |type=CD liner notes |publisher=Venus Records |id=VHCD-78048 }} It was produced by Tetsuo Hara and Todd Barkan. The performers were Harold Mabern (piano), Dwayne Burno (bass), and Willie Jones III (drums).

All of the compositions are by Harold Arlen. Mabern commented that, "I've always studied him because his music is very bluesy. And you don't really have to do anything to his music but just go ahead and play it."{{cite web |last=Holmes |first=Terrell Kent |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/harold-mabern-blessed-harold-mabern-by-terrell-kent-holmes.php |title= Harold Mabern: Blessed |publisher=All About Jazz |date= December 21, 2006 |accessdate=December 29, 2017 }} Jones uses brushes on most of the tracks. "A Sleeping Bee" gets a "gospel-inflected soul-jazz treatment". "This Time the Dream's on Me" has "a hip Latin vamp to introduce a soul-jazz-infused arrangement". Mabern's arrangement of "Savannah" begins as a calypso and then shifts into hard bop. Somewhere Over the Rainbow was released by Venus Records.

1. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
2. "A Sleeping Bee"
3. "Blues in the Night"
4. "Out of This World"
5. "Savanna"
6. "Hooray for Love"
7. "Stormy Weather"
8. "I've Got the World on a String"
9. "Man That Got Away"
10. "This Time The Dream's on Me"

• Harold Mabern – piano
• Dwayne Burno – bass
• Willie Jones III – drums

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