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Music : Helen Merrill With Clifford Brown & Gil Evans
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Helen Merrill With Clifford Brown & Gil Evans by: Helen Merrill Clifford Brown Gil Evans List Price: £9.99 Price: £5.62 You Save: £4.37 (44%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042283829220 Label: Universal Classics Manufacturer: Universal Classics Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Universal Classics Release Date: May 10, 1993 Running Time: 59 minutes Studio: Universal Classics Sales Rank: 160489 Disc 1:
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 Rating: - With this album, Helen Merrill becomes a STAR.Originally recorded in December, 1954, when Helen Merrill was only twenty-five, this recording, now digitally remastered and re-released, was her professional breakthrough. With Clifford Brown on trumpet, arrangements by Quincy Jones, who was himself only twenty-one, and fantastic back-up (Jimmy Jones on piano is especially notable), Helen Merrill was free to unloose her jazz interpretations and her explore her dramatic talent with lyrics. With a lush voice which still retains the sweetness of youth, she offers new variations on familiar melodic lines, provides sensitive interpretations of sad songs, and happily jives to the upbeat. Billy Holiday's "Don't Explain," one of the saddest songs ever written, is brilliantly interpreted ... Read More: |
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