Ann Burton - It Might As Well Be Love

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2023
Time: 33:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 76,6 MB
Art: Front

(3:55) 1. Sooner Or Later
(2:41) 2. This Is New
(4:50) 3. Nobody's Heart
(2:04) 4. What'll Do
(3:50) 5. I Like You, You're Nice
(3:35) 6. Humpty Dumpty Heart
(4:43) 7. After You
(3:24) 8. You Fascinate Me So
(3:59) 9. It Might As Well Be Spring

Ann Burton (March 4, 1933 - November 29, 1989, Amsterdam) is the pseudonym of Johanna Rafalowicz (between 1938 and 1971: Johanna de Paauw), a Dutch jazz singer.

Ann Burton started her career as a singer in a quintet in Luxembourg and she started off by singing in the Doris Day style. Records of Billy Holiday drastically changed her style. Back in Holland she performed in a jazz repertoire with the trio of Frans Elsen. When Ramses Chaffy founded his “Shaffy Chantant” , Ann Burton was one of the first whom he contracted as a singer. In a long engagement in this group Ann became known at a larger audience.

Her breakthrough came in 1968, working with John J. Vis with whom she made her debute as Blue Burton, accompanied by the trio of Louis van Dijk. With John Vis she also made the albums Ballads and Burton and Ann Burton sings for lovers and other strangers. Further success had to wait till 1973, when she went to Japan, which was the land of the rising sun for her, because in Tokio, Ann Burton became the second most loved Jazz-singer, next to Ella Fitzgerald.https://www.last.fm/music/Ann+Burton/+wiki

It Might As Well Be Love

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Ann Burton - New York State of Mind

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:08
Size: 95,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:08) 1. New York State of Mind
(2:56) 2. You Started Something
(4:22) 3. I Can Dream, Can't I?
(4:13) 4. All or Nothing At All
(3:44) 5. Come in From the Rain
(4:01) 6. Tell Me More and More and Then Some
(3:36) 7. The Night We Called It a Day
(4:34) 8. Something So Right
(3:35) 9. All Too Soon
(4:59) 10. Never Never Land

Ann Burton (March 4, 1933, Amsterdam – November 29, 1989, Amsterdam) is the pseudonym of Johanna Rafalowicz (between 1938 and 1971: Johanna de Paauw), a Dutch jazz singer. In about 1930 the mother of Ann Burton (pseudonym of Johanna Rafalowicz) immigrated from Poland to the Netherlands. Ann was born in Netherlands and when she was 3 years old, in 1933, her mother married a diamond worker.

In 1938 Johanna's surname was changed to her stepfather's and she became Johanna de Paauw, which was her official name until 1971, when she again changed it back to Rafalowicz. During World War II her family faced Jewish persecution under German occupation and she went into hiding while her mother and stepfather survived the Nazi concentration camps. However, the family became disrupted when her (step) parents were deprived of parental power. Johanna, who had Polish nationality, acquired Dutch nationality in 1957.

Johanna had never had singing lessons, but she had listened to American singers like Doris Day, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. Later, Billie Holiday and Shirley Horn influenced her. She wanted to get into the music world and so in about 1955 she took the name Ann Burton inspired by the Welsh actor Richard Burton. Ann Burton began her career as singer by a quintet in Luxemburg. She sang with bandleader Johnny Millstonford and performed in clubs with the orchestra of Ted Powder for American soldiers in Germany.

In the summer of 1958 she sang in the quartet of pianist Pia Beck in Scheveningen and in 1960 they toured with saxophonist Piet Noordijk in Spain and Morocco. Back in the Netherlands she sang again in Scheveningen. In 1965, she made an EP for Decca Records with the nl:Frans Elsen Trio. Later she joined Ramses Shaffy's group Shaffy Chantant. In the late sixties she was noticed by John J. Vis, the director of the record company Artone, and he produced her first album "Blue Burton" in 1967. On this record the trio of Louis van Dijk, de:Jacques Schols and nl:John Engels, supplemented with de:Piet Noordijk, accompanied her. She became popular and the album received an Edison Award in 1969. A few more records in 1969 and 1972 were released in collaboration with John Vis.

In 1973, she toured Japan, where she became the most popular jazz singer, second only to Ella Fitzgerald. She made numerous albums with Masahiko Sato and Ken McCarthy and others. In the late seventies she worked in New York, where she made several albums, some of which were with Grady Tate and Buster Williams. Singer Helen Merrill produced the albums. For "New York State of Mind" Burton also received an Edison award. In the eighties she founded her own record label, Burtone, that produced her albums. In the period 1986–1988 she taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory. Ann Burton died at the age of 56 due to throat cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Burton

Personnel: Ann Buton / vocals; Michael Renzi / piano; Buster Williams / bass; Grady Tate / drums

New York State of Mind

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Ann Burton - Everything Happens

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1988
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 38:42
Size: 89,9 MB
Art: Front

(2:29) 1. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
(4:06) 2. Everything Happens
(2:45) 3. Gentleman Friend
(2:43) 4. Dreamer
(2:37) 5. It Don't Mean A Thing
(4:03) 6. Time Was
(3:47) 7. Again
(4:19) 8. Nice And Easy
(3:43) 9. I Won't Dance
(2:42) 10. That's All
(3:31) 11. Nobody Else But Me
(1:51) 12. Afterthoughts

Ann Burton started her career as a singer in a quintet in Luxembourg and she started off by singing in the Doris Day style. Records of Billy Holiday drastically changed her style. Back in Holland she performed in a jazz repertoire with the trio of Frans Elsen. When Ramses Chaffy founded his “Shaffy Chantant” , Ann Burton was one of the first whom he contracted as a singer. In a long engagement in this group Ann became known at a larger audience.

Her breakthrough came in 1968, working with John J. Vis with whom she made her debute as Blue Burton, accompanied by the trio of Louis van Dijk. With John Vis she also made the albums Ballads and Burton and Ann Burton sings for lovers and other strangers. Further success had to wait till 1973, when she went to Japan, which was the land of the rising sun for her, because in Tokio, Ann Burton became the second most loved Jazz-singer, next to Ella Fitzgerald.Anneke Muller (1953) tried to get the exclusive Ann Burton closer to the public by writing this book over her life. The story also pictures an image of the way in which Ann maintained herself in the roaring and constant changing world of Jazz. https://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/ann-burton

Personnel: Vocals – Ann Burton; Bass – Harry Emmery; Drums – Frits Landesbergen; Piano – Rob Agerbeek; Trumpet – Ack Van Rooyen; Vibraphone – Frits Landesbergen

Everything Happens

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