Jeri Southern - Jeri Southern Blue Note, Chicago, March 1956

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:17
Size: 158,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:01)  1. I Hadn't Anyone Till You - Live
(0:23)  2. Jeri Introduces Her Trio Members - Live
(2:33)  3. Mad About the Boy - Live
(2:19)  4. You Better Go Now - Live
(3:19)  5. I'm in Love with the Honorable Mr. So and So - Live
(2:16)  6. Dancing on the Ceiling - Live
(2:18)  7. I Get a Kick out of You - Live
(3:33)  8. Too Late Now - Instrumental, Live
(4:18)  9. This Can't Be Love - Live
(3:30) 10. Miss Johnson Phoned Again Today - Live
(4:15) 11. One Day I Wrote His Name Upon the Sand - Live
(3:56) 12. It's De-Lovely - Live
(3:24) 13. September in the Rain - Live
(3:49) 14. When I Fall in Love - Live
(2:09) 15. Every Time - Live
(3:49) 16. He Was Too Good to Me - Live
(2:55) 17. Someone to Watch over Me - Live
(3:05) 18. Scarlet Ribbons - Unaccompanied Vocal, Live
(4:45) 19. Too Marvelous for Words - Live
(4:19) 20. Something Wonderful - Live
(3:10) 21. I've Got a Crush on You - Live

It’s a shame that pianist and vocalist Jeri Southern’s self-truncated career has left her a mere footnote in the history of jazz singing-for she ranked among the most gifted and compelling artists of the 1950s, blending the cool-school sangfroid of Chris Connor with the purr of Peggy Lee and the sophisticated sultriness of Julie London. (All the while she proved equally impressive behind a Steinway, with shades of Nat Cole, Art Tatum and Erroll Garner.) Southern released a dozen albums, all for major labels-Decca, Capitol, Roulette-before her chronic stage fright got the better of her and she retired from performing in 1962, still in her mid-30s. Her slim but stellar output included just one live LP, 1959’s At the Crescendo. At last, a quarter-century after her death, comes this 70-minute session, captured with stunning quality at Chicago’s Blue Note in early 1956. Alongside a pair of house-band stalwarts-bassist Al Bruno and drummer Dominic Simonetta-she navigates a sterling playlist: Noël Coward, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner, the Gershwins and a stunning, a cappella “Scarlet Ribbons.” Across her career’s dozen years, Southern also carved a unique niche, specializing in vaguely scandalous romantic mini-sagas. That enticing peculiarity is winningly exercised here, as she sketches the angst-driven drama of “Miss Johnson Phoned Again Today,” “One Day I Wrote His Name Upon the Sand,” “I’m in Love With the Honorable Mr. So and So” and her sole signature hit, the edge-of-sin “You Better Go Now.”~ Christopher Loudon https://jazztimes.com/reviews/albums/jeri-southern-blue-note-chicago-march-1956/

Jeri Southern Blue Note, Chicago, March 1956

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