Artist: Janet Blair & Claudia Thompson
Title: Flame Out! / Goodbye to Love
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Best Voices Time Forgot
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 75:52 min
Total Size: 177 / 346 MB
Tracklist:01. Get Out of Town (Cole Porter) 2:33
02. Autumn Leaves (Prevert-Kosma-Mercer) 2:48
03. Glad to Be Unhappy (Rodgers-Hart) 2:37
04. They Can't Take That Away from Me (G. & I Gershwin) 3:10
05. Good Morning Heartache (Higgenbotham-Drake-Fisher) 3:50
06. The Gentleman Is a Dope (Rodgers-Hammerstein II) 2:59
07. Don't Explain (Holiday-Herzog) 2:50
08. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Hoagy Carmichael) 2:59
09. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (Ellington-Russell) 3:12
10. Then You've Never Been Blue (Lewis-Young-Fiorito) 2:30
11. In Love in Vain (Kern-Robin) 2:50
12. Lover Man (Davis-Ramirez-Sherman) 3:24
13. Some of These Days (Shelton Brooks) 4:02
14. Body and Soul (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eyton) 2:45
15. If I Should Lose You (Rainger-Robin) 3:25
16. Stormy Weather (Arlen-Koehler) 3:30
17. I'm Through with Love (Livingston-Malneck-Kahn) 2:38
18. The Morning After (Sam Coslow) 2:38
19. Goodbye (Gordon Jenkins) 2:40
20. Blue Prelude (Jenkins-Bishop) 2:51
21. You Call It Madness (Dubois-Columbo-Conrad-Gregory) 3:06
22. Fan Me (Robert Russell) 3:21
23. I Was Yours (Ramey Idriss) 2:46
24. Gloomy Sunday (Javor-Lewis-Seress) 3:43
25. Goodnight My Pet (Ira Cook) 2:25
Flame Out!
Janet Blair (1921-2007) was a big-band singer who became a popular American film and television actress. The 1959 album "Flame Out!," marked her first appearance on record since her days as vocalist with the Hal Kemp Orchestra in the 1940s. Janet's naturally beautiful voice and great feel for the lyrics, brought new light to some of the best "heart songs" of her era. All musical scores were arranged and conducted by pianist Lou Busch, who had also been with the Kemp crew. Through the adept use of orchestral sounds, he managed to engineer a change of pace between songs. Some have a light, tonal modern jazz background in a Mancini-influenced style; others, a strikingly beautiful string sound; and still others employ the sparse feel of a "blues" piano and a lonesome trumpet blowing "out there somewhere."
Goodbye to Love
The "voice you can't forget" belongs to Claudia Thompson. it is haunting. misty. soul-searching. Claudia's song styling-with the help of excellent control and breathless phrasing-weaves a spell of bittersweet love. She sings cleanly with good diction, and she's capable of creating and sustaining a mood effectively. Her ballad singing is always warm and knowing, and she handles them with tenderness and restraint. Her talents combine smoothly with the effective accompaniment of such jazzmen as Barney Kessel, Red Mitchell and Benny Carter, who do much to enhance the album's appeal and form an excellent frame for the singer. This is an unforgettable listening experience.
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