CAROL SLOANE - Ballad Essentials (2001) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Part of the compilation series Ballad Essentials, this CD features the jazz vocals of Carol Sloane. The vocalist's smoky renditions of such ballads as "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" and "Moonlight in Vermont" are among the featured songs, previously recorded and released on Sloane's six projects for the Concord Jazz label. However, it is Sloane's work on the Fred J. Coots and Haven Gillespie gem "You Go to My Head" -- featuring Steve Turre's great trombone solo -- that makes this collection of ballads worth the price of the CD. Paula Edelstein
Tracklist :
1     I'm Getting Sentimental over You 5:26
George Bassman / Ned Washington
Bass – John Lockwood
Drums – Colin Bailey
Piano – Stefan Scaggiari
2     Autumn Nocturne 5:59
Kim Gannon / Josef Myrow
Bass – Michael Moore
Clarinet – Phil Woods
3     In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 3:15
Bob Hilliard / David Mann
Bass – Sean Smith
4     Soon 3:44
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Bass – Steve Gilmore
Guitar – Howard Alden
5     You Go to My Head 5:41
J. Fred Coots / Haven Gillespie
Bass – Ben Brown
Drums – Dennis Mackrel
Saxophone – Bill Easley, Scott Robinson
Trombone – Steve Turre
Trumpet – Byron Stripling, Greg Gisbert
6     Heart's Desire 4:34
Alan Broadbent / Dave Frishberg
Bass – John Lockwood
Drums – Colin Bailey
Piano – Stefan Scaggiari    
7     One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) 9:07
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
Bass – Sean Smith    
8     Moonlight in Vermont 4:13
Karl Suessdorf
Bass – Marcus McLaurine
Drums – Dennis Mackrel
Trumpet – Clark Terry
9     I Was Telling Him About You 4:34
Mark "Moose" Charlap / Don George
Bass – Steve Gilmore
Guitar – Howard Alden
10     You Must Believe in Spring 5:16
Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Jacques Demy / Michel Legrand
Bass – John Lockwood
Drums – Colin Bailey
Piano – Stefan Scaggiari
11     The Folks Who Live on the Hill 7:55
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
Bass – Michael Moore
Clarinet – Phil Woods
Credits :
Drums – Ron Vincent (pistas: 2 to 4, 7, 9, 11)
Piano – Bill Charlap (pistas: 2 to 5, 7 to 9, 11)
Vocals – Carol Sloane