More Smiles

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = More Smiles | type = Studio | artist = Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band | cover = More Smiles.jpg | alt = | released = 1969 | recorded = May 28, 1969 | venue = | studio = Lindström Studios, Cologne, Germany | genre = Jazz | length = 34:35 | label = MPS<br /><small>MPS 15 287</small> | producer = Gigi Campi | chronology = Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band | prev_title = All Blues | prev_year = 1969 | next_title = At Her Magesty's Pleasure... | next_year = 1969 }} '''''More Smiles''''' is an album by the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band featuring performances recorded in Germany in 1969 and released on the MPS label.<ref>Payne, D., [http://www.dougpayne.com/cbbbd.htm The Clarke-Boland Big Band discography] accessed October 14, 2015</ref><ref>[http://discog.piezoelektric.org/saba/saba-mps.html#15287 SABA/MPS Records listing], accessed October 14, 2015</ref><ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/johnny-griffin/catalog/#mps-mps-15287 Johnny Griffin Catalog], accessed October 14, 2015</ref><ref>[http://www.duskogojkovic.com/music/kenny-clarke-francy-boland-big-band-%E2%80%8E-smiles/ Dusko Gojkovic discography], accessed September 20, 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.ne.jp/asahi/bigband/paradise/favorite/boland7.htm Bigband Paradise album entry] accessed September 20, 2016</ref>

==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="AllMusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}} <ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=255}}</ref> }} AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.<ref name="AllMusic">[http://www.allmusic.com/album/more-smiles-mw0000470336 AllMusic listing], accessed October 14, 2015</ref>

==Track listing== # "Johnny One Note" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:38 # "Lullaby of the Leaves" (Bernice Petkere) - 4:14 # "Bei Dir War Es Immer So Schön" (Theo Mackeben) - 4:19 # "My Favorite Things" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 4:52 # "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) - 4:24 # "All Through the Night" (Cole Porter) - 3:01 # "November Girl" (Francy Boland) - 5:51 # "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" (Cole Porter) - 2:39 # "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) - 2:37

== Personnel == *Kenny Clarke - drums *Francy Boland - piano, arranger *Benny Bailey, Tony Fisher, Duško Gojković, Idrees Sulieman - trumpet *Nat Peck, Åke Persson, Eric van Lier - trombone *Derek Humble - alto saxophone *Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott, Tony Coe - tenor saxophone *Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone *Jimmy Woode - bass

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Category:1969 albums Category:Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band albums Category:MPS Records albums