Ray Brown Trio - Some Of My Best Friends Are...Singers

Styles: Contemporary Jazz, Vocal
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:32
Size: 128,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:19) 1. I Thought About You
(3:24) 2. Poor Butterfly
(5:30) 3. More Than You Know
(2:25) 4. Little Boy
(5:37) 5. But Beautiful
(3:19) 6. At Long Last Love
(5:57) 7. Skylark
(6:15) 8. Cherokee
(4:16) 9. (There Is) No Greater Love
(4:32) 10. Imagination
(3:36) 11. The Party's Over
(5:15) 12. The Perfect Blues

What does a bass player do when he's recording an album as a leader? Surely not an hour's worth of bass solos! Ray Brown solved the bass player's dilemma with a series of recordings under the Some of My Best Friends Are... heading. This 1998 release is the third in the series, following the earlier Some of My Best Friends Are...Piano Players and Some of My Best Friends Are...Sax Players, and it's a gem. Featuring a sextet of fine vocalists, ranging from the well-established to the unknown, this CD is a class act from beginning to end. The rising jazz vocal superstar of the late '90s, Diana Krall, is showcased to great effect on "I Thought About You" and "Little Boy." Well-established female vocal veterans Etta Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Marlena Shaw deliver superb performances, soulfully giving master lessons in the art of singing. The lone male singer spotlighted here, Kevin Mahogany, wraps his smooth baritone around the ballad "Skylark," and swings gently on "The Party's Over."~Jim Newsonhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/some-of-my-best-friends-aresingers-mw0000042710

Personnel: Ray Brown – double bass; Geoff Keezer – piano; Gregory Hutchinson – drums; Antonio Hart – alto saxophone; Russell Malone – guitar

Some Of My Best Friends Are...Singers

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