Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:24
Size: 92.5 MB
Styles: Jazz-country vocals
Year: 2002
Art: Front
[3:55] 1. It's Easy To Remember
[4:01] 2. Sweet Lorraine
[3:14] 3. Where The Blue Of The Night (Meets The Gold Of The Day)
[3:32] 4. I Apologize
[4:14] 5. Smile
[3:49] 6. Nature Boy
[4:06] 7. I Surrender, Dear
[3:20] 8. Unforgettable
[2:17] 9. Pennies From Heaven
[4:17] 10. Pretend
[3:34] 11. My Melancholy Baby
Although not really a jazz singer, Herb Jeffries was the last surviving member of the 1940 Duke Ellington Orchestra and a fine interpreter of swing songs and ballads. He performed with Erskine Tate in the early '30s, Earl Hines (1931-1934), and Blanche Calloway, before becoming the first black cowboy actor in a series of '30s Westerns. He gained his greatest fame while with Ellington (1940-1942), having a big hit in "Flamingo." Jeffries, who recorded with Sidney Bechet in 1940, worked as a single artist after leaving Ellington in 1942, recording on an occasional basis and remaining active into the mid-'90s. He died, reportedly of heart failure, on May 25, 2014 in West Hills, California. ~bio by Scott Yanow
Easy To Remember