BruceH Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 (edited) I recently picked up this album, and I'm impressed. It's just a nice solid album, even though it's really a combination on a 10" and some extra tracks to make a 12" album---the two sessions mesh very well. All the tracks are small-group jazz, including Jimmy Rowles and Pete Candoli; Lee is in excellent voice. This stands up to comparison with the great Sinatra albums of the period (53/57). Anyone else have this one? (This re-issue is a digipak, but don't hold that against the music.) Edited January 20, 2005 by BruceH Quote
jazzbo Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 I've gotta get it; I'm just waiting for the right time and price. I've heard most of the material. . . great stuff. I've become quite a Peggy fan. Quote
BruceH Posted January 20, 2005 Author Report Posted January 20, 2005 The main reason I got it now was I had some Christmas credit at Borders. I was surprised to see an album I actually wanted there. Quote
jazzbo Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 I'll have to move this higher on my priorities, thanks for the report! I've been mainly listening to her Capitol work but I did pop in the "Black Coffee" ANTHOLOGY recently and enjoyed the hearing. Her voice is just so. . . musical. Quote
Late Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 I don't have Black Coffee (wish I did), but another "jazzier" side of Lee can be found on Things Are Swingin'. That one holds up over time. Quote
ghost of miles Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 I don't have Black Coffee (wish I did), but another "jazzier" side of Lee can be found on Things Are Swingin'. That one holds up over time. I'll second Late's opinion on THINGS ARE SWINGIN', which I got a few months ago. I ordered BLACK COFFEE a couple of weeks ago, and it should be showing up any day now. An interesting Lee album that works sporadically for me is LATIN A LA LEE (it was her version of "Till There Was You" from that LP that inspired McCartney and the Beatles to cover it). Hoping to work up a Lee big-band show for March that draws on some of the larger-ensemble Capitol dates as well as the early sides with Goodman. Quote
jazzbo Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 Yes, Things are Swinging is a great one! Quote
JSngry Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 Hoping to work up a Lee big-band show for March that draws on some of the larger-ensemble Capitol dates as well as the early sides with Goodman. Not exactly a "big band" date (lots o'strings), but this one is a mostly a gem afaic: Never mind the "orchestra conducted by Frank Sinatra" crap. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, whoknowswhocares, etc. What you got here is Lee singing ballads, great ballads, with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, who turns in some of his most harmonically devious work here. The version of "HAppiness Is Just A Thing Called Joe" is earfuck enough, but there's more... Plus, Lee sounds like she's in some kind of wierd, channelling Billie Holliday mode here. Kinda creeped me out at first, but the arrangements drew me into the total package, and now I'm hooked. Quote
jazzbo Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 Yeah, I have never minded the conducting crap on this one for some time. You can get it paired with "Things are Swinging" from British EMI on one cd. Now THAT is one fine pairing! Quote
JSngry Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 Yeah, that's how I have it, in that two-fer. Value-packed! But Quincy Jones is no Nelson Riddle, not when it comes to this kind of thing. Quote
Late Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 Yeah, I have never minded the conducting crap on this one for some time. You can get it paired with "Things are Swinging" from British EMI on one cd. Now THAT is one fine pairing! Really? That's strange, as my English EMI edition has Things Are Swingin' paired with Jump for Joy: Another fine one ... That was a fine series (is it still going?) — the English Capitol/EMI two-fer series of vocalists. Some fine Julie London and (even) Dean Martin could be picked up that way ... Quote
jazzbo Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 I think mine is English. Maybe it's another European country? I'll have to check when I can. . . . I've never heard Jump for Joy, bet it's good, I really like Peggy of this period. Quote
Late Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 I've never heard Jump for Joy, bet it's good, I really like Peggy of this period. It's a good session. I like Things Are Swingin' a little better, but Jump for Joy is a nice pairing. It has fine versions of "Just in Time" and "Cheek to Cheek" — the latter tune, I think, is very hard not to make schmaltzy, and Lee brings it off without schmaltz. Quote
JSngry Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 JUMP FOR JOY is also w/Riddle, and his charts on that one are as perfunctory as the ones on THE MAN I LOVE are expansive. Quote
ghost of miles Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 It's paired with IF I GO on the EMI release. Quote
JSngry Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 Just checked - my British twofer combines THE MAN I LOVE with IF YOU GO AWAY, which is a "lighter" date w/charts by Quincy Jones, although I must say that there are a few spots that sound as if they could have been ghostwritten by Riddle. But not enough of them. Quote
frank m Posted January 20, 2005 Report Posted January 20, 2005 At itunes you can download Peggy's "Whisper Not" for 99 cents. (If anybody can tell me who is the guy that plays that fine trumpet solo, I'll award him or her a brass figalagee. Quote
homer9600 Posted January 21, 2005 Report Posted January 21, 2005 At itunes you can download Peggy's "Whisper Not" for 99 cents. (If anybody can tell me who is the guy that plays that fine trumpet solo, I'll award him or her a brass figalagee. Does that brass figalagee have bronze oak-leaf palms? Excelsior. Quote
BruceH Posted January 21, 2005 Author Report Posted January 21, 2005 Yeah, I have never minded the conducting crap on this one for some time. You can get it paired with "Things are Swinging" from British EMI on one cd. Now THAT is one fine pairing! That sounds like a must-have. What's on the cover? (The picture of the guy lunching on her neck makes me kinda sick....) Quote
Late Posted January 21, 2005 Report Posted January 21, 2005 (edited) That sounds like a must-have. What's on the cover? Small picture, but this is the one I have ... Things Are Swingin' - Jump for Joy Edited January 21, 2005 by Late Quote
jazzbo Posted January 21, 2005 Report Posted January 21, 2005 (edited) Must say my copy DOES have The Man I Love paired with Things are Swingin' but it appears to be a homemade pairing! As I have the recent Capitol cd of Swingin' I always just listen to The Man I Love on that one. Edited January 21, 2005 by jazzbo Quote
JSngry Posted January 21, 2005 Report Posted January 21, 2005 That sounds like a must-have. What's on the cover? Small picture, but this is the one I have ... Things Are Swingin' - Jump for Joy And this is the one I have: THE MAN I LOVE coupled with IF YOU GO. Quote
jazzbo Posted January 21, 2005 Report Posted January 21, 2005 This was one of my favorite purchases of last year. Quote
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