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Ray Brown – Some of My Best Friends are… Singers (1998)

Posted By: Oceandrop

Date: 12 Feb 2010 21:22:09

~allmusic
What does a bass player do when he’s recording an album as a leader? Surely not an hour’s worth of bass solos! Ray Brown solved the bass player’s dilemma with a series of recordings under the Some of My Best Friends Are… heading. This 1998 release is the third in the series, following the earlier Some of My Best Friends Are…Piano Players and Some of My Best Friends Are…Sax Players, and it’s a gem. Featuring a sextet of fine vocalists, ranging from the well-established to the unknown, this CD is a class act from beginning to end. The rising jazz vocal superstar of the late ’90s, Diana Krall, is showcased to great effect on “I Thought About You” and “Little Boy.” Well-established female vocal veterans Etta Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Marlena Shaw deliver superb performances, soulfully giving master lessons in the art of singing. The lone male singer spotlighted here, Kevin Mahogany, wraps his smooth baritone around the ballad “Skylark,” and swings gently on “The Party’s Over.”

The one unknown in this collection is Oregonian Nancy King. This veteran of the San Francisco and Pacific Northwest scenes shows she has a fine way with a ballad on “But Beautiful,” and scats her way across the upbeat Brown original “The Perfect Blues,” that closes this set. Both of these songs also feature Antonio Hart’s alto saxophone. In addition to Brown’s trio mates Geoff Keezer and Gregory Hutchinson, musical support includes guitarist Russell Malone on two tracks and tenor saxman Ralph Moore cooking alongside Bridgewater on “Cherokee.”

Tracklist:
01. I Thought About You (with Diana Krall) (5:23)
02. Poor Butterfly (with Etta Jones) (3:29)
03. More Than You Know (with Dee Dee Bridgewater) (5:35)
04. Little Boy (with Diana Krall) (2:27)
05. But Beautiful (with Nancy King) (5:41)
06. At Long Last Love (with Marlena Shaw) (3:24)
07. Skylark (with Kevin Mahogany) (6:01)
08. Cherokee (with Dee Dee Bridgewater) (6:21)
09. (There Is) No Greater Love (with Etta Jones) (4:21)
10. Imagination (with Marlene Shaw) (7:22)
11. The Party’s Over (with Kevin Mahogany) (3:41)
12. The Perfect Blues (with Nancy King) (5:16)

Personnel:
Geoff Keezer – piano
Ray Brown – bass
Gregory Hutchinson – drums
Antonio Hart – alto saxophone
Russell Malone – guitar
Ralph Moore – tenor saxophone
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Etta Jones, Nancy King - vocals
Diana Krall, Kevin Mahogany, Marlena Shaw - vocals

Recorded in O’Henry Studios, Studio "A", Burbank, CA, December 15-17, 1997; and Sony Music Studio "D", N.Y.C., April 27-29, 1998
Recording Producers: Ray Brown, Elaine Martone
Recording Engineer: Michael Bishop
Executive Producer: Robert Woods
Assistant Engineers: Robert Friedrich, Ryan Hewitt, Brett Swain
Editor: Mark Tessi
Cover Photo: Tony Stone Images
Art Director and Cover Design: Anilda Carrasquillo
Liner notes by Jon W. Poses

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