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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:

  1. “To find a trio of swinging musicians who care for me enough to play with feeling; correct, musically and technically.”
  2. To keep all my necessary bills down to a minimum of which I’m sure I can keep them up to date.”
  3. “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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Together is a 1961 album by vocalist Joe Williams and trumpeter Harry “Sweets” Edison which was originally released on the Roulette label. The session was recorded on January 31st and February 1st & 2nd in Los Angeles, California and produced by Teddy Reig.

Track Listing
  1.     Winter Weather (Ted Shapiro) – 1:52
  2.     I Don’t Know Why (I Just Do) (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:30
  3.     There’s a Small Hotel (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:19
  4.     Out of Nowhere (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 2:14
  5.     Aren’t You Glad You’re You (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 2:27
  6.     Remember (Irving Berlin) – 1:52
  7.     Together (Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown) – 2:28
  8.     Deep Purple ([Peter DeRose]], Mitchell Parish) – 2:48
  9.     Always” (Irving Berlin) – 2:37
  10.     Lover Came Back (Victor Herbert, Frederika de Grasec, Harry B. Smith) – 4:05
  11.     By the River Sainte Marie (Edgar Leslie]], Harry Warren) – 1:57
  12.     Alone Together (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 2:30
The Players
  • Joe Williams – vocals
  • Harry “Sweets” Edison – trumpet
  • Jimmy Forrest – tenor saxophone
  • “Sir” Charles Thompson – piano
  • Tommy Potter – bass
  • Clarence Johnston – drums
  • Unidentified musician – guitar

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Abbey Is Blue is the fourth album by jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring tracks recorded in the Spring and Fall of 1959 in New York City for the Riverside label. The album was produced by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews, the latter also writing the liner notes The album was mastered by Jack Matthews and the cover photograph was taken by Lawrence N. Shustak. The design of the cover was created by Harris Lewine, Ken Braren and Paul Bacon. 

Abbey Lincoln had mastered Billie Holiday’s skill at inhabiting the lyrics of a song and projecting its emotional content outward, and these songs, all of which deal with sorrow, are stark and harrowing accounts of loss and injustice.

Track Listing | 39:19
  • Afro Blue (Mongo Santamaría) – 3:20
  • Lonely House (Langston Hughes, Kurt Weill) – 3:40
  • Let Up (Abbey Lincoln) – 5:32
  • Thursday’s Child (Elisse Boyd, Murray Grand) – 3:31
  • Brother, Where Are You? (Oscar Brown) – 3:10
  • Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Ted Fio Rito, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) – 5:24
  • Come Sunday (Duke Ellington) – 5:13
  • Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 2:46
  • Lost in the Stars (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 4:11
  • Long as You’re Living” (Oscar Brown, Julian Priester, Tommy Turrentine) – 2:33
Personnel
  • Abbey Lincoln – vocals
  • Kenny Dorham (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), Tommy Turrentine (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10) – trumpet
  • Julian Priester – trombone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)
  • Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10)
  • Les Spann – guitar (tracks 2, 4 & 7-9), flute (track 5)
  • Wynton Kelly (tracks 2, 4, 5), Cedar Walton (tracks 3 & 6), Phil Wright (tracks 7-9) – piano
  • Bobby Boswell (tracks 1, 3, 6 & 10), Sam Jones (tracks 2, 4, 5 & 7-9) – bass
  • Philly Joe Jones (tracks: 2, 4, 5 & 7-9), Max Roach (tracks: 1, 3, 6 & 10) – drums
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