Some Of My Best Friends Are Singers (1998) (Feat. Bridgewater/Krall/Jones )

Product Summary Label: Telarc UPC: 00089408344121 Release Date: 9/29/1998 Buy.com Sku: 60158893 Item#: M2WM7N Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. I Thought About You - (with Diana Krall) ~ Ray Brown Trio 2. Poor Butterfly - (with Etta Jones) ~ Ray Brown Trio 3. More Than You Know - (with Dee Dee Bridgewater) ~ Ray Brown Trio 4. Little Boy - (with Diana Krall) ~ Ray Brown Trio 5. But Beautiful - (with Nancy King/Antonio Hart) ~ Ray Brown Trio 6. At Long Last Love - (with Marlena Shaw) ~ Ray Brown Trio 7. Skylark - (with Kevin Mahogany/Russell Malone) ~ Ray Brown Trio 8. Cherokee - (with Dee Dee Bridgewater/Ralph Moore) ~ Ray Brown Trio 9. No Greater Love, (There Is) - (with Etta Jones/Russell Malone) ~ Ray Brown Trio 10. Imagination - (with Marlena Shaw) ~ Ray Brown Trio 11. Party's Over, The - (with Kevin Mahogany) ~ Ray Brown Trio 12. Perfect Blues, The - (with Nancy King/Antonio Hart) ~ Ray Brown Trio   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Ray Brown Trio: Ray Brown (bass); Geoff Keezer (piano); Gregory Hutchinson (drums). Additional personnel: Dee Dee Bridgewater, Etta Jones, Nancy King, Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany, Marlena Shaw (vocals); Antonio Hart (alto saxophone); Ralph Moore (tenor saxophone); Russell Malone (guitar). Recorded at O'Henry Studios, Studio A, Burbank, California on December 15-17, 1997 and Sony Music Studio D, New York, New York on April 27-29, 1998. Includes liner notes by Jon W. Poses. 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 Some of My Best Friends Are...Piano Players and Some of My Best Friends Are...Sax Players, 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 Bridgewater on "Cherokee." ~ Jim Newsom Producer: Ray Brown; Elaine Martone Engineer: Michael Bishop Musical Guests Dee Dee Bridgewater Etta Jones Russell Malone Diana Krall Kevin Mahogany Marlena Shaw Antonio Hart   Compilation Appearances Concord Jazz Heritage Series S Usa All Stars In Berlin 1955 Jazz At Night's End Duke Ellington Swings Groovin' The Blues Intimate Evening Jazz For Dads Jazz Moods Jazz Live From New York Party Mix Celebrating 25 Years Jazz Collection Concord Records 30th Anniversary Box SACD Sampler 3: Telarc Jazz (SACD) Contemporary Records Story Harold Arlen Centennial Celebration Jazz Moods: sounds Of Spring Cafe Jazz Music To Make The Impossible Possible Friends And Family Surround Sounds 2   Associated Artists and Works Alexander, Monty Almeida, Laurindo This One's for Blanton ~ Ellington, Duke Ellington, Duke Arrival: Jazz/Concord/Seven, Come Eleven ~ Ellis, Herb Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy Johnson & Johnson & Brown Jackson, Johnson, Brown & Company ~ Johnson & Johnson & Brown Johnson & Johnson & Brown Johnson & Johnson & Brown Jones, Hank (Jazz) Manne The Very Tall Band: Live at the Blue Note ~ Peterson, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Old Friends ~ Previn, Andre Basic Reeding ~ Reed, Lucy Various Artists   Technical Info Release Date : 09/15/1998 Original Release Date : 1998 Catalog ID : 83441 Label : Telarc Distribution Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 59m : 0s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00089408344121    Related Videos Randy Jackson: Randy Jack...