Teddi King - The Storyville Sessions 1954-1955

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s

Time: 60:16

Size: 138.0 MB

Styles: Jazz vocals

Year: 2013

Art: Front

[2:45] 1. I Saw Stars

[2:25] 2. Love Is A Now And Then Thing

[2:53] 3. New Orleans

[3:12] 4. The Talk Of The Town

[2:36] 5. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan

[2:30] 6. It's All In The Mind

[3:33] 7. Our Love Is Here To Stay

[3:13] 8. Spring Won't Be Around This Season

[2:48] 9. Why Do You Suppose

[3:39] 10. Over The Rainbow

[2:37] 11. This Is Always

[2:42] 12. Fools Fall In Love

[2:58] 13. I Didn't Know About You

[4:06] 14. Old Folks

[3:38] 15. You Turned The Tables On Me

[2:49] 16. Like A Ship Without Sail

[3:16] 17. Something To Live For

[3:26] 18. I'm In The Market For You

[2:22] 19. You Hit The Spot

[2:39] 20. You Can Depend On Me

Twofer: Tracks #1-8, from the 10-inch LP “Miss Teddi King” (Storyville LP 314). Teddi King (vcl), Ruby Braff (tp), Jimmy Jones (p), Milt Hinton (b), Jo Jones (d). Recorded in New York City, July 1954. Tracks #9-20, from the 12-inch LP “Now in Vogue” (Storyville LP 903). Teddi King (vcl), Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb), Billy Taylor (p), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d). On #9,10,11 & 15, Nick Travis (tp), Gene Quill (as) and Sol Schlinger (bs) added. Recorded in New York City, October 1955.

Possibly because of the sheer perfection of her vocal technique, Teddi King (1929-1977) may not have immediately seemed to some to be a jazz singer. But, in a career that included work with such piano luminaries as Nat Pierce, George Shearing and Dave McKenna, she won herself a small but discerning following as one of the best.

Influenced by such outstanding jazz singers as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, whom she did not resemble vocally, and Lee Wiley, Mabel Mercer and Mildred Bailey, whom perhaps to a slight degree she did, she was blessed with near-perfect intonation, impeccable phrasing and a voice of crystalline beauty and freshness. All this is evident on these early Storyville sessions, where she is backed by front-line jazz talent in Ruby Braff, Nick Travis, Bob Brookmeyer, Gene Quill, pianists Jimmy Jones and Billy Taylor and sterling drummers Jo Jones and Osie Johnson. In these intimate, subtly calibrated sessions she sings with a warmth and delicacy no less forceful for being presented with elegance, sophistication and a complete absence of superfluous gesture or vocal sleightof-hand.

It should surprise nobody that she held Sinatra as the epitome of what a popular singer should be and he, with his frank jazz awareness, was as close to perfection in terms of phrasing as any singer could aspire to.

The Storyville Sessions 1954-1955

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