Phineas Newborn Jr.

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Celia 00:00 Tools
Four 00:00 Tools
Golden Earrings 00:00 Tools
Sweet and Lovely 00:00 Tools
Barbados 00:00 Tools
Take the a Train 00:00 Tools
For All We Know 00:00 Tools
All the Things You Are 00:00 Tools
Star Eyes 00:00 Tools
Dahoud 00:00 Tools
Daahoud 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
Barbados (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The More I See You 00:00 Tools
Newport Blues 00:00 Tools
Celia (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning To See The Light (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning to See the Light 00:00 Tools
Afternoon In Paris (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Cherokee 00:00 Tools
Oleo 00:00 Tools
Dahoud (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Cheryl 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bud (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
For Carl 00:00 Tools
Ray's Idea 00:00 Tools
Manteca 00:00 Tools
Hard to Find 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Lush Life 00:00 Tools
Pazmuerte 00:00 Tools
Harlem Blues 00:00 Tools
A Walkin' Thing 00:00 Tools
Cabu 00:00 Tools
Juicy Lucy 00:00 Tools
The Midnight Sun Never Sets (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
This Here 00:00 Tools
The Blessing 00:00 Tools
Stella by Starlight 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Memphis Blues 00:00 Tools
Salt Peanuts 00:00 Tools
Sugar Ray 00:00 Tools
Nica's Dream (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Diane 00:00 Tools
Cookin' At The Continental 00:00 Tools
Real Gone Guy 00:00 Tools
The Sermon 00:00 Tools
Domingo 00:00 Tools
Out Of This World (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Together Again 00:00 Tools
Prelude to a Kiss 00:00 Tools
Well, You Needn't 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
Pamela 00:00 Tools
Back Home 00:00 Tools
Theme for Basie 00:00 Tools
New Blues 00:00 Tools
No Moon At All 00:00 Tools
Way Out West 00:00 Tools
Nica's Dream 00:00 Tools
The More I See You (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Midnight Sun Never Sets 00:00 Tools
Double Play 00:00 Tools
Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
Overtime 00:00 Tools
Lorraine's Walk/ Willow Weep for Me (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps/Everything I Have Is Yours/Reprise (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Just In Time 00:00 Tools
Newport Blues (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Together Again (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Serenade in Blue/ Where Is the Love 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bud 00:00 Tools
Memphis Blues (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I'll Remember April 00:00 Tools
Be Deedle Dee Do 00:00 Tools
Caravan 00:00 Tools
Blue Daniel 00:00 Tools
Out Of This World 00:00 Tools
Chelsea Bridge 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Lorraine's Walk/ Willow Weep for Me 00:00 Tools
Goodbye/ Flamingo 00:00 Tools
Autumn in New York 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
Goodbye/ Flamingo (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
Live and Love/ One for Horace (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Stairway to the Stars 00:00 Tools
Love and Marriage 00:00 Tools
Good Lil' Man 00:00 Tools
Abbers Song 00:00 Tools
Clarisse 00:00 Tools
Moon River 00:00 Tools
Land's End 00:00 Tools
Live and Love/ One for Horace 00:00 Tools
Reflection 00:00 Tools
Tin Tin Deo 00:00 Tools
45° Angle 00:00 Tools
What's New? 00:00 Tools
I've Got the World On a String 00:00 Tools
Ivy League Blues 00:00 Tools
Please Send Me Someone To Love 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
Give Me the Simple Life 00:00 Tools
Take the 'A' Train 00:00 Tools
Come To Baby, Do 00:00 Tools
While My Lady Sleeps 00:00 Tools
Brentwood Blues 00:00 Tools
The Midnight Sun Will Never Set 00:00 Tools
He's A Real Gone Guy 00:00 Tools
Rough Ridin' 00:00 Tools
Tamarind Blues 00:00 Tools
Celia - LP Version 00:00 Tools
For Left Hand Only 00:00 Tools
Little Niles 00:00 Tools
She (She Means Everything To Me) 00:00 Tools
Come Sunday 00:00 Tools
Stay on It 00:00 Tools
Black Coffee 00:00 Tools
It's All Right With Me 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps/Everything I Have Is Yours/Reprise 00:00 Tools
After Hours 00:00 Tools
Sneakin' Around 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love 00:00 Tools
Be Deedle Dee Do (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Sometimes I'm Happy 00:00 Tools
Barbados - LP Version 00:00 Tools
It's Alright With Me 00:00 Tools
Blues Theme, for Left Hand Only 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
スター・アイズ 00:00 Tools
Come to Baby Do! 00:00 Tools
Solitaire 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love? 00:00 Tools
Moonlight In Vermont 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps/Everything I Have Is Yours/Where Is The Love - Reprise 00:00 Tools
It'S Easy To Remember 00:00 Tools
15 The Midnight Sun Never Sets 00:00 Tools
Savanna 00:00 Tools
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair 00:00 Tools
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 00:00 Tools
Don't You Know I Care 00:00 Tools
Donald'S Dream 00:00 Tools
C Jam Blues 00:00 Tools
Phineas Newborn Jr. - For All We Know 00:00 Tools
フォー・オール・ウィ・ノウ 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
Lazy Mood 00:00 Tools
Our Delight 00:00 Tools
She Means Everything to Me 00:00 Tools
Bali Ha'I 00:00 Tools
All The Things You Are - LP Version 00:00 Tools
A列車で行こう 00:00 Tools
45º Angle 00:00 Tools
Little Biscuit 00:00 Tools
Afternoon In Paris - LP Version 00:00 Tools
If I Should Lose You 00:00 Tools
The More I See You - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Memphis Blues - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Love For Sale 00:00 Tools
I'm Beginning To See The Light - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Push De Button 00:00 Tools
Be Deedle Dee Do (alt) 00:00 Tools
Cocoanut Sweet 00:00 Tools
Phineas Newborn Jr. - Star Eyes 00:00 Tools
Watch What Happens 00:00 Tools
Bye Bye Blackbird 00:00 Tools
Napoleon 00:00 Tools
Together Again - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
I'm Old Fashioned 00:00 Tools
Dahoud - LP Version 00:00 Tools
On Green Dolphin Street 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Take The "A" Train 00:00 Tools
Pity De Sunset 00:00 Tools
The Christmas Song /Santa Claus Is Coming to Town 00:00 Tools
Serenade in Blue/ Where Is the Love - LP Version 00:00 Tools
The Champ 00:00 Tools
Take It Slow, Joe 00:00 Tools
Newport Blues - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Nica's Dream - LP Version 00:00 Tools
The Midnight Sun Never Sets - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind 00:00 Tools
For Every Fish 00:00 Tools
Come to Baby Do 00:00 Tools
Goodbye/ Flamingo - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Lorraine's Walk/ Willow Weep for Me - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps/Everything I Have Is Yours/Reprise - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Hooray For De Yankee Dollar 00:00 Tools
I'm Old-Fashioned 00:00 Tools
19 Love and Marriage 00:00 Tools
Out Of This World - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Come to Baby, Do! 00:00 Tools
On Green Dolphin St. 00:00 Tools
Goodbye / Flamingo 00:00 Tools
Hooray for De Yanakee Dallor 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bud - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Live and Love/ One for Horace - LP Version 00:00 Tools
Walkin' 00:00 Tools
Lorraine's Walk / Willow Weep for Me 00:00 Tools
Pretty To Walk With 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps/Everything I Have Is Yours/Where Is The Love (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good) 00:00 Tools
Sophistcated Lady 00:00 Tools
11 Take the A Train 00:00 Tools
12 Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
03 It's Alright with Me 00:00 Tools
Live And Love / One For Horace 00:00 Tools
Airegin 00:00 Tools
13 Ain't Misbehavin' 00:00 Tools
20 Give Me the Simple Life 00:00 Tools
Lorraine's Walk-Willow Weep For Me 00:00 Tools
01 Savanna 00:00 Tools
01 Star Eyes 00:00 Tools
45deg Angle 00:00 Tools
Barbados (Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Serenade In Blue / Where Is the Love 00:00 Tools
Land's Ends 00:00 Tools
Dahound 00:00 Tools
14 I've Got the World on a String 00:00 Tools
Bag's Groove 00:00 Tools
Giant Steps-Everything I Have Is Yours-Where Is The Love 00:00 Tools
04 I Can't Get Started 00:00 Tools
06 Just in Time 00:00 Tools
10 Chelsea Bridge 00:00 Tools
Confirmation 00:00 Tools
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It's Allright With Me 00:00 Tools
Night In Tunesia 00:00 Tools
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Serenade In Blue-Where Is The Love 00:00 Tools
18 Ivy League Blues 00:00 Tools
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17 Undecided 00:00 Tools
Don't You Know I Care - Or Don't You Care To Know 00:00 Tools
16 Real Gone Guy 00:00 Tools
02 Golden Earrings 00:00 Tools
06 Hooray for de Yankee Dollar 00:00 Tools
04 Push de Button 00:00 Tools
Cheryl (Charlie Parker) 00:00 Tools
09 For Left Hand Only 00:00 Tools
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07 For Every Fish 00:00 Tools
08 For All We Know 00:00 Tools
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Phineas Newborn, Jr. (December 14, 1931 – May 26, 1989) was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Bud Powell. Newborn came from a musical family: his father, Phineas Newborn, Sr., was a blues musician and his younger brother, Calvin, a jazz guitarist. Phineas studied piano as well as trumpet, and tenor and baritone saxophone. Before moving on to work with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, and others, Newborn first played in an R&B band led by his father on drums, with his brother Calvin on guitar, Tuff Green on bass, Ben Branch and future Hi Records star Willie Mitchell. The group was the house band at the now famous Plantation Inn Club in West Memphis, Arkansas, from 1947 to 1951, and recorded as B. B. King's band on his first recordings in 1949, as well as the Sun Records sessions in 1950. They left West Memphis in 1951 to tour with Jackie Brenston as the "Delta Cats" in support of the record "Rocket 88", recorded by Sam Phillips and considered by many to be the first ever rock & roll record (it was the first Billboard No. 1 record for Chess Records). Among his earliest recordings, from the early 1950s, are those for Sun Records with blues harmonica player Big Walter Horton, We Three (as a trio with drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Paul Chambers), and his debut as a solo artist on RCA Victor, Phineas' Rainbow. From 1956 he began to perform in New York City, making his first album as a leader in that year. His trios and quartets at that time included Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke, George Joyner and Philly Joe Jones. He created enough interest internationally to work as a solo pianist in Stockholm in 1958 and in Rome the following year. Subsequently moving to Los Angeles around 1960, he recorded a sequence of piano trio albums for the Contemporary label. However, some critics found his playing style rather facile, and Newborn developed emotional problems as a result, necessitating his admission to the Camarillo State Mental Hospital for some periods. He also suffered a hand injury which hindered his playing. Newborn’s later career was intermittent due to ongoing health problems. This is most true of the period from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s when he faded from view, underappreciated and underrecorded. He made a partial comeback in the late 1970s and early 1980s, although this return apparently failed to benefit his financial situation. He died in 1989 after the discovery of a growth on his lungs and was buried in Memphis National Cemetery. According to jazz historian Nat Hentoff, Newborn's plight spurred the 1989 founding of the Jazz Foundation of America, a group dedicated to helping with the medical bills and other financial needs of retired jazz greats. In the early 1990s the four-player Contemporary Piano Ensemble was formed by pianists Harold Mabern, James Williams, Mulgrew Miller, and Geoff Keezer to pay tribute to Newborn; it recorded two albums and toured internationally. Despite his setbacks, many of Newborn's records, such as The Great Jazz Piano of Phineas Newborn, Jr and Phineas' Rainbow, remain highly regarded. Jazz commentator Scott Yanow even referred to Newborn as "one of the most technically skilled and brilliant pianists in jazz." Evidence of his technical prowess can be heard on tracks such as "Sometimes I'm Happy" on Look Out - Phineas is Back! where Newborn performs extended, complex, and brisk solos with both hands in unison. Leonard Feather once said of him "In his prime, he was one of the three greatest jazz pianists of all time." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.