While My Lady Sleeps is an album by the American jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. with Dennis Farnon and His Orchestra recorded in 1957 and released on the RCA Victor label.Phineas Newborn Jr. catalog, accessed May 11, 2015Phineas Newborn Jr. discography, accessed May 11, 2015
Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Although not as vital as his usual trio dates and Farnon's string arrangements are not too inspiring, the music is pleasing and finds Newborn in his early prime".
Track listing "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) – 5:06 "Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)" (Mack David, Duke Ellington) – 5:05 "Lazy Mood" (Eddie Miller, Johnny Mercer) – 5:22 "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Mercer) – 3:57 "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (Traditional) – 4:05 "While My Lady Sleeps" (Bronisław Kaper, Gus Kahn) – 6:12 "It's Easy to Remember" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:02 "Bali Ha'i" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 4:21 "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 5:48
Personnel Phineas Newborn Jr. – piano George Joyner – bass Alvin Stoller – drums Victor Arno, Len Atkins, Israel Baker, Jack Gasselin, Benny Gill, Henry Hill, Carl LaMagna, Marvin Limonick, Dan Lube, Alfred Lustgarten, Ralph Shaeffer, Jerry Vinci, Eunice Wennermark – violin Cecil Figelski, Al Harshman, Abraham Hochstein, Harry Hymans, Lou Kievman, Joe Reilich, George Neikrug – viola Ray Kramer, Ed Lustgarten, George Neikrug – cello Dennis Farnon – arranger, conductor
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