Houston Person
Songs List
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Santa Baby
- 2.Our First Christmas
- 3.A Christmas Love Song
- 4.Blue Christmas
- 5.It's Christmas Time Baby
- 6.Medley: I'll Be Home for Christmas / You're All I Want for Christmas: I'll Be Home For Christmas / You're All I Want For Christmas
- 7.Jingle Bells
- 8.God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- 9.Merry Christmas, Baby
- 10.What Are You Going to Do New Year's Eve?
- 11.Happy Hanukah My Friend
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Come Rain or Come Shine
- 2.132nd and Madison
- 3.Everything Must Change
- 4.Learnin' the Blues
- 5.I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
- 6.Soupbone
- 7.Never Let Me Go
- 8.Our Day Will Come
- 9.Danny Boy
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Bye Bye Blackbird
- 2.But Beautiful
- 3.Young and Foolish
- 4.Fools Rush In
- 5.Can't We Be Friends?
- 6.Blame It on My Youth
- 7.I Did Not Know What Time It Was
- 8.I Can't Get Started
- 9.Blue Monk
- 10.When I Fall in Love
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.At Long Last Love
- 2.Again
- 3.Moon River
- 4.Put Your Head on My Shoulder
- 5.Why Did I Choose You
- 6.Nothing Ever Changes My Love for You
- 7.My Romance
- 8.I'll Let You Know
- 9.Please Send Me Someone to Love
- 10.Reminiscing at Rudy's
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 2.Blue and Sentimental
- 3.Pennies from Heaven
- 4.Night Train
- 5.I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
- 6.The Breeze and I
- 7.Little Girl Blue
- 1.Twisted
JazzTimes: "...Consummately heartfelt and eminently hip....His confident fluency is evident throughout a roster of standards....Dim the lights and set this one on repeat mode."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Here's That Rainy Day
- 2.I Only Have Eyes for You
- 3.It Might as Well Be Spring
- 4.Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
- 5.At Last
- 6.The Night We Called It a Day
- 7.It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream
- 8.I'll Be Around
- 9.Hey There
- 10.If
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 3.I Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry
- 4.I'm Just a Lucky So and So
- 5.Who Can I Turn To
- 6.Day by Day
- 7.Alone with Just My Dreams
- 8.Song for a Rainbow
- 9.I Want to Talk About You
- 10.Next Time You See Me
- 1.Willow Weep for Me
- 2.Wonder Why
JazzTimes: "Person is restrained throughout, even when the tempo moves beyond a ballad pace, and Charlap is the ideal, ever sensitive accompanist."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.You Taught My Heart To Sing
- 2.Namely You
- 3.Where Are You
- 4.Sweet Lorraine
- 5.If I Ruled The World
- 6.S'Wonderful
- 7.Where Is The Love
- 8.I Was Telling Her About You
- 9.Don't Forget The Blues
- 10.I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Sweet Sucker
- 2.Let's Stay Together
- 3.Can't Help Lovin' That Man
- 4.What's Going On?
- 5.When A Man Loves A Woman
- 6.Blue Spring
- 7.Song For A Rainbow
- 8.Shenandoah
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Sweet Sucker
- 2.Only Trust Your Heart
- 3.Easy Walker
- 4.The Way We Were
- 5.Lester Leaps In
- 6.Since I Fell for You
- 7.Sunny
- 8.Jean-Jaures Shuffle
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.I Like To Live the Love
- 2.What It is
- 3.Shotgun
- 4.Mayola
- 5.Gold In My Ear
- 6.500 Gin Rummy
- 7.Funky Sunday Afternoon
- 8.A Touch of Bad Stuff
- 9.All In Love is Fair
- 10.He'll Fight My Battles - (featuring Etta Jones)
- 11.Disco Sax
- 12.Soul Samba
- 13.Ain't Nothing But a Funky Song
- 14.My Way
- 15.For the Love of You
- 16.Forever In Love
- 17.Spread It
- 18.How Vicious
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Why Not
- 2.All Soul
- 3.Bossa For Baby
- 4.Wonderland
- 5.Let It Be Me
- 6.So What
- 7.Time Stood Still
- 8.Two RBs
- 9.Please Give Me Someone To Love
- 10.Put It Right There
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.You Do Something to Me
- 2.I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance
- 3.You're a Sweetheart
- 4.Maybe You'll Be There
- 5.All the Things You Are
- 6.You're My Everything
- 7.Skylark
- 8.I Only Have Eyes for You
- 9.Everything I Have Is Yours
- 10.Wonder Why
- Tracks of Disc 2
- 1.Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me
- 2.Here's That Rainy Day
- 3.Isn't It Romantic?
- 4.Fools Rush In
- 5.It Had to Be You
- 6.But Beautiful
- 7.For All We Know
- 8.Blue Moon
- 9.Bewitched
- 10.Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Tracks of Disc 3
- 1.Sentimental Journey
- 2.Where Are You?
- 3.There's a Small Hotel
- 4.Tenderly
- 5.Be My Love
- 6.It Might as Well Be Spring
- 7.My Funny Valentine
- 8.Gentle Rain
- 9.Mack the Knife
- 10.The Very Thought of You
JazzTimes: "...It's an increasingly rare pleasure to hear a sensitive player like Houston Person pay respect to great melodies, rendering them essentially as written..."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Sentimental Journey
- 2.A Sunday Kind of Love
- 3.It Had to Be You
- 4.Fools Rush In
- 5.Black Velvet
- 6.Save Your Love for Me
- 7.What'll I Do?
- 8.I Love You Yes I Do
- 9.Canadian Sunset
JazzTimes: "...24-carat jazz all the way. Pop this into your player and cuddle up with your baby. S/he'll thank you for it."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.But Beautiful
- 2.Blue Moon
- 3.Laura
- 4.The Very Thought of You
- 5.Mean to Me
- 6.My Romance
- 7.Stairway to the Stars
- 8.Love Is Here to Stay
- 9.Time After Time
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.The Second Time Around
- 2.Crazy He Calls Me
- 3.I'm Afraid the Masquerade is Over
- 4.The Way We Were
- 5.Guilty
- 6.Change Partners
- 7.Teardrops From My Eyes
- 8.Something Personal
- 9.On The Sunny Side of the Street
- 10.I Remember Clifford
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- 2.Tenderly
- 3.Skylark
- 4.You Don't Know What Love Is
- 5.Way We Were, The (To Chicago, IL and Brooklyn, NY)
- 6.My Funny Valentine
- 7.All the Things You Are
- 8.Good Morning Heartache
- 9.Without a Song
- 10.In a Sentimental Mood
- 11.Embraceable You
- 12.'Deed I Do
Down Beat: 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Carter and Person have recorded in this context several times. The bassist seems to relish such a duo, as the tenor saxophonist has anchored timing and billowing bottom end."
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.How Deep Is The Ocean
- 2.You've Changed
- 3.Blueberry Hill
- 4.Darn That Dream
- 5.Meditation
- 6.Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)
- 7.Lover Come Back To Me
- 8.Polka Dots And Moonbeams
- 9.Always
- 10.Alone Together
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Love Is Here to Stay
- 2.My One and Only Love
- 3.Why Not
- 4.Day Dream
- 5.Gentle Rain
- 6.The Way You Look Tonight
- 7.You Are My Sunshine
- 8.Blues for DP
- 9.Easy to Remember
- 10.Without a Song
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.My Funny Valentine
- 2.Gone Again
- 3.You're Nearer
- 4.Minton's
- 5.Bewitched
- 6.Only Trust Your Heart
- 7.They All Laughed
- 8.Try a Little Tenderness
- 9.The Song Has Ended
- 10.You Can't Lose With the Blues
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 3.I Wished on t Moon
- 4.Kiss and Run
- 5.So Nice
- 6.I've Grown Acstomed to Her Face
- 7.Close to You
- 8.Star Eyes
- 9.Minor Inconveence
- 10.Easy Living
- 11.Everything I ve
- 12.Stephen Sondhm Medley: Small World / Anyone Can Whistle
- 1.Blues Everywhe
- 2.All Too Soon
- Tracks of Disc 1
- 1.Nemo
- 2.Let Me Be The One
- 3.Don't Misunderstand
- 4.St. Thomas (Take 1)
- 5.Theme From Baxter
- 6.With You
- 7.Montuno Merengue
- 8.Waking Up Alone
- 9.St. Thomas (Take 2)
- MatchHouston Person
- 100%Scott Hamilton
- 94%Harry Allen
- 85%Eric Alexander
- 72%Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis
- 69%Coleman Hawkins
- 67%Ben Webster
- 57%Gene Ammons
- 56%Nicki Parrott
- 56%Red Garland
- 55%Sonny Stitt
- 53%Stanley Turrentine
- 51%Kenny Burrell
- 48%Dexter Gordon
- 48%Ike Quebec
- 47%Sonny Clark