Azie Mortimer - Feeling Of Jazz (1963) [2014 Bethlehem Album Collection 1000] CD-Rip

The earliest work we've ever seen from Azie Mortimer – a hip album of vocal jazz tracks that predates some of her later soul material! Azie's got a really great style – lean, expressive, and with these great elements that really take her past more conventional jazz vocals – still inside, but with a cool groove that's definitely trying for more than the usual. Some moments have a 60s groovy swing, but still with a good deal of soul in the mix – and the set features arrangements by Mercer Ellington, and a group that includes Phil Woods on alto, Harold Ashby and Jerome Richardson on tenor, Jimmy Cleveland on trombone, and Mundell Lowe on guitar. The best cuts include an uptempo version of "Milestones", plus readings of "On Green Dolphin Street", "Capricious", and "Whisper Not".


Tracks:

01 - Feeling Of Jazz
02 - Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)
03 - Capricious
04 - Whisper Not
05 - Speak Low
06 - Round Midnight
07 - It's A Most Unusual Day
08 - When I Fall In Love
09 - Milestones
10 - On Green Dolphin Street
11 - Someday My Prince Will Come
12 - Soon

Personnel:

Band
Mercer Ellington - leader
Phil Woods - alto sax & clarinet
Milt Hinton - bass
Mundell Lowe - guitar
WM. Rodriguez - bongo
Charlie Persip - drums
Eugene Young - trumpet
Joe Wilder - trumpet
Ernest Royal - trumpet
J. Nottingham - trumpet
Britt Woodman - trombone
Jimmy Cleveland - trombone
Quent Jackson - trombone
Andy Fitzgerald - baritone sax
Jerome Richardson - tenor sax
Harold Ahsby - tenor sax
Hilton Jefferson - alto sax

Combo
Mercer Ellington - leader
Milt Hinton - bass
Jimmy Jones - piano
Charlie Persip - drums
Joe Galbraith - guitar
Les Span - guitar

Vocal background
The Buchanan Quartet