Styles: Vocal
Year: 1955
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:01
Size: 165,5 MB
Art: Front
(2:50) 1. I’ll Remember April
(3:01) 2. Night and Day
(4:17) 3. I’ll Never Be the Same
(2:34) 4. Tea for Two
(3:40) 5. I’ll Get By
(2:35) 6. Out of Nowhere
(3:55) 7. Solitude
(1:47) 8. Just You, Just Me
(4:14) 9. I’m Yours
(2:46) 10. People Will Say We’re in Love
(3:48) 11. More Than You Know
(1:59) 12. Let There Be Love
(2:19) 13. Weep for the Boy
(2:11) 14. Moments Like This
(2:58) 15. Spring Is Here
(2:48) 16. ST. James Infirmary
(3:14) 17. My Ship
(2:05) 18. This Year’s Kisses
(3:03) 19. Moon Ray
(2:35) 20. Everything but You
(3:02) 21. Every Time
(2:52) 22. Blue Rain
(2:39) 23. I Don’t Know What Kind of Blues I’Ve Got
(3:37) 24. I Guess I’ll Have to Hang My Tears out to Dry
Thelma Gracen / Introducing Milli Vernon
Year: 1955
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:01
Size: 165,5 MB
Art: Front
(2:50) 1. I’ll Remember April
(3:01) 2. Night and Day
(4:17) 3. I’ll Never Be the Same
(2:34) 4. Tea for Two
(3:40) 5. I’ll Get By
(2:35) 6. Out of Nowhere
(3:55) 7. Solitude
(1:47) 8. Just You, Just Me
(4:14) 9. I’m Yours
(2:46) 10. People Will Say We’re in Love
(3:48) 11. More Than You Know
(1:59) 12. Let There Be Love
(2:19) 13. Weep for the Boy
(2:11) 14. Moments Like This
(2:58) 15. Spring Is Here
(2:48) 16. ST. James Infirmary
(3:14) 17. My Ship
(2:05) 18. This Year’s Kisses
(3:03) 19. Moon Ray
(2:35) 20. Everything but You
(3:02) 21. Every Time
(2:52) 22. Blue Rain
(2:39) 23. I Don’t Know What Kind of Blues I’Ve Got
(3:37) 24. I Guess I’ll Have to Hang My Tears out to Dry
Thelma Gracen
Just where the boundary lies between the singer of popular songs and the real jazz singer is very often difficult to delineate. Thelma Gracen’s name may not ring any bells for neither jazz fan nor pop addict, but don’t let that deter you. After enjoying a few of her songs, you will realize that she had what it takes to be not only a good singer, but a good jazz singer. She has the beat, the feeling, and that special inner understanding of a lyric that can make an indifferent song sound good, a good song sound great, and a great song sound the way it was meant to sound.
Introducing Milli Vernon
Before this recording session, Jazz singer Milli Vernon was virtually unknown, and for good reason. She had served her apprenticeship singing with various bands under the name Pat Cameron, and on club dates in the New York area for about six years. Her voice was pretty and expressive, and she had a strong sense of time, good intonation and a kind of flexible, intimate quality to her voice that makes her sound like no other. For her first album, Milli was backed beautifully by Dave McKenna, Jimmy Raney, Wyatt Ruther, Jo Jones, and on all but three of the tracks by Ruby Braff as well, in a collection of seldom recorded tunes which include Artie Shaws’s moody Moon Ray. https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/thelma-gracen-milli-vernon-albums/46591-thelma-gracen-introducing-milli-vernon-2-lp-on-1-cd.html
Personnel: Thelma Gracen, Milli Vernon (vcl), Ruby Braff (tp), Georgie Auld (ts), Quentin Anderson (tb), Lou Levy, Dave McKenna (p), Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney (g), Joe Comfort, Wyatt Rhuter (b), Sid Bulkin, Jo Jones (d)
Just where the boundary lies between the singer of popular songs and the real jazz singer is very often difficult to delineate. Thelma Gracen’s name may not ring any bells for neither jazz fan nor pop addict, but don’t let that deter you. After enjoying a few of her songs, you will realize that she had what it takes to be not only a good singer, but a good jazz singer. She has the beat, the feeling, and that special inner understanding of a lyric that can make an indifferent song sound good, a good song sound great, and a great song sound the way it was meant to sound.
Introducing Milli Vernon
Before this recording session, Jazz singer Milli Vernon was virtually unknown, and for good reason. She had served her apprenticeship singing with various bands under the name Pat Cameron, and on club dates in the New York area for about six years. Her voice was pretty and expressive, and she had a strong sense of time, good intonation and a kind of flexible, intimate quality to her voice that makes her sound like no other. For her first album, Milli was backed beautifully by Dave McKenna, Jimmy Raney, Wyatt Ruther, Jo Jones, and on all but three of the tracks by Ruby Braff as well, in a collection of seldom recorded tunes which include Artie Shaws’s moody Moon Ray. https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/thelma-gracen-milli-vernon-albums/46591-thelma-gracen-introducing-milli-vernon-2-lp-on-1-cd.html
Personnel: Thelma Gracen, Milli Vernon (vcl), Ruby Braff (tp), Georgie Auld (ts), Quentin Anderson (tb), Lou Levy, Dave McKenna (p), Barney Kessel, Jimmy Raney (g), Joe Comfort, Wyatt Rhuter (b), Sid Bulkin, Jo Jones (d)
Thelma Gracen / Introducing Milli Vernon
I just requested this and here it is. Thank you so very much. Milli was a friend and I often played bass for her in the Catskill hotels. She didn't really like her singing on this record but she loved Dave McKenna. Her son is a great trumpet player Dave Zalud.
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DeleteThank you so much for posting this Giullia and Eric for requesting, otherwise I would never have know about either vocalists. What a superb album. It always amazes me how people with so much talent can remain little known. I love female singers from this era, Millie could easily have been as well known as Joe Stafford, Chris Connor or Keely Smith (to pick three big names for example) but perhaps she focussed on live performances as do some lesser known modern day artists. I could go on.... Thanks Eric. Best wishes, Dave (DJ38).
ReplyDeleteThank you as always Dave!
DeleteAnother great album of music Giullia, Thank you so much, Roger.
ReplyDeleteThank you Roger!
DeleteThis one is much better than the first one available here. It's sad to think that these talented women of the past had only 1 record at their time.
ReplyDeleteMerci Mario B!
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