Helen Humes - The Chronological Classics: 1945-1947 (1997)

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Artist: Helen Humes
Title: The Chronological Classics: 1945-1947
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Classics[1036]
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 62:32
Total Size: 162 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. Voo-It (2:59)
02. Did You Ever Love a Man (2:57)
03. Central Avenue Boogie (2:39)
04. Please Let Me Forget (3:09)
05. He Don't Love Me Anymore (2:51)
06. Pleasing Man Blues (3:05)
07. It's Better to Give Than to Receive (2:57)
08. See, See, Rider (2:48)
09. Be Ba Ba Le Ba Boogie (2:45)
10. Married Man Blues (2:58)
11. Be-Bop Bounce (2:22)
12. If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight (2:44)
13. I Don't Know His Name (2:43)
14. Drive Me Daddy (3:01)
15. Jet Propelled Papa (2:46)
16. Blue and Sentimental (3:14)
17. I Just Refuse to Sing the Blues (2:59)
18. They Raided the Joint (2:32)
19. Mad About You (3:04)
20. Jumpin' on Sugar Hill (2:59)
21. Flippity Flop Flop (2:04)
22. Today I Sing the Blues (2:56)

This second installment in the excellent Classics Helen Humes chronology covers the exciting material she recorded for the Philo (soon to become Aladdin), Black & White, and Mercury labels, first with her All-Stars in Los Angeles during 1945-1946 and then with Buck Clayton's band in New York in 1946 and 1947. Alternating between ballads, blues, and boogie-woogie, the singer exudes a wonderful passionate glow that sometimes borders on the sensual. The front lines of her West Coast bands were richly staffed with excellent players in trumpeter Snooky Young and saxophonists Willie Smith, Tom Archia, Corky Corcoran, Maxwell Davis, Wild Bill Moore, and -- fresh out of the Army -- Lester Young! Dig his beautiful solo on "Pleasing Man Blues." Note also the presence of some of the top rhythm section men in the Los Angeles area at that time: guitarists Allan Reuss, Dave Barbour, and Irving Ashby; bassist Red Callender; drummers Chico Hamilton and Henry Tucker Green; and pianists Arnold Ross, Eddie Beal, and the great Meade "Lux" Lewis, who adds a little mustard to the singer's sequel to her earlier hit record, "Be-Baba-Leba." Over on the East Coast, the Buck Clayton-led ensembles had equally strong support in tenor saxophonist John Hardee (his velvety introduction to "Blue and Sentimental" is nothing less than a tribute to Herschel Evans), pianists Ram Ramirez and Teddy Wilson, and the winning Kansas City combination of bassist Walter Page and drummer Jo Jones. Is this the best of Helen Humes? Pretty close to it; she's in the prime of her early maturity and the musicians are uniformly excellent.

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