Potpourri is a 1974 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Philadelphia International Records label. The album was nominated for a 1975 Grammy Award in the category, "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" and Thad Jones' arrangement of "Living for the City"by Stevie Wonder was also nominated in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category that same year.LA Times, "The Envelope" awards database. 1975 Grammy awards link. Accessed 2008 April 19.
Track listing LP side A: "Blues In A Minute" – 8:24 "All My Yesterdays" – 4:31 "Quiet Lady" – 7:31 "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" (Stevie Wonder) – 3:58 LP side B: "For the Love of Money" (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Anthony Jackson) – 4:12 "Yours and Mine" – 3:46 "Ambiance" (Marian McPartland; arranged by Jerry Dodgion) – 7:22 "Living for the City" (Stevie Wonder) – 4:24 All songs composed and arranged by Thad Jones except as indicated.
Personnel Thad Jones – flugelhorn Mel Lewis – drums Roland Hanna – piano George Mraz – bass Jerry Dodgion – alto saxophone, flute Eddie Xiques – alto saxophone, flute, clarinet Billy Harper – tenor saxophone, clarinet Ron Bridgewater – tenor saxophone, clarinet Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone Jon Faddis – trumpet Jim Bossy – trumpet Steve Furtado – trumpet Cecil Bridgewater – trumpet Jimmy Knepper – trombone Quentin Jackson – trombone Billy Campbell – trombone Cliff Heather – trombone Buddy Lucas – harmonica, jaw harp
References
External links discogs.com, Accessed 2008 May 1