Chie Ayado & Junior Mance - Only You

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 1996
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:24
Size: 145,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:55)  1. All Blues
(3:33)  2. Deed I Do
(3:08)  3. Here's That Rainy Day
(4:33)  4. Only You
(5:51)  5. Dindi
(4:26)  6. That's All
(4:24)  7. Tennessee Waltz
(3:14)  8. I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
(6:49)  9. Stormy Monday
(3:33) 10. The End of a Beautiul Friendship
(3:28) 11. His Eyes Is on the Sparrow
(5:19) 12. So What
(4:49) 13. If I Had You
(4:15) 14. Stormy Monday

As this is the case with many international stars, Chie Ayado is not a household name in America. In her native Japan, she's a superstar jazz performer with tens of millions recordings sold. She's so in demand, she continues to play over forty large-venue concerts a year. Her label, EWE, is making a name for itself with Three Blind Mice-style analog recordings of unbelievable accuracy and dimension. Vocals are listening-room immediate and the piano is detailed, full and beautifully balanced. Very little processing is used, so you hear Ayado's unique vocal and piano playing without all the sonic distractions hiding many modern digital recordings. https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/chieayado

Junior Mance is well-known for his soulful bluesy style, but he is also expert at playing bop standards. He started playing professionally when he was ten. Mance worked with Gene Ammons in Chicago during 1947-1949, played with Lester Young (1950), and was with the Ammons-Sonny Stitt group until he was drafted. He was the house pianist at Chicago's Bee Hive (1953-1954), worked as Dinah Washington's accompanist (1954-1955), was in the first Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1956-1957), and then spent two years touring with Dizzy Gillespie (1958-1960). 

After a few months with the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Johnny Griffin group, Mance formed his own trio and has mostly been a leader ever since. He has led sessions for Verve, Jazzland, Riverside, Capitol, Atlantic, Milestone, Polydor, Inner City, JSP, Nilva, Sackville, and Bee Hive, among other labels.~Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/artist/junior-mance-mn0000252026/biography

Personnel:  Chie Ayado - vocals, piano (#11,14);  Junior Mance – piano;  Satoshi Inoue – guitar;  Calvin Hill – bass;  Akira Tana - drums

Only You

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