Jeri Brown - Echoes: Live At Catalina Jazz Club

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:24
Size: 130,3 MB
Art: Front

(5:37) 1. Nothing Else but You
(3:51) 2. Echoes
(4:19) 3. All the Things You Are
(1:42) 4. Echo Thoughts
(6:56) 5. The Look of Love
(5:53) 6. I Thought About You
(1:40) 7. African Echo
(5:01) 8. Afro Blue
(8:48) 9. I Got Rhythm
(6:23) 10. No Moon At All
(6:08) 11. The Nearness of You

One of the top up-and-coming jazz singers of the 1990s, the Montreal-based Jeri Brown came from a musical family (her grandfather played sax and her uncle was a trumpeter). After growing up in St. Louis and graduating college, she toured Europe singing light opera and spirituals before switching to jazz. An excellent scat singer and an expressive interpreter of lyrics, Jeri Brown has recorded several excellent sets for Justin Time. ~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jeri-brown-mn0000270729/biography

Echoes: Live At Catalina Jazz Club

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Jeri Brown - April In Paris

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:52
Size: 130.2 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[4:39] 1. Gentle Piece
[4:03] 2. Once Upon A Summertime
[5:31] 3. The Twelfth Of Never
[6:19] 4. When April Comes Again
[8:51] 5. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
[4:12] 6. Morning Lovely
[5:35] 7. I Could Have Loved You
[4:44] 8. Summertime
[0:40] 9. As The Mist Leaves No Scar
[4:27] 10. Greensleeves
[7:47] 11. The Windmills Of Your Mind

Jeri Brown, who has emerged to become one of the top jazz singers of the 1990s, pays tribute to the passion of Paris on this CD without performing the title cut. Sticking to ballads (other than a medium-tempo "Summertime"), Brown's sensuous voice (particularly her low notes) are well suited to the complex material, which includes a song co-written with Kenny Wheeler ("Gentle Piece"), a pair of Michel Legrand numbers that add the effective accordion of Roberto De Brashov, a brief poem, a couple of standards and mostly high-quality obscurities. The music is atmospheric and sometimes haunting, swinging lightly and filled with subtle invention by the talented singer and her supportive trio. ~Scott Yanow

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Jeri Brown - I've Got Your Number

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:05
Size: 149,3 MB
Art: Front

( 5:19)  1. I've Got Your Number
( 5:49)  2. Midnight Sun
( 4:08)  3. Softly, As in Morning Sunrise
( 5:55)  4. The Nearness of You
( 8:34)  5. Joy
(12:24)  6. You Must Believe in Spring
( 8:22)  7. Echoes
( 6:15)  8. As Long as You're Living
( 8:16)  9. What Goes Around

The torch has been passed, Betty Carter is gone, and Jeri Brown is in line here and now. On this, her seventh CD for the Canadian Justin Time label, Brown continues to mature as a jazz interpreter, and proves a cherry picker in terms of choosing world class back-up. As on her previous CD "Zaius, " she's got John Hicks on piano throughout, Curtis Lundy and Wali Muhammad on four cuts, Avery Sharpe and Sangoma Everett for another three on bass and drums respectively. David Murray plays tenor sax on two tracks, Don Braden on another one, and two selections reprise the appearance as on "Zaius" of vocalist Leon Thomas. The difference is that these duels with Thomas are released posthumously following his untimely death in mid-1999. 

Brown's voice is getting decidedly better and better, he lower register center profoundly richening, and her confidence building. You should further appreciate in Brown, traces of Sarah Vaughan's range and expressiveness, Ella Fitzgerald's clear enunciation, and Carter and Ella's super scatting powers. This combination produces a singer unlike any other on the current scene. Brown's eminent scatability is fully pronounced on the title track, the wild 5/4 duet with Thomas and Braden plus ensemble on "Long As You're Living," and in a more undercurrent, low down arena with sympatico ostinato bass (Lundy) on "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise." There's a 12 1/2 minute, lugubrious slow version of "You Must Believe In Spring," seperate verses sung in French & English with a long Hicks solo, a subtle rubato format for Brown and Hicks only during "The Nearness Of You," and other beautifully turned out ballads "Midnight Sun" (w/Murray, ) and the closer "What Goes Around."

Murray's other feature, the Gerry Niewood waltz "Joy" has Brown & the saxophonist in a surreal unison setting that bears a second or third listening. The cherry-on-the sundae is the modal, Coltrane-ish Thomas piece "Echoes," as they trade yodels, yelps, oohs and ahhhs. This CD is easily as tasteful and skilled as her others, but not yet her magnum opus. She's getting close, and has surpassed others, including several more popular singers in term of heart, soul and warmth. ~ Michael G.Nastos   http://www.allmusic.com/album/ive-got-your-number-mw0000240703.

Personnel: Jeri Brown, Leon Thomas (vocals); Don Braden, David Murray (saxophone); John Hicks (piano); Curtis Lundy (bass); Sangoma Everett, Wali Muhammad (drums). Personnel: Jeri Brown (vocals); Leon Thomas (vocals); David Murray, Don Braden (tenor saxophone); Hicks (piano); Muhammad, Sangoma Everett (drums).

I've Got Your Number

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