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Carmen for Cool Ones is a 1958 album by jazz singer Carmen McRae, arranged by cellist Fred Katz. The studio sessions were recorded in Los Angeles, California on December 5, 16, 1957 and released in 1958 on the Decca Records label. Discovered and signed to the label by Decca’s A&R head Milt Gabler to fill the void and niche Ella Fitzgerald created, this was her sixth album for the label.
Tracks | 36:15 1. All the Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) 2. A Shoulder to Cry On 3. Any Old Time (Artie Shaw) 4. Weak for the Man (Jeanne Burns) 5. What’s New? (Johnny Burke, Bob Haggart) 6. I Get a Kick Out of You (Cole Porter) 7. What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry? (Walter Donaldson/Abe Lyman) 8. Without a Word of Warning (Mack Gordon, Harry Revel) 9. If I Were a Bell (Frank Loesser) 10. You Are Mine 11. The Night We Called It a Day (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) 12. I_Remember_Clifford_(song)”>I Remember Clifford (Benny Golson, Jon Hendricks) Players
- Carmen McRae – vocals, piano
- Fred Katz – arranger, conductor, cello
- Ike Isaacs – double bass
- Joe Marino – celeste, piano
- Mahlon Clark – bass clarinet
- Justin Gordon – saxophone
- George W. Smith – clarinet
- Specs Wright – drums
- Buddy Collette – flute, alto saxophone
- Harry Klee – flute
- Vincent DeRosa – French horn
- Joseph R. Gibbons – guitar
- Frank Emilio Flynn – marimba, vibraphone
- Warren Webb – oboe
- Thirteen string players
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Love Songs is an album recorded by Earl Coleman in 1968 and released by Atlantic Records. This is the only album led by the baritone vocalist from 1957 to 1976. The warmth of his voice is integral to making this underrated album worthy of any collection.
Tracks A1 People 3:27 A2 There’s No You 4:51 A3 A Day In The Life Of A Fool 2:46 A4 I’ve Got You Under My Skin 2:53 A5 I Wish I Knew 5:36 B1 I Won’t Tell A Soul 5:04 B2 The Work Song 2:37 B3 Manhattan Serenade 2:54 B4 Charade 2:53 B5 When Did You Leave Heaven 2:41 Personnel
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John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman is a 1963 studio album featuring John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman. It was recorded on March 7, 1963, at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and was released at the end of July of that year on the Impulse! Record label.
Hartman is the only vocalist with whom the saxophonist would record as a leader. Initially when producer Bob Thiele approached Hartman with Coltrane’s request that the two should record together, Hartman was hesitant as he did not consider himself a jazz singer and did not think he and Coltrane would complement one another musically.
However, Thiele encouraged Hartman to go see Coltrane perform at Birdland in New York City to see if something could be worked out. Hartman did so, and after the club closed he, Coltrane and Coltrane’s pianist, McCoy Tyner, went over some songs together. On March 7, 1963, Coltrane and Hartman had decided on 10 songs for the record album, but en route to the studio they heard Nat King Cole on the radio performing “Lush Life”, and Hartman immediately decided that song had to be included in their album.
It has become a classic ballad jazz album, and the renditions of “Lush Life”, “My One and Only Love”, and “They Say It’s Wonderful” are considered definitive. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013.
Track Listing ~ 31:11 Side One They Say It’s Wonderful | Irving Berlin ~ 5:20 Dedicated To You | Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Hy Zare ~ 5:32 My One And Only Love | Guy Wood, Robert Mellin ~ 4:55 Side Two Lush Life | Billy Strayhorn ~ 5:29 You Are Too Beautiful | Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart ~ 5:36 Autumn Serenade | Peter DeRose, Sammy Gallop ~ 4:19 Personnel Johnny Hartman – vocals John Coltrane – tenor saxophone McCoy Tyner – piano Jimmy Garrison – double bass Elvin Jones – drums
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Voice Of My Beautiful Country is a compendium of songs that reflects America’s diverse tapestry of music. It was recorded in 2011 by Rene Marie for the Motema Music label. Cover photography was taken by MaryLynn Gillaspie.
Not afraid of stretch by any sense of the word, Rene Marie deeply personalizes her covers of the Temptations, Jefferson Airplane, Dobie Gray, Dave Brubeck and Jimmy Van Heusen as well as folk and national standards that make this recording a cornucopia of American expression. Her interpretation wraps each song around her dynamic, smoky, malleable and experienced voice until it feels as if she’s written it. This is definitely one for the shelves of any collection.
Track Listing ~ 14 Songs
Strange Meadowlark
O Shenandoah
Imagination Medley
Imagination
Just My Imagination
White Rabbit
Drift Away
John Henry
Angelitos Negros
Voice Of My Beautiful Country Suite
America The Beautiful
Drum Battle
Piano Blues
My Country ‘Tis Of Thee
Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing/Star Spangled Banner
America The Beautiful ~ Reprise
Personnel
Rene Marie ~ Vocal
Kevin Bales ~ Piano
Rodney Jordan ~ Bass
Quentin Baxter ~ Drums
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Three Wishes
Baroness Pannonica inquired of Anita O’Day what her three wishes would be and she responded with:
- “To find a trio of swinging musicians who care for me enough to play with feeling; correct, musically and technically.”
- To keep all my necessary bills down to a minimum of which I’m sure I can keep them up to date.”
- “With high hopes to have some health. Hoping to have no cancer, which my mother did have. I do hope it does not run in the family. To be active until i die. You know! Up and at ’em, like!”
*Excerpt from Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats – Compiled and Photographed by Pannonica de Koenigswarter
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