Time: 24:56
Size: 57.1 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1955/2014
Art: Front
[3:01] 1. Not Mine
[5:15] 2. I Don't Want To Cry Anymore
[2:20] 3. Tulip Or Turnip
[2:48] 4. Memory Of The Rain
[3:11] 5. Down In The Depths Of The 90th Floor
[2:54] 6. You're Driving Me Crazy
[2:58] 7. I'm Glad There Is You
[2:25] 8. Moments Like This
Charlie Mariano: Alto Saxophone; Don Fagerquist: Trumpet; Helen Carr: Vocals; Max Bennett: Bass; Donn Trenner: Piano; Stan Levy: Drums.
One of the darkest vocal jazz albums of the 50s - packaged with a great title and cover image that features a lone lit window in a New York skyscraper! Helen has incredible backing on the record - a small combo that includes Charlie Mariano on alto sax, Don Fagerquist on trumpet, and Donn Trenner on piano - all gently sliding in behind Carr's blue vocals in a way that's similar to some of the Chris Connor work on Bethlehem from the same time. Titles include a near-perfect reading of 'Down In The Depths On The 90th Floor', plus 'Not Mine', 'Tulip Or Turnip', 'Moments Like This', 'I'm Glad There Is You', and 'Memory Of The Rain'.
One of the darkest vocal jazz albums of the 50s - packaged with a great title and cover image that features a lone lit window in a New York skyscraper! Helen has incredible backing on the record - a small combo that includes Charlie Mariano on alto sax, Don Fagerquist on trumpet, and Donn Trenner on piano - all gently sliding in behind Carr's blue vocals in a way that's similar to some of the Chris Connor work on Bethlehem from the same time. Titles include a near-perfect reading of 'Down In The Depths On The 90th Floor', plus 'Not Mine', 'Tulip Or Turnip', 'Moments Like This', 'I'm Glad There Is You', and 'Memory Of The Rain'.
Down In The Depths On The 90th Floor
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ReplyDeleteThanks for this Beauty !! Wonderful Songstress She was !!
ReplyDeleteWow! I much prefer arrangements and tempos on this one to those on the previously posted "Why Do I LoveYou." But the two albums taken together are one fine legacy even if, as I belive is the case, HC never recorded anything else. ("Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor" is a great cabaret number. It should have been recorded a lot more over the years. Her "Be Careful, It's my Heart" -- on the "Why Do I" album -- may now, for a while, be my number two favorite rendering of that great song after -- needless to say? -- the one by Bola de Nieve, in Havana, antes de la Revolución, on "El Inigualable Bola de Nieve." Now THERE is a dramatization of human vulnerability! Yes, I think Helen Carr is really good. But anyone who doesn't know Bola de Nieve's "Be Careful" should drop everything and download it from someplace or other immediately.)
ReplyDeleteI'm in the middle of an excellent autobiography of pianist arranger md Donn Trenner. Helen Carr was his first wife and I would love to hear what she sounded like. A re-upload of this and it's companion would be much appreciated.
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