Just Friends (Joe Temperley and Jimmy Knepper album)

Just Friends
Studio album by Joe Temperley and Jimmy Knepper
Released	1979
Recorded	October 20, 1978
Studio	Mastertone Studio, NYC
Genre	Jazz
Label	Hep Hep 2003
Producer	Alastair Robertson
Joe Temperley chronology
Just Friends (1979) Nightingale (1991)
Jimmy Knepper chronology
Jimmy Knepper in L.A. (1977) Just Friends (1978) Tell Me... (1979)

Just Friends is an album led by saxophonist Joe Temperley and trombonist Jimmy Knepper which was recorded in 1978 and originally released on the Scottish Hep label.^[1] The album was rereleased on CD in 1994 along with Primrose Path as Special Relationship.^[2]

Track listing

1. "John's Bunch" (John Bunch) – 4:55
2. "Stella By Starlight" (Victor Young, Ned Washington) – 4:45
3. "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 4:25
4. "Poor Butterfly" (Raymond Hubbell, John Golden) – 3;50
5. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 6:15
6. "Yardbird Suite" (Charlie Parker) – 6:10
7. "Aristocracy (of Jean Lafitte)" (Duke Ellington) – 5:22
8. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington) – 4:25
9. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) – 5:08

Personnel

• Joe Temperley – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone
• Jimmy Knepper – trombone
• Derek Smith – piano
• Michael Moore – bass
• Billy Hart – drums

References

1. Fitzgerald, M. Jimmy Knepper Leader Entry accessed April 7, 2017
2. Special Relationship – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved April 7, 2017.