What Headphones? is a 1993 album by André Previn.
Reception
The album was reviewed by Richard S. Ginell at Allmusic who wrote that it was Previn's "best album since his return to jazz at the close of the 1980s, and also the most surprising and unpredictable one of his entire jazz life". Ginell highlighted the title track, which he wrote was "almost avant-garde in its erudite looniness". Ginell praised Previn's playing as possessing "greater streaks of wit and a cannier use of space than ever before".
Track listing "What Headphones?" (André Previn) – 6:09 "You Are My All" (Myrna Summers) – 5:27 "Take the 'A' Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 4:50 "Outside the Cafe" (A. Previn) – 3:10 "All Is Well" (Al Hobbs) – 4:42 "A Portrait of Bert Williams" (Duke Ellington) – 4:13 "Warm Valley" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 5:30 "Holy Spirit in Me" (Jay Terrell) – 3:20 "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) – 5:18 "You're Gonna Hear from Me" (A. Previn, Dory Previn) – 4:19 "You Never Gave Up on Me" (V. Michael McKay) – 4:32
Personnel André Previn – piano, arranger, liner notes Ray Brown – double bass Warren Vaché – cornet Richard Todd – French horn Mundell Lowe – guitar Jim Pugh – trombone Grady Tate – drums Earl Brown Singers
Production Bob Abriola – art direction, director Roy Clark, Richard Clarke – assistant engineer Alice Butts – digital artwork, package design Qwendolyn Brown – director, musical direction Earle Brown – director Phil Ramone – engineer, producer John Patterson – engineer Will Friedwald, Gene Lees – liner notes Bernie Grundman, Allen Silverman – mastering Bryan Carrigan – mixing assistant Don Hahn – mixing Daniel Root – photography Anaida Garcia – production assistant Jill Dell'Abate – project coordinator Hugh Fordin – reissue producer
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