Morton Gould - Blues in the Night (1957) and 44 similar items

Catalog Number: LM-2104 Condition Details: Vinyl plays with occasional light-crackles (play-graded). Cover looks good, a few creases near edges; light scuffing and some discoloration spots (front/back); front has tiny surface abrasions and back has slight discoloration. Inner-sleeve is original (RCA/Victor ads); three seams partially split and top edge has a tear. Spine is easy-to-read with mild wear. Little shelf-wear along bottom-edge, top edge has developing split near center. Minor wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use. Red Seal label. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Blues In The Night Birth Of The Blues Solitude Old Devil Moon Nocturne Limehouse Blues Mood Indigo St. Louis Blues Sophisticated Lady Big City Blues Moonglow Deep Purple About The Record: Blues in the Night, by Morton Gould, are blues compositions, in which musicians of gifts and skills have developed blues themes or suggestions of blues atmosphere into successful songs and instrumental works. The initial blues elements have indicated to Mr. Gould the treatments that you hear in these presentations but the entire composition is involved in the orchestral fantasy that ensues. Some of them are not officially blues, but all have within them an emotion that finds voice in melodie bleue. Six of them were originally instrumental music; two began as unaffiliated songs, two were from revues, one was from a film and one was from a musical play. It may be pertinent to observe that one of the works, the Nocturne, is from Thomas Friselle's Two American Sketches, which won the first prize of $10,000 in a Victor Talking Machine Company competition in 1928.