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{{Infobox album
| name       = Some of My Best Friends Are...singers
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]]
| cover      = Some of My Best Friends Are...Singers.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 29 September 1998
| recorded   = 1998
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Jazz]]
| length     = 59:00
| label      = [[Telarc International Corporation|Telarc]]
| producer   =
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = Triple Play
| next_year  = 1998
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}
|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|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=185}}</ref>
}}
'''''Some of My Best Friends Are...Singers''''' is a 1998 album by double bassist [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]], accompanied by his trio, pianist [[Geoffrey Keezer]] and drummer [[Gregory Hutchinson (musician)|Gregory Hutchinson]], with singers [[Diana Krall]], [[Etta Jones]], [[Dee Dee Bridgewater]], [[Nancy King (jazz singer)|Nancy King]], [[Marlena Shaw]], and [[Kevin Mahogany]].<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000042710|label=Some of My Best Friends Are...Singers}}</ref> Guitarist [[Russell Malone]] and saxophonists [[Antonio Hart]] and [[Ralph Moore]] also played.
==Track listing==
# "[[I Thought About You]]" ([[James Van Heusen]]) feat. Diana Krall – 5:22
# "[[Poor Butterfly]]" ([[Raymond Hubbell]]) feat. Etta Jones – 3:38
# "[[More Than You Know (Youmans, Rose and Eliscu song)|More Than You Know]]" ([[Vincent Youmans]]) feat. Dee Dee Bridgewater – 5:34
# "Little Boy" (Madeline Hyde and Francis Henry) feat. Diana Krall – 2:27
# "[[But Beautiful (song)|But Beautiful]]" ([[James Van Heusen]]) feat. Antonio Hart / Nancy King – 5:41
# "[[At Long Last Love (song)|At Long Last Love]]" ([[Cole Porter]]) feat. Marlena Shaw – 3:23
# "[[Skylark (song)|Skylark]]" ([[Hoagy Carmichael]]) feat. Kevin Mahogany / Russell Malone – 6:01
# "[[Cherokee (Ray Noble song)|Cherokee]]" ([[Ray Noble]]) feat. Dee Dee Bridgewater / Ralph Moore – 6:20
# "[[There Is No Greater Love|No Greater Love]]" ([[Isham Jones]], [[Marty Symes]]) feat. Etta Jones / Russell Malone – 4:21
# "[[Imagination (1940 song)|Imagination]]" ([[James Van Heusen]]) feat. Marlena Shaw – 7:21
# "[[The Party's Over (1956 song)|The Party's Over]] ([[Jule Styne]] feat. Kevin Mahogany – 3:40
# "The Perfect Blues (Ray Brown) feat. Antonio Hart / Nancy King – 5:15
==Personnel==
===Performance===
* [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] – double bass
* [[Geoff Keezer]] – piano
* [[Gregory Hutchinson (musician)|Gregory Hutchinson]] – drums
* [[Antonio Hart]] – [[alto saxophone]]
* [[Russell Malone]] – guitar
==References==
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