Release : Ray Brown Trio - Some of My Best Friends Are Singers
Artist : Ray Brown Trio
Album : Some of My Best Friends Are Singers
Genre : Jazz
Source : CDDA
Label : Telarc
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Date : 1998-00-00
Encoder : LAME 3.90.3 / alt-preset standard
Quality : 187kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 12
Time : 58:55 min
Size : 83.04
1 I Thought About You With Diana Krall 5:22
2 Poor Butterfly With Etta Jones 3:29
3 More Than You Know 5:34
4 Little Boy With Diana Krall 2:27
5 But Beautiful 5:41
6 At Long Last Love With Marlena Shaw 3:23
7 Skylark 6:01
8 Cherokee With Dee Dee Bridgewater 6:20
9 (There Is) No Greater Love 4:21
10 Imagination 7:21
11 The Party's Over With Kevin Mahogany 3:40
12 The Perfect Blues With Nancy King 5:16
What does a bass player do when he's recording an album as a leader? Surely not
an hour's worth of bass solos! Ray Brown solved the bass player's dilemma with a
series of recordings under the Some of My Best Friends Are... heading. This 1998
release is the third in the series, following the earlier ...Piano Players and
...Saxophonists albums, and it's a gem. Featuring a sextet of fine vocalists,
ranging from the well-established to the unknown, this CD is a class act from
beginning to end. The rising jazz vocal superstar of the late '90s, Diana Krall,
is showcased to great effect on "I Thought About You" and "Little Boy."
Well-established female vocal veterans Etta Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and
Marlena Shaw deliver superb performances, soulfully giving master lessons in the
art of singing. The lone male singer spotlighted here, Kevin Mahogany, wraps his
smooth baritone around the ballad, "Skylark," and swings gently on "The Party's
Over."
The one unknown in this collection is Oregonian Nancy King. This veteran of the
San Francisco and Pacific Northwest scenes shows she has a fine way with a
ballad on "But Beautiful," and scats her way across the upbeat Brown original,
"The Perfect Blues," that closes this set. Both of these songs also feature
Antonio Hart's alto saxophone. In addition to Brown's trio mates Geoff Keezer
and Gregory Hutchinson, musical support includes guitarist Russell Malone on two
tracks and tenor saxman Ralph Moore cooking alongside Ms. Bridgewater on
"Cherokee."
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