Time: 64:33
Size: 147.8 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2018
Art: Front
[5:04] 1. The Great City
[4:43] 2. To Wisdom The Prize
[3:34] 3. Love Is A Losing Game
[5:09] 4. Let Me Love You
[4:26] 5. Tanto Amor
[5:29] 6. The Old Country
[3:08] 7. Inside A Silent Tear
[5:07] 8. El Ritmo
[4:54] 9. Better Days
[6:16] 10. Ármame
[4:51] 11. Open Your Eyes
[6:53] 12. We're Still Friends
[4:54] 13. Todo Tiene Su Final
On her lovely and coolly sensual new recording, Ármame, vocalist Lauren Henderson delivers an eclectic set of jazz, Latin jazz, and other styles in a program reflecting her African-American and Caribbean heritage and her omnivorous musical tastes. Produced by veteran broadcaster and Sirius/XM jazz host Mark Ruffin, the CD was released March 30 on her new label, Brontosaurus Records.
The album’s title translates as “Arm Me” (as from a broken heart), and the subtitle “Songs of Love and Loss” provides insight into Henderson’s repertoire choices. In addition to premiering three new originals, the vocalist adds to her already impressive credentials as a deft interpreter of others’ songs with heartfelt arrangements of “Love Is a Losing Game” by Amy Winehouse, Blossom Dearie’s heartbreaking classic “Inside a Silent Tear,” and Donny Hathaway’s “We’re Still Friends.” The two songs on which Terri Lyne Carrington sings backup vocals—“To Wisdom the Prize,” by Larry Willis, and “Better Days,” a nod to Chaka Khan, who’s a favorite singer of Henderson’s—are a particular highlight. “There’s this special, natural thing about how our voices go together,” Henderson says of working with Carrington.
One of Henderson’s major influences, Shirley Horn, is represented by two mid-tempo selections from that master of restraint’s songbook: Curtis Lewis’s “The Great City,” a onetime Nancy Wilson vehicle Henderson personalized with Spanish lyrics, and Bart Howard’s “Let Me Love You,” which was also recorded by Johnny Hartman. “I’ve always loved Shirley Horn’s delivery,” says Henderson. “There are a lot of layers to her singing.”
Ármame is anchored by the great young pianist Sullivan Fortner, a friend and colleague since Lauren first arrived in New York. “Not all pianists are as good playing with singers as they are working as solo artists,” she says. “He is.” Bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Joe Saylor of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert round out the rhythm section; the CD also features a strong set of soloists in alto saxophonist Godwin Louis, trumpeter Josh Evans, and guitarist Nick Tannura, plus percussionist Nanny Assis.
Lauren Henderson was born on November 5, 1986 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a town outside of Salem. Her father, of African-American and Caribbean ancestry, and her mother, the daughter of immigrants from Panama and Montserrat, are lovers of jazz and Latin music and exposed their daughter to these and other genres when she was growing up. ~Terri Hinte
The album’s title translates as “Arm Me” (as from a broken heart), and the subtitle “Songs of Love and Loss” provides insight into Henderson’s repertoire choices. In addition to premiering three new originals, the vocalist adds to her already impressive credentials as a deft interpreter of others’ songs with heartfelt arrangements of “Love Is a Losing Game” by Amy Winehouse, Blossom Dearie’s heartbreaking classic “Inside a Silent Tear,” and Donny Hathaway’s “We’re Still Friends.” The two songs on which Terri Lyne Carrington sings backup vocals—“To Wisdom the Prize,” by Larry Willis, and “Better Days,” a nod to Chaka Khan, who’s a favorite singer of Henderson’s—are a particular highlight. “There’s this special, natural thing about how our voices go together,” Henderson says of working with Carrington.
One of Henderson’s major influences, Shirley Horn, is represented by two mid-tempo selections from that master of restraint’s songbook: Curtis Lewis’s “The Great City,” a onetime Nancy Wilson vehicle Henderson personalized with Spanish lyrics, and Bart Howard’s “Let Me Love You,” which was also recorded by Johnny Hartman. “I’ve always loved Shirley Horn’s delivery,” says Henderson. “There are a lot of layers to her singing.”
Ármame is anchored by the great young pianist Sullivan Fortner, a friend and colleague since Lauren first arrived in New York. “Not all pianists are as good playing with singers as they are working as solo artists,” she says. “He is.” Bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Joe Saylor of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert round out the rhythm section; the CD also features a strong set of soloists in alto saxophonist Godwin Louis, trumpeter Josh Evans, and guitarist Nick Tannura, plus percussionist Nanny Assis.
Lauren Henderson was born on November 5, 1986 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a town outside of Salem. Her father, of African-American and Caribbean ancestry, and her mother, the daughter of immigrants from Panama and Montserrat, are lovers of jazz and Latin music and exposed their daughter to these and other genres when she was growing up. ~Terri Hinte
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