Time: 49:15+40:14
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front
CD 1:
01. One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer (1:38)
02. Lover Man (2:26)
03. Hurry On Down To My House (1:25)
04. Blues In The Night (2:39)
05. Straighten Up & Fly Right (1:21)
06. One For The Road (3:33)
07. I Like That Kind Of Carryin' On (1:54)
08. Moonlight In Vermont (3:24)
09. That Old Black Magic (2:04)
10. Hey There (3:24)
11. You'd Better Go Now (2:37)
12. The Nearness Of You (3:21)
13. A Hundred Years From Today (2:27)
14. There Is No Greater Love (3:05)
15. Am I Blue (2:38)
16. I've Got A Right To Cry (2:44)
17. Fool That I Am (2:49)
18. Mobile (2:42)
19. Somehow (2:56)
CD 2:
01. Basin Street Blues (2:18)
02. Imagination (2:37)
03. Careless (3:00)
04. It's Over (3:20)
05. Blue Skies (1:53)
06. I Surrender Dear (2:11)
07. Out Of Nowhere (1:33)
08. This Love Of Mine (1:50)
09. St. Louis Blues (2:53)
10. When Your Lover Has Gone (2:30)
11. Blue Prelude (2:51)
12. Too Marvelous For Words (2:12)
13. I Almost Lost My Mind (3:07)
14. (How Can You Stay Away) So Long (3:00)
15. Stormy Weather (2:01)
16. Glory Of Love (2:50)
Personnel: La Vergne Smith (vcl, p, celeste), Wallace Davenport (tp), Wendell Albert Eugene (tb), Red Tyler (bar), Howard Mandolph (vb), Ernst McLean (g), Philip Darios (b), Earl Palmer (d)
La Vergne Smith was a singer and pianist whose warm, engaging way with torch songs and bluesy tunes was a popular part of the night-life French Quarter of her native New Orleans in the late 40s and 50s. Her vocal style was intimate and sensitive, and her self-accompaniment on piano simplest, yet she still projected a sophisticated approach that delighted the clientele of the smarter, candlelight saloons that began appearing there in 1947.
In this case, the boîte was the Old Absinthe House, located at the corner of Bienville and Bourbon streets in New Orleans, and known for the worm-wood derivative for which the place was namedabsinthe. It was in that musty green ambience, where she started singing in early 1954, that her Cook and Savoy albums included here were recorded. And it was there, during the third year of her engagement, that her artistry was captured on the Vik label for the final album of this set, on which she sings with so much feeling, warmth and conviction, enhanced by some fine, sympathetic New Orleans musicians.
CD 1 - Tracks #1-11, from the album "Angel in the Absinthe House"
CD 1 - Tracks #12-19 & CD 2, tracks #1-4 from the album "The New Orleans Nightingale"
CD 2 - Tracks #5-16, from the album "La Vergne Smith"
La Vergne Smith was a singer and pianist whose warm, engaging way with torch songs and bluesy tunes was a popular part of the night-life French Quarter of her native New Orleans in the late 40s and 50s. Her vocal style was intimate and sensitive, and her self-accompaniment on piano simplest, yet she still projected a sophisticated approach that delighted the clientele of the smarter, candlelight saloons that began appearing there in 1947.
In this case, the boîte was the Old Absinthe House, located at the corner of Bienville and Bourbon streets in New Orleans, and known for the worm-wood derivative for which the place was namedabsinthe. It was in that musty green ambience, where she started singing in early 1954, that her Cook and Savoy albums included here were recorded. And it was there, during the third year of her engagement, that her artistry was captured on the Vik label for the final album of this set, on which she sings with so much feeling, warmth and conviction, enhanced by some fine, sympathetic New Orleans musicians.
CD 1 - Tracks #1-11, from the album "Angel in the Absinthe House"
CD 1 - Tracks #12-19 & CD 2, tracks #1-4 from the album "The New Orleans Nightingale"
CD 2 - Tracks #5-16, from the album "La Vergne Smith"
The New Orleans Nightingale CD 1
The New Orleans Nightingale CD 2
