Maxine Sullivan & Scott Hamilton Quintet - Uptown

Styles: Vocal And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1985
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:21
Size: 106,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:34) 1. You Were Meant for Me
(5:10) 2. I Thought About You
(3:49) 3. Goody Goody
(5:22) 4. Something to Remember You By
(5:54) 5. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
(3:50) 6. You're a Lucky Guy
(3:48) 7. Georgia on My Mind
(4:21) 8. By Myself
(4:47) 9. I Got a Right to Sing the Blues
(5:41) 10. Just One of Those Things

The first of her two Concord CDs, this set features veteran singer Maxine Sullivan performing ten of her favorite songs, all of which originated from the swing era or before. Sullivan sounds quite happy to be joined by tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton's very complementary quintet (which also includes guitarist Chris Flory and pianist John Bunch). The best among the familiar songs are Maxine's renditions of "I Thought About You," "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams," "By Myself" and "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues."~Scott Yanowhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/release/uptown-mr0001470229

Personnel: Maxine Sullivan - vocals; Scott Hamilton - tenor saxophone; John Bunch - piano; Phil Flanigan - bass; Chris Flory - guitar; Chuck Riggs - drums

Uptown

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Maxine Sullivan - The Great Songs from the Cotton Club

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2014
File: MP3@192K/s
Time: 47:26
Size: 67,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:09) 1. Happy As the Day Is Long
(3:38) 2. You Gave Me Ev'rything but Love
(2:39) 3. As Long As I Live
(4:10) 4. Raisin' the Rent
(3:39) 5. Neath the Pale Cuban Moon
(5:04) 6. Ill Wind
(2:57) 7. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
(2:14) 8. I Love a Parade
(2:54) 9. Harlem Holiday
(2:39) 10. Get Yourself a New Broom
(3:21) 11. Stormy Weather
(3:26) 12. In the Silence of the Night
(3:18) 13. That's What I Hate About Love
(2:17) 14. Primitive Prima Donna
(2:55) 15. I've Got the World on a String

“Maxine Sullivan was in a class by herself. Sullivan gave her all to a song, and in so doing made the song a celebration of the best in classic American popular music rather than an occasion to show off her vocal prowess. It is one of her best albums, and should be heard by all.”~ Lawrence Schulman, ARSC Journal

Back in print for the first time in more than a decade, Harbinger Records’ award-winning album, MAXINE SULLIVAN: THE GREAT SONGS FROM THE COTTON CLUB BY HAROLD ARLEN AND TED KOEHLER is making it’s long-awaited debut on iTunes and other music download sites. Nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Vocalist and winner of the NAIRD award in the same category, the album features many previously unrecorded songs by the famous songwriting team of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. In addition to the first-time recordings, Sullivan interprets such standards as “Stormy Weather” and “Buds Won’t Bud” with her patented gently swinging style. Hailed on many 10 Best lists, Great Songs from the Cotton Club, brought Maxine Sullivan’s 50-year career to a highpoint and led the way to two more highly regarded recordings for Harbinger, Together: Maxine Sullivan Sings Jule Styne and The Lady’s in Love with You: Maxine Sullivan Sings the Music of Burton Lane.

Maxine Sullivan got her start at a remarkably named nightclub, The Benjamin Harrison Literary Club, in 1934. She sang with Claude Thornhill’s band and had a smash hit with her recording of the Scottish standard, “Loch Lomond.” In the ‘40s, she and her husband, jazz musician John Kirby, became the first black jazz stars to have a regular radio program. She appeared in the films St. Louis Blues and Going Places, the latter in which she and Louis Armstrong introduced the song “Jeepers Creepers.” She and Armstrong had a long friendship and appeared together in the fabled Cotton Club and on Broadway in the musical Swinging the Dream in which Maxine introduced the jazz standard, “Darn That Dream.” She later appeared on Broadway in the show My Old Friends for which she received a Tony Award nomination.

After retiring to raise her children, Maxine created The House That Jazz Built in the South Bronx where she supported programs encouraging young talent and introducing children to the world of jazz. In 1967 she returned to recordings with jazzman Bob Wilbur. Her three albums for Harbinger Records came soon thereafter giving new audiences a chance to hear one of the greatest jazz singers of all time. This long-awaited reissue brings this tremendous album to her legion of fans and to a new generation who can rejoice in the great vocals and great songs of the Cotton Club era. https://www.musicaltheaterproject.org/maxine-sullivan-the-great-songs-from-the-cotton-club.html

Personnel: Vocals – Maxine Sullivan; Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Phil Bodner; Bass – Phil Flanagan; Drums – Jackie Williams ; Guitar – Marty Grosz; Piano – Keith Ingham

The Great Songs from the Cotton Club

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Maxine Sullivan - Moments Like This

Styles: Vocal, Swing
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:57
Size: 165,7 MB
Art: Front

(2:57) 1. Loch Lomond
(2:26) 2. I'm Coming Virginia
(2:42) 3. Annie Laurie
(3:04) 4. Blue Skies
(3:03) 5. Easy To Love
(3:02) 6. The Folks Who Live On The Hill
(2:56) 7. It's Wonderful
(3:05) 8. Moments Like This
(3:15) 9. Please Be Kind
(3:22) 10. Night And Day
(3:03) 11. Say It With A Kiss
(2:39) 12. I'm Happy About The Whole Thing
(2:44) 13. When Your Lover Has Gone
(2:22) 14. My Ideal
(3:06) 15. Everytime We Say Goodbye
(3:07) 16. This Heart Of Mine
(2:49) 17. I'm The Caring Kind
(2:57) 18. Mad About The Boy
(2:51) 19. I Can't Get Started
(2:44) 20. Skylark
(2:51) 21. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(2:07) 22. Taking My Time
(3:00) 23. Summertime
(2:54) 24. Legalize My Name
(2:38) 25. Miss Otis Regrets

Maxine Sullivan had very little formal music training. She was discovered while singing at the Benjamin Harrison Literary Club in Pittsburg by Gladys Mosier. Mosier was, in the mid 1930's, working in Ina Rae Hutton’s big band and an acquaitance of fellow pianist Claude Thornhill. She soon introduced her new find to Thornhill and as his protege', Maxine Sullivan made her first records in June of 1937, accompanied by the pianist's all-star band.

The critics at Metronome magazine received Maxine's first records warmly, giving the discs good ratings and reviews. Around the same time Maxine became the vocalist at The Onyx Club in New York. It was here that she formed both a music and personal partnership with bass-man John Kirby who she soon married. Kirby had worked with Fletcher Henderson in the early 1930’s as well as Henry Red Allen. A busy man in 1937, the stellar bassist recorded with Teddy Wilson, Willie The Lion Smith, Frankie Newton, Midge Williams, Charlie Barnet, and Lionel Hampton all prior to the first records he made with Maxine on August 6th, 1937 which also saw accompaniment from Thornhill on piano. Sullivan and Kirby remained married until 1941.

It was this first session with Kirby that proved to be both a blessing and a curse for Maxine Sullivan. It produced a hit record, a swing version of a Scottish folk song called Loch Lomond. Unfortunately it "typed" her and she depended on similar folk style performances for many subsequent records, despite her ability to adapt to other forms of Pop and jazz songs equally well. Her cool, soft, tone and subtle and intimate style was equally swinging on records like Nice Work If You Can Get It, Blue Skies, St Louis Blues, and Stop Your Breaking My Heart. Unfortunately there were a bevy of records like Darling Nellie Gray, Annie Laurie, Molly Malone and others that began to sound all very similar.

In 1940 Sullivan and Kirby were featured on the radio program Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm. They were the first black jazz stars to have their own weekly radio series. Sullivan and Kirby’s last shows together were in the fall of 1941 and were recorded by two different transcription companies, World and Associated. In the mid 1940s she was recorded with the bands of Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, and Jimmie Lunceford and can be heard singing mainly ballads with all three groups.

Aside from sessions with Ellis Larkins and Bob Haggart, her recorded output was little until 1955 and 1956. Finally recorded singing better material in the company of musicians like Dick Hyman, and old cohorts Buster Bailey, Charlie Shavers, and Russell Procope; Sullivan produced a series of sides that were her most exciting since her 1937 sessions. In the late 50’s she branched out to new areas of study, in nursing and playing valve trombone, which she played at numerous concerts and festivals in 1958. From 1958 to 1966 nursing took up her career. In ’66 she reemerged playing several festivals with her new husband pianist Cliff Jackson. From then until 1986 she continued to appear at festivals and can be heard with musicians from Doc Cheatham to Scott Hamilton. Her last recorded concert was at The Fujitsu-Concord Jazz festival held in Tokyo in September of 1986.

Maxine Sullivan appeared in the movies St. Louis Blues and Going Places, the latter opposite of Louis Armstrong. On stage, she was seen in Swingin’ The Dream in 1939, and Take A Giant Step in 1953. She toured Great Britain in 1948 and again in 1954. In her later concert appearances she traveled to France for several performances in 1984 and to Sweden many times beginning in 1975 and ending in 1984. Maxine Sullivan died in April of 1987, little more than one month short of her 76th birthday and just 8 months after her last recorded concert appearance. The last song she performed at the Fujitsu – Concord Jazz Festival and her last performance on record…was Loch Lomond. http://www.swingmusic.net/Sullivan_Maxine.html

Moments Like This

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Maxine Sullivan - We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 74:04
Size: 169.6 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz, Standards
Year: 1995/2015
Art: Front

[2:44] 1. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye
[2:24] 2. Someday Sweetheart
[2:50] 3. Exactly Like You
[2:49] 4. That Old Feeling
[2:34] 5. Miss Otis Regrets
[2:44] 6. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter
[3:58] 7. It's The Talk Of The Town
[2:44] 8. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
[2:48] 9. She's Funny That Way
[2:33] 10. St. Louis Blues
[2:53] 11. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
[2:09] 12. Legalize My Name
[2:22] 13. You Were Meant For Me
[3:29] 14. I'm Beginning To See The Light
[4:04] 15. I Thought About You
[2:36] 16. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea #2
[4:11] 17. I Got It Bad, And That Ain't Good
[3:55] 18. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime
[4:14] 19. Georgia On My Mind
[3:22] 20. Don't Get Around Much Any More
[2:19] 21. Skylark
[2:57] 22. What Is There To Say
[3:33] 23. I Didn't Know About You
[3:42] 24. Just One Of Those Things

Two former LPs are combined on this single CD. The subtle but always swinging singer Maxine Sullivan is heard on a very pleasing 1983 session in which she is joined by trumpeter Doc Cheatham (who sounds quite lyrical), the underrated clarinetist Herb Hall, pianist Red Richards, bassist Ike Isaacs and drummer Tom Martin. But good as that date is, it is the first half of this CD that is most memorable. Sullivan sounds exuberant while being inspired by the great cornetist Ernie Carson, Spencer Clark on baritone, pianist Art Hodes, bassist Johnny Haynes and drummer Martin. Carson takes many heated solos; Hodes is often rollicking, and Sullivan's voice is heard throughout in prime form -- she even takes a valve trombone solo on one song. Highlights include definitive versions of "We Just Couldn't say Goodbye," "Someday Sweetheart," "That Old Feeling" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea." In addition, there is a previously unreleased version of "It's the Talk of the Town" from Feb. 8, 1978, a very spontaneous performance with Hodes' band during an otherwise instrumental session. Highly recommended. ~Scott Yanow

We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye   

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Maxine Sullivan - Spring Isn't Everything

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:04
Size: 78.0 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 1989
Art: Front

[2:24] 1. Summer Night
[3:19] 2. You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
[2:48] 3. The More I See You
[2:58] 4. Cheerful Little Earful
[3:34] 5. I Only Have Eyes For You
[2:35] 6. Lulu's Back In Town
[2:25] 7. This Heart Of Mine
[2:06] 8. Devil May Care
[1:51] 9. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
[2:37] 10. Spring Isn't Everything
[2:14] 11. September In The Rain
[2:44] 12. I'll String Along With You
[2:23] 13. There Will Never Be Another You

Bass – Terry Peoples; Drums – Bill Stowe; Leader, Piano, Arranged By – Loonis McGlohon; Vibraphone – Jim Stack; Vocals – Maxine Sullivan. Recorded July 26 & 27, 1986.

Maxine Sullivan's final Audiophile recording (which has been reissued on CD) finds the 75-year-old singer (less than a year before her death) still in good voice. With accompaniment by pianist Loonis McGlohon, vibraphonist Jim Stack, bassist Terry Peoples and drummer Bill Stowe, Sullivan sings straightforward renditions of 11 Harry Warren songs with lyrics by Al Dubin, Mack Gordon, Ira Gershwin, Arthur Freed, Johnny Burke, Johnny Mercer and Ralph Blane. The interpretations are rather concise (from 1:51 to 3:35) and contain no real surprises, but Sullivan does bring joy to the lyrics. Among the tunes are "You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me," "Lulu's Back in Town," "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" and "I'll String Along With You." ~Scott Yanow

Spring Isn't Everything mc
Spring Isn't Everything zippy

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Maxine Sullivan - Swing Street: Original 1931-1939 Recordings

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 65:51
Size: 150.8 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:52] 1. Loch Lomond
[2:21] 2. I'm Coming Virginia
[2:37] 3. Annie Laurie
[2:58] 4. Betsy Blue Skies
[2:42] 5. Mighty Like The Blues
[2:36] 6. Woo-Woo
[2:56] 7. Hot String Bean
[2:49] 8. Jim Jam Stomp
[3:18] 9. I'm Crazy 'bout My Baby
[3:17] 10. Dragging My Heart Around
[2:32] 11. The Joint Is Jumpin'
[2:23] 12. Off Time
[2:36] 13. Choo-Choo
[2:48] 14. The Wail Of The Scromph
[2:42] 15. Swing Boy Swing
[2:13] 16. Poor Robinson Crusoe
[3:09] 17. Call Of The Delta
[2:47] 18. Shanghai Shuffle
[2:56] 19. Harlem Boogie
[2:31] 20. After Tonight
[2:30] 21. Don't Wake Up My Heart
[2:54] 22. Where In The World
[2:41] 23. In Any Language
[2:33] 24. Rosie The Redskin

Maxine Sullivan (vocals), John Kirby (double bass), Frank Newton (trumpet), Buster Bailey (clarinet), Claude Thornhill (piano), O'Neill Spencer (drums), Pete Brown (alto saxophone), Babe Russin (tenor saxophone), Lou Hurst (vocals), Joe Marsala (clarinet), Jack LeMaire (vocals), Ray Biondi (violin), Fats Waller (piano), Myra Johnson (vocals), Honey Bear Sedric (clarinet), Dick Porter (vocals), Jimmy C. Johnson (trombone), Midge Williams (vocals), Honey Bear Sedric (vocals) Joe Marsala Chicagoans, Sedric and his Honey Bears, Dick Porter Orchestra, Seven Chocolate Dandies, Jimmy Johnson Orchestra, Midge Williams Jazz Jesters.

Maxine Sullivan, born Marietta Williams in Homestead, Pennsylvania, was an American jazz vocalist and performer. As a vocalist, Maxine Sullivan was active for half a century, from the mid-1930s to just before her death in 1987. She is best known for her 1937 recording of a swing version of the Scottish folk song "Loch Lomond". Throughout her career, Sullivan also appeared as a performer on film as well as on stage. A precursor to better-known later vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughan, Maxine Sullivan is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of the 1930s.

Swing Street: Original 1931-1939 Recordings

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Maxine Sullivan, Bob Haggart, Ike Isaacs - Enjoy Yourself

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 68:27
Size: 156.7 MB
Styles: Vocal jazz
Year: 1981/1999
Art: Front

[2:38] 1. My Very Good Friend, The Milkman
[3:45] 2. This Heart Of Mine
[2:29] 3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
[4:48] 4. You Go To My Head
[2:11] 5. By Myself
[2:23] 6. I Hadn't Anyone Til You
[2:14] 7. It's Only A Paper Moon
[2:50] 8. Everything Happens To Me
[2:09] 9. I Could Write A Book
[2:17] 10. Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries
[2:06] 11. This Can't Be Love
[2:45] 12. Truckin'
[3:44] 13. What's New (Take 3)
[4:17] 14. Get Happy
[4:44] 15. Get Out And Get Under The Moon
[3:58] 16. Ain't We Got Fun
[3:16] 17. It's The Talk Of The Town
[2:34] 18. Make Someone Happy
[2:20] 19. When A Woman Loves A Man
[3:15] 20. Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
[4:04] 21. What's New (Take 5)
[3:26] 22. Side By Side

Maxine Sullivan is a master. Unvarnished, not over stylized, just damn good music recognized and respected by a pro. ~Richard P. Randall

With The Ike Isaacs Quartet & The Bob Haggart Quintet. featuring Dardanelle-pno, Sil Austin-tnr, Dan Wall-pno + 1978 & 1985.

Enjoy Yourself 

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Charlie Shavers - The Complete Charlie Shavers With Maxine Sullivan

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 1999
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:10
Size: 89,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:17)  1. Dark Eyes
(3:32)  2. Dawn on the Desert
(6:10)  3. Moten Swing
(8:09)  4. Story of the Jazz Trumpet
(4:48)  5. Rose Room
(3:44)  6. Flow Gently Sweet Rythm
(2:31)  7. Molly Malone
(2:40)  8. If I Had a Ribbon Bow
(3:16)  9. Windy

Charlie Shavers was one of the great trumpeters to emerge during the swing era, a virtuoso with an open-minded and extroverted style along with a strong sense of humor. He originally played piano and banjo before switching to trumpet, and he developed very quickly. In 1935, he was with Tiny Bradshaw's band and two years later he joined Lucky Millinder's big band. Soon afterward he became a key member of John Kirby's Sextet where he showed his versatility by mostly playing crisp solos while muted. Shavers was in demand for recording sessions and participated on notable dates with New Orleans jazz pioneers Johnny Dodds, Jimmy Noone, and Sidney Bechet. He also had many opportunities to write arrangements for Kirby and had a major hit with his composition "Undecided." After leaving Kirby in 1944, Charlie Shavers worked for a year with Raymond Scott's CBS staff orchestra, and then was an important part of Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra from 1945 until past TD's death in 1956. 

Although well-featured, this association kept Shavers out of the spotlight of jazz, but fortunately he did have occasional vacations in which he recorded with the Metronome All-Stars and toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic; at the latter's concerts in 1953, Shaver's trumpet battles with Roy Eldridge were quite exciting. After Dorsey's death, Shavers often led his own quartet although he came back to the ghost band from time to time. During the 1960s, his range and technique gradually faded, and Charlie Shavers died from throat cancer in 1971 at the age of 53. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/artist/charlie-shavers-mn0000179732/biography

Personnel: Charlie Shavers (trumpet); Maxine Sullivan (vocals); Hank D'Amico, Buster Bailey (clarinet); Russell Procope (alto saxophone); Benny Morton (trombone); Ken Kersey, Billy Kyle (piano); Panama Francis, Specs Powell (drums).

The Complete Charlie Shavers With Maxine Sullivan

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Maxine Sullivan - S as In Sullivan, Maxine Vol 1

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:13
Size: 110.4 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:06] 1. Say It With A Kiss
[3:11] 2. Dark Eyes
[2:31] 3. Kinda Lonesome
[3:24] 4. Night And Day
[2:45] 5. I';m Happy About The Whole Thing
[2:43] 6. Annie Laurie
[2:27] 7. I'm Comin', Virginia
[3:06] 8. Blue Skies
[3:07] 9. Moments Like This
[3:26] 10. Corn Pickin'
[2:47] 11. When Your Lover Has Gone
[3:03] 12. Easy To Love
[2:54] 13. Nice Work If You Can Get It
[3:15] 14. My Curly Headed Baby
[3:38] 15. It Ain't Necessarily So
[2:42] 16. Just Like A Gypsy

A subtle and lightly swinging jazz singer, Maxine Sullivan's delivery was very likable, and she did justice to all of the lyrics she sang during her long career. After moving to New York, Sullivan sang during intermissions at the Onyx Club and was discovered by pianist Claude Thornhill. Thornhill recorded her with a sympathetic septet singing a couple of standards and two Scottish folk songs performed in swinging fashion -- "Annie Laurie" and "Loch Lomond." The latter became a big hit and Sullivan's signature song for the rest of her career.

Future sessions found her singing vintage folk tunes such as "Darling Nellie Gray," "I Dream of Jeanie," "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" and "If I Had a Ribbon Bow." Even if lightning did not strike twice, she was now a popular attraction. She appeared briefly in the movie Going Places opposite Louis Armstrong and in the Broadway show Swingin' the Dream. From 1940-1942, Sullivan often sang with her husband, bassist John Kirby's Sextet, a perfect outlet for her cool sound. She starred for two years on a radio series, Flow Gently Sweet Rhythm; she had a reasonably successful solo career, and then in the mid-'50s (similar to Alberta Hunter) became a trained nurse. In 1968, the singer began making a comeback, performing at festivals and even playing a little bit of valve trombone and flügelhorn. Now married to pianist Cliff Jackson, Sullivan (whose style and appealing voice were unchanged from earlier years) sometimes appeared with the World's Greatest Jazz Band, and she recorded frequently. During her later period, she often sang with mainstream jazz groups, including Scott Hamilton's. Quite fittingly, the last song that she ever recorded in concert was the same as her first record, "Loch Lomond." Maxine Sullivan's earliest recordings are available on a Classics CD. A Tono LP has some of her mid-period recordings, and from 1969 on, she recorded for Monmouth Evergreen (reissued on Audiophile), Fat Cat Jazz, Riff, Kenneth, Stash, Atlantic, and Concord. ~bio by Scott Yanow

S as In Sullivan, Maxine Vol 1

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Maxine Sullivan - We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

Size: 174,6 MB
Time: 74:00
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1995/2015
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (2:44)
02. Someday Sweetheart (2:24)
03. Exactly Like You (2:50)
04. That Old Feeling (2:49)
05. Miss Otis Regrets (2:34)
06. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (2:44)
07. It's The Talk Of The Town (3:58)
08. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues (2:44)
09. She's Funny That Way (2:48)
10. St. Louis Blues (2:32)
11. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (2:53)
12. Legalize My Name (2:09)
13. You Were Meant For Me (2:22)
14. I'm Beginning To See The Light (3:26)
15. I Thought About You (4:04)
16. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea #2 (2:36)
17. I Got It Bad, And That Ain't Good (4:11)
18. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime (3:55)
19. Georgia On My Mind (4:14)
20. Don't Get Around Much Any More (3:22)
21. Skylark (2:19)
22. What Is There To Say (2:57)
23. I Didn't Know About You (3:33)
24. Just One Of Those Things (3:43)

Two former LPs are combined on this single CD. The subtle but always swinging singer Maxine Sullivan is heard on a very pleasing 1983 session in which she is joined by trumpeter Doc Cheatham (who sounds quite lyrical), the underrated clarinetist Herb Hall, pianist Red Richards, bassist Ike Isaacs and drummer Tom Martin. But good as that date is, it is the first half of this CD that is most memorable. Sullivan sounds exuberant while being inspired by the great cornetist Ernie Carson, Spencer Clark on baritone, pianist Art Hodes, bassist Johnny Haynes and drummer Martin. Carson takes many heated solos; Hodes is often rollicking, and Sullivan's voice is heard throughout in prime form -- she even takes a valve trombone solo on one song. Highlights include definitive versions of "We Just Couldn't say Goodbye," "Someday Sweetheart," "That Old Feeling" and "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea." In addition, there is a previously unreleased version of "It's the Talk of the Town" from Feb. 8, 1978, a very spontaneous performance with Hodes' band during an otherwise instrumental session. Highly recommended. ~Review by Scott Yanow

We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye

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Maxine Sullivan With Scott Hamilton - Swingin' Sweet

Styles: Vocal And Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1988
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:04
Size: 115,4 MB
Art: Front

(7:01)  1. Sweet Georgia Brown
(2:11)  2. As Long As I live
(3:15)  3. I Got A Right To Sing the Blues
(4:03)  4. Something To Remember You By
(2:58)  5. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
(3:43)  6. Georgia On My Mind
(3:12)  7. You Were Ment For Me
(3:48)  8. A Hundred Years From Today
(3:14)  9. Just One Of Those Things
(3:22) 10. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
(3:19) 11. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
(3:59) 12. Cheatin' On Me
(2:26) 13. You're Driving Me Crazy
(3:25) 14. Loch Lomond

Maxine Sullivan's final concert (although she would record part of her Jule Styne tribute studio album for Atlantic a few months later) is an excellent retrospective of her career. Joined by tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton's quintet (with pianist John Bunch and guitarist Chris Flory), Sullivan performs for the final time some of her favorite numbers, including nostalgic and near-classic renditions of "As Long as I Live," "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues," "A Hundred Years From Today" and "You're Driving Me Crazy." Ironically, the final song that Maxine Sullivan sang was also the same tune that she had used to start her recording career back in 1937, "Loch Lomond." Recommended. ~ Scott Yanow  http://www.allmusic.com/album/swingin-sweet-mw0000197117

Personnel: Maxine Sullivan (vocals), Scott Hamilton (tenor sax), John Bunch (piano), Chris Flory (guitar), Phil Flanigan (bass), Chuck Riggs (drums).

Swingin' Sweet

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