Quiet Nights is an album by English multi-instrumentalist and composer, Django Bates. It was released on the Screwgun label in 1998.
Reception Allmusic awarded the album with 4.5 out of 5 stars and its review by Thom Jurek states: "Bates and his band have taken these old warhorses and made them magical again, brought out the starlight and glitter and tossed it about the melodies, stretched the harmonies into cloud shapes, and added enough atmosphere and dimension to make Gil Evans smile from heaven."[ Allmusic: Quiet Nights] accessed 19 May 2010
Track listing "Speak Low" (Ogden Nash, Kurt Weill) – 9:14 "Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene de Paul) – 3:15 "And the Mermaid Laughed" (Iain Ballamy, Django Bates) – 3:21 "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gene Lees) – 3:14 "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (Helen Deutsch, Bronisław Kaper) – 4:06 "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange) – 5:10 "Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:43 "Is There Anyone Up There?" (Bates) – 6:10 "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 6:36
Personnel Django Bates – keyboards, tenor horn, voices Iain Ballamy – saxophone, harmonica Josefine Cronholm – vocals, voices, Tibetan bells Mike Mondesir – bass Martin France – drums, percussion
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