All Smiles (Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band album)

All Smiles is an album by the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band featuring performances recorded in Germany in 1968 and released on the MPS label.^[1]^[2]^[3] The album was also released in the US on Prestige Records as Let's Face the Music.^[4]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[6]

The AllMusic review says "One of the qualities that set apart this aggregation from others of the same mettle was the smoothness of the playing. Smoothness here means sensuous and bluesy, not lifeless in the sense the term is used in contemporary jazz. There's a bounce to the up-tempo tunes, but the ostentatious playing other bands were noted for is shunned. A fine performance".^[5]

Track listing

"Let's Face the Music and Dance" (Irving Berlin) – 3:23
"I'm All Smiles" (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 3:25
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) – 3:03
"I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira) – 3:29
"Get Out of Town" (Cole Porter) – 4:47
"By Strauss" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:35
"When Your Lover Has Gone" (Einar Aaron Swan) – 4:16
"Gloria's Theme (from "Butterfield Eight")" (Bronisław Kaper, David Mack) – 4:21
"Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) – 3:36
"High School Cadets" (John Philip Sousa) – 2:05

Personnel

Kenny Clarke – drums
Francy Boland – piano, arranger
Benny Bailey, Jimmy Deuchar, Sonny Grey, Idrees Sulieman – trumpet
Nat Peck, Åke Persson, Eric van Lier – trombone
Derek Humble – alto saxophone
Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, Tony Coe – tenor saxophone
Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone, flute
Jimmy Woode – bass
Dave Pike – vibraphone
Kenny Clare – drums

References

^ Payne, D., The Clarke-Boland Big Band discography accessed October 14, 2015
^ SABA/MPS Records listing, accessed October 14, 2015
^ Bigband Paradise album entry Archived 2016-10-08 at the Wayback Machine accessed September 20, 2016
^ Prestige Records Catalog: 7600 series, accessed October 14, 2015
^ ^a ^b Nathan, Dave. Let's Face the Music – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

v t e Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
Kenny Clarke Johnny Griffin Muvaffak "Maffy" Falay Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Ronnie Scott Carl Drewo Tony Coe Derek Humble Nat Peck Åke Persson Duško Gojković Stan Sulzmann Ack van Rooyen John Surman Jimmy Deuchar Manfred Schoof Albert Mangelsdorff Erik van Lier Ron Mathewson Fats Sadi Kenny Clare Benny Bailey Jimmy Woode Art Farmer Sahib Shihab Shake Keane Idrees Sulieman Herb Geller Phil Woods Zoot Sims Stan Getz John Bodwin Derek Watkins
Studio albums	Jazz Is Universal (1962) Handle with Care (1963) Now Hear Our Meanin' (1965) Swing, Waltz, Swing (1966) Sax No End (1967) Out of the Folk Bag (1967) 17 Men and Their Music (1967) All Smiles (1968) Faces (1968) More (1968) Latin Kaleidoscope (1968) Fellini 712 (1969) All Blues (1969) More Smiles (1969) Off Limits (1970) November Girl (1970) Change of Scenes (1971)
Live albums	Clarke Boland Big Band en Concert avec Europe 1 (1969)
Related albums	Bohemia After Dark (1955) The Golden 8 (1961) Americans in Europe Vol. 1 (1963)

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