Anne Phillips - Anne Phillips: Live at the Jazz Bakery

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:26
Size: 140,2 MB
Art: Front

(4:48) 1. I'm Gonna Lay My Heart on the Line
(0:07) 2. Anne Talks to Audience First Time
(3:51) 3. Born to Be Blue
(4:34) 4. Easy Street
(7:01) 5. Anne Talks to Audience Second Time
(2:10) 6. Watching You Watching Me
(4:33) 7. Hey Look Where I Am
(5:20) 8. New York Night Time Blues
(1:54) 9. Anne Talks to Audience Third Time
(3:23) 10. To Make Them Like Me
(1:30) 11. Anne Talks to Audience Fourth Time
(5:02) 12. Another Day Without Him
(0:32) 13. Anne Talks to Audience Fifth Time
(4:44) 14. After All These Years
(5:09) 15. Embraceable You
(5:41) 16. There Will Never Be Another You

Anne Phillips has had a life in music if not always on record. Her career as a jazz singer began as a high schooler in rural Pennsylvania. At Oberlin, she DJ’d a radio show and with the jazz club put on the first Brubeck at Oberlin concert. At 19, in 1954, she moved to New York City at what turned out to be a very auspicious time. She quickly found work six nights a week as a singer in the burgeoning nightclub scene and as a demo singer for aspiring songwriters. In 1959 she recorded an album, Born to be Blue, that continues to be a collector favorite. Her industry was soon disrupted by rock ‘n roll and she wouldn’t record another album under her name until 2000. Her recording career may have paused but her involvement in music never did. She worked as a singer, choral arranger, conductor, and helped produce many national television and radio commercials. She’s written a jazz opera, Bending Towards the Light A Jazz Nativity, which is performed annually in several cities with performers including Lionel Hampton, Dave Brubeck, and Tito Puente. Her non-profit, Kindred Spirits, engages children’s jazz choirs in learning Songbook material.

She’s also composed features in the classical realm and is on the faculty of the Jazz Department at NYU. Since returning to recording in 2000 she’s released several solo albums, often joined by personal friends like Marian McPartland and Dave Brubeck. 60 years after her debut album she returns to some of the same material for her latest, Live at the Jazz Bakery, released this October. The set is intermixed with stories from her years in showbusiness, and compositions she squirreled away while her career focused on songwriter demos, commercial jingles, and backup singing.Comparing 1959’s Born to be Blue with this set her voice has held up remarkably well. Her accompaniment is jazzier now than it was then, led by husband Bob Kindred on tenor sax and joined by Roger Kellaway on piano and Chuck Berghoffer on bass. Her original compositions make up most of the album with a couple of standards thrown in. Her writing captures that mid-century moment when songs and singers were appreciated. This intimate and warm album, with its engaging monologues peppered with recognizable names spanning a half-century, feels like meeting someone special. If like me you are inspired to investigate her other creative work you won’t be disappointed. https://syncopatedtimes.com/anne-phillips-live-at-the-jazz-bakery/

Anne Phillips: Live at the Jazz Bakery

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Anne Phillips - Ballet Time

Styles: Vocal Jazz 
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:39
Size: 153,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:12)  1. Ballet Time
(5:32)  2. I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before
(4:02)  3. I've Got Just About Everything
(4:43)  4. Here's to Life
(4:51)  5. In Your Own Sweet Way
(3:39)  6. Doubletalk
(3:16)  7. You Are There
(4:01)  8. Late Late Show
(3:44)  9. In the Days of Our Love
(4:57) 10. I Never Went Away
(3:12) 11. I Was Doing All Right
(5:37) 12. Embracable You
(5:53) 13. Romancing Ketchikan
(4:50) 14. New York Night Time Blues
(5:02) 15. Fried Bananas

Vocalist Anne Phillips may not be a familiar name to many jazz fans, though since she began her professional career in the early 1960s as a member of the Ray Charles Singers on the Perry Como Show, she has worked in many musical formats as a singer, composer, arranger, conductor and producer. This project was a special labor of love, as she recruited a number of old friends that she met along the way and recruited them to appear on one track apiece with her. Her engaging vocal duet with Bob Dorough (who complements their vocals with some lively piano) of his "I've Got Just About Everything" is a playful affair. Phillips lays a bit behind the beat effectively in spots in Dave Brubeck's loping treatment of his timeless "In Your Own Sweet Way," while she captures the nostalgic magic of pianist Dave Frishberg's lyrics in his ballad (with music by Johnny Mandel) "You Are There." Marian McPartland is on hand for her haunting ballad "In the Days of Our Love," with Phillips bringing out the essence of Peggy Lee's lyrics. Phillips' duet with tenor saxophonist Bob Kindred (her husband) of "Embraceable You" is full of humor, as is "Double Talk" a duet with organist Larry Goldings that has a campy lyric in the style of Annie Ross. There's never a dull moment in this delightful musical scrapbook. ~ Ken Dryden http://www.allmusic.com/album/ballet-time-mw0001225843

She sings with jazz greats Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Roger Kellaway, Dave Frishberg, Bob Dorough and more...

Ballet Time

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Anne Phillips - Born To Be Blue

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:30
Size: 79.0 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1959/2000
Art: Front

[3:34] 1. Born To Be Blue
[1:53] 2. Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Year
[3:22] 3. Easy Street
[2:46] 4. For Heaven Sake
[2:34] 5. It Could Happen To You
[2:46] 6. You Don't Know What Love Is
[2:47] 7. Lonelyville
[2:36] 8. I've Got To Pass Your House
[3:14] 9. A Stranger In Town
[3:55] 10. I Don't Want To Walk Without You
[1:51] 11. There Will Never Be Another You
[3:08] 12. When Sunny Gets Blue

b. Anne Latta Dinsmore, 17 February 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Growing up near Readong, Pennsylvania, Phillips ‘played piano by ear non-stop as a child’, later studying piano and voice. She attended Oberlin College, singing in her freshman year with the college big band. She had her own radio show, singing and playing on the college station, and sang with a college trio that was the supporting act on the occasion of Dave Brubeck’s famous Brubeck At Oberlin concert. After attending the New England Conservatory of Music, she relocated to New York City. There, she performed on a number of live television shows as a member of two of the best known choirs, the Ray Charles Singers and the Norman Luboff Choir. She also sang demonstrations for songwriters such as Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Carole King, Neil Diamond and Paul Simon.

After making her recording debut in 1959 for Roulette Records, with Born To Be Blue, the marked shift in popular music patterns resulted in a highly successful career in the studios. Phillips now became one of the most respected and in-demand studio performers in the music business in New York City. Throughout the 60s, she sang in backing groups on countless recording sessions, wrote, arranged and produced commercials for the American Gas Association, Kent Cigarettes, Campbell’s Soup, Sheraton Hotels and Pepsi Cola. Artists with whom she worked during these years include the Sammy Davis Jnr. , the Four Tops, Leslie Gore, Linda Ronstadt, Mahalia Jackson, Wilson Pickett and Martha And The Vandellas. She formed her own choir for recording and broadcasting, and became music director at St. Bartholomew’s Church on Park Avenue. She wrote book, lyrics and music for The Great Grey Ghost Of Old Spook Lane, a children’s show that has been produced by many theatrical groups and, with her husband, tenor saxophonist, Bob Kindred, created Bending Towards The Light … A Jazz Nativity, the Christmas story told through the medium of jazz. This work is produced annually in New York and elsewhere in America and has featured guests such as Brubeck, Al Grey, Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente and Clark Terry. She and her husband also operate a non-profit organization, the Kindred Spirit Foundation. Additionally, from the early 90s onwards, Phillips has been on the adjunct faculty of the Jazz and Contemporary Music Department at New York University, where she arranges for and directs the NYU Jazz Choir.

When she returned to an own-name recording session in 2000, it was her songs that demonstrated vividly how attuned she is to the great qualities of American popular song. All are gems, which deserve a place in the repertoires of all singers who admire music of quality. She has arranged and/or produced recording sessions by Kindred (That Kindred Spirit and Hidden Treasures). A fluid, melodious voice allied to intelligent reading of lyrics makes Phillips one of the outstanding performers of popular song of her day.

Born To Be Blue

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