Peggy Cone - Peggy Cone Sings (1998)

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Title: Peggy Cone Sings
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Self-Released
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 51:39
Total Size: 282 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. I've Got a Crush on You (3:25)
02. Here's That Rainy Day (3:39)
03. When Sunny Gets Blue (3:27)
04. This Can't Be Love (2:51)
05. That Old Feeling (3:16)
06. Blue Skies (4:33)
07. Falling in Love Again (3:39)
08. Dance of Love (5:00)
09. Lucky So and So (5:00)
10. Love for Sale (4:44)
11. How Deep Is the Ocean (3:33)
12. Hi Fly (4:55)
13. Only Trust Your Heart (3:37)

A criticism unfairly levied against jazz singers is that after you've heard them perform one or two songs, you've heard everything they have to offer. Peggy Cone's initial album should go a long way in putting that criticism to rest. She treats each tune on this album as a story written just for her. She tells the story in such an engaging manner that it immediately gets and keeps the listener's attention. Listen to the Jack Segal/Marvin Fisher classic "When Sunny Gets Blue," "Falling in Love Again" and Benny Carter and Sammy Cahn's lovely, under-recorded "Only Trust Your Heart." Cone performs with emotion and vitality, and offers a fresh approach to each of these standards. There's some of Chris Connor, Anita O'Day and Frances Faye in her style. Cone delivers "Love for Sale with a Latin beat like Faye's on her Swinging All the Way album (which she recorded with Marty Paich). "Blue Skies" swings mightily and "Lucky So and So" has a blues tinge. Cone's significant composing skills are shown on her "Dance of Love." Throughout the session, Cone is sympathetically backed by her regular group -- Vincent Jacqz, piano; Andrew Hall, bass; and Stefan Schatz's understated brush work on drums. There's a guest appearance by Mingus Big Band drummer Victor Jones on two tracks. Jacqz and Schatz solo nicely on "This Can't Be Love."~Dave Nathan