Description:
On this CD you are conscious of the shadow and spirit of the blues during the spell of the album, though the substance and twelve measure formula may be absent. The "brown sugar" timbre of Wiley's unmistakable contralto, the aged in the jazz wood nature of the material, the glove like arrangements of Al Cohn and Bill Binegan tailored to the sympathetic hands of Billy Butterfield's fifteen piece band all these, allied with Miss Wiley's unique facility for nudging along the phrases of a tune with her own sweet and gentle subtlety, combine to effect an ideal delineation of an artist who need not be considered either as jazz singer or pop singer, but rather as a superb rhythmic dramatist. |
 The Memphis Blues
From The Land Of The Sky Blue Water
The Ace In The Hole
Someday You'll Be Sorry
My Melancholy Baby
A Hundred Years From Today
Blues In My Heart
Maybe You'll Be There
Between the Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
I Don't Want To Walk Without You, Baby
Make Believe
A Touch Of The Blues |
Personnel: Mundell Lowe, Billy Butterfield, Hank d'Amico, Nick Travis, Don Lamond, Moe Wechsler, Al Cohn, Gene Allen, Nick Caiazza, Cutty Cutshall, Joe Ferrante, Barry Galbraith, Milt Hinton, Toots Mondello, Rex Peer, Tony Faso |
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