Earl Coleman - Earl Coleman Returns (1956) [2013 Prestige 7000 Chronicle Series] CD-Rip

Reissue features the latest digital remastering and the high-fidelity SHM-CD format (compatible with standard CD player) and the latest DSD / HR Cutting remastering. Comes with a description. Features the original LP designs. Possibly the strongest album ever recorded by mellow-voiced jazz vocalist Earl Coleman – a singer with a deeper style that's very much in the classic Billy Eckstine mode, but which swings a bit more freely in a small combo! The set's got a nicely open style – with longer tracks than usual for a jazz vocal date, and lots of room for jazz soloists that include Art Farmer on trumpet, Gigi Gryce on alto, and Hank Jones on piano.

The backing is in a great small group mode, and in a way, the album's almost unique for the time – and really predates a lot of later male vocal sides of this nature – offering Coleman more of a fresh start than just a standard "return" – and really paving the way for Johnny Hartman sides in the 60s. Titles include "Say It Isn't So", "Reminiscing", "Come Rain Or Come Shine", "No Love No Nothin", and a great version of "Social Call". CD features 6 bonus tracks that include "My Last Affair", "This Is Always", "I Haven't Changed A Thing", and "Ghost Of A Chance".

Tracks:

01 - Say It Isn't So
02 - Reminiscing
03 - Social Call
04 - It's You Or No One
05 - Come Rain Or Come Shine
06 - No Love, No Nothin'
07 - This Is Always (bonus track)
08 - My Last Affair (bonus track)
09 - Ghost Of A Chance (bonus track)
10 - I Haven't Changed A Thing (bonus track)
11 - My Ideal (bonus track)
12 - Two Different Worlds (bonus track)

Personnel:

Earl Coleman (vocals); Gigi Gryce (alto saxophone); Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone); Gene Easton, Cecil Payne (baritone saxophone); Art Farmer, Nat Howard, Nat Woodyard (trumpet); Henderson Chambers, Edwin Moore (trombone); Hank Jones, John Houston, Lawrence Wheatley (piano); Wendell Marshall, Oscar Pettiford, Ben Stuberville, Ernie Shephard (bass); Wilbert Hogan, George Brown, Shadow Wilson (drums).