Hadda Brooks - Out Of The Blue: The Singles & Albums Collection 1945-53 (2021)

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Title: Out Of The Blue: The Singles & Albums Collection 1945-53
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Acrobat Records
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:25:30
Total Size: 345 mb
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Tracklist:

CD1

01. Hadda Brooks - Just A Little Bluesie
02. Hadda Brooks - Swingin' The Boogie
03. Hadda Brooks - Blues In B Flat
04. Hadda Brooks & Her Sextette - Nightmare Boogie
05. Hadda Brooks - The Man I Love
06. Hadda Brooks - Bluesin' The Boogie
07. Hadda Brooks - Blue Mood
08. Hadda Brooks Trio - Polonaise Boogie
09. Hadda Brooks - Society Boogie
10. Hadda Brooks Trio - Grieg's Concerto Boogie
11. Hadda Brooks Trio - You Won't Let Me Go
12. Hadda Brooks Trio - Humoresque Boogie
13. Hadda Brooks Trio - That's My Desire
14. Hadda Brooks Trio - Romance In The Dark
15. Hadda Brooks Trio - Trust In Me
16. Hadda Brooks Trio - Don't Take Your Love From Me
17. Hadda Brooks Trio - That's Where I Came In
18. Hadda Brooks Trio - It All Depends On You
19. Hadda Brooks Trio - Hollywood House Party Boogie
20. Hadda Brooks Trio - The Best Things In Life Are Free
21. Hadda Brooks Trio - Variety Bounce
22. Hadda Brooks Trio - Out Of The Blue
23. Hadda Brooks Trio - Bully Wully Boogie
24. Hadda Brooks Trio - What Have I Done
25. Hadda Brooks Trio - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm

CD2

01. Hadda Brooks Trio - Sailboat In The Moonlight
02. Hadda Brooks - Bewildered
03. Hadda Brooks Trio - Take Me
04. Hadda Brooks - Always
05. Hadda Brooks - Lazy Boogie
06. Hadda Brooks - This Time We're Through
07. Hadda Brooks Trio - Keep Your Hand On Your Heart
08. Hadda Brooks - When A Woman Cries
09. Hadda Brooks - I Feel So Good
10. Hadda Brooks - The Thrill Is Gone
11. Hadda Brooks - Please Be Kind
12. Hadda Brooks - My Ideal
13. Hadda Brooks - Dream
14. Hadda Brooks - My Romance
15. Hadda Brooks - Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere
16. Hadda Brooks - Honky Tonk Boogie
17. Hadda Brooks - Hip Shakin' Boogie
18. Hadda Brooks - I Hadn't Anyone Till You
19. Hadda Brooks - All I Need Is You
20. Hadda Brooks - It Hadda Be Brooks
21. Hadda Brooks - Time Was When
22. Hadda Brooks - I'm Still In Love
23. Hadda Brooks - My Song
24. Hadda Brooks - Jump Back, Honey
25. Hadda Brooks - When I Leave The World Behind

Hadda Brooks was a classically-trained pianist who turned to jazz and boogie woogie and became a stylish and distinctive singer of ballads, to the extent that in the late 1940s she enjoyed three Top 10 R&B hits with sophisticated vocal recordings. Basing her piano style initially on that of boogie woogie pioneers like Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, she developed a unique strand of material which involved re-interpreting classical pieces in boogie woogie idiom. This great-value 50-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides of her singles on the Modern, London and Okeh labels during these years, plus selected titles from the albums “Femme Fatale” and “Swings The Boogie” on Crown, performing in her early years with a small jazz group and later both solo and with her Trio. It naturally includes those three Top 10 hits “That’s My Desire”, “Out Of The Blue” and “What Have I Done”. She was one of the more unusual artists of the post-war decades, straddling stylistic boundaries in her highly individual manner, and this selective compilation of her output in what was an important first decade or so of her career provides an entertaining showcase for her eclectic style and talents.