Helen Merrill - Complete Helen Merrill on Mercury (1986) CDRip

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Artist: Helen Merrill
Title: Complete Helen Merrill on Mercury
Year Of Release: 1986
Label: PolyGram/Mercury
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 51:34 / 56:00 / 47:05 / 56:55
Total Size: 1.05 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1:

1. Alone Together
2. Alone Together
3. Glad To Be Unhappy
4. This Is My Night To Cry
5. How's The World Treating You
6. How's The World Treating You
7. Don't Explain
8. Born To Be Blue
9. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
10. 'S Wonderful
11. Yesterdays
12. Falling In Love With Love
13. What's New

CD 2:

1. You Won't Forget Me
2. Lilac Wine
3. Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
4. Beautiful Love
5. Just You, Just Me
6. When I Fall In Love
7. End Of A Love Affair
8. Mountain High, Valley Low
9. Anything Goes
10. Comes Love
11. I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over
12. Wait Till You See Him
13. He Was Too Good To Me
14. I've Never Seen
15. I'm A Fool To Want You
16. Trouble Waters

CD 3:

1. Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home
2. Where Falmingo's Fly
3. I'm Just A Lucky So & So
4. A New Town Is A Blue Town
5. By Myself
6. People Will Say We're In Love
7. You're Lucky To Me
8. Dream Of You
9. Blue Guitar
10. Listen
11. I'll Be Around
12. Soft As Spring
13. If I Forget You
14. After You
15. It's A Lazy Afternoon

CD 4:

1. If You Go
2. If Love Were All
3. If Love Were All
4. Easy Come, Easy Go
5. The Things We Did Last Summer
6. Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
7. I See Your Face Before Me
8. I Remember You
9. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
10. Bye Bye Blackbird
11. This Time The Dream's On Me
12. Dearly Beloved
13. Summertime
14. Let Me Love You
15. When The Sun Comes Out
16. All Of You
17. The Nearness Of You
18. Just Imagine

This four-LP box set, whose contents have been partly reissued on CD, has all of singer Helen Merrill's output for Mercury; only two selections for the Roost label in 1953 precede these definitive recordings. Merrill, whose warm voice was always both distinctive and flexible, could hold her own with the best jazz musicians of the era. Best known of her recordings are her classic collaborations with Clifford Brown on seven selections arranged by Quincy Jones (including "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" and "Falling in Love With Love"), but almost as significant was a notable album on which she employed the little-known Gil Evans as arranger, a year before he teamed up with Miles Davis for Miles Ahead. Other Mercury dates include work with the Johnny Richards Orchestra, arranger Hal Mooney, flutist Bobby Jaspar, and pianist Bill Evans. Highlights include "Glad to Be Unhappy," "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home," "Where Flamingos Fly," and "The Things We Did Last Summer," but all 62 selections are well worth hearing. Highly recommended.

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