CAROL SLOANE - Out of the Blue (1962-1996) FLAC (tracks), lossless

Carol Sloane, who made a strong impression with her performance at the 1961 Newport Jazz Festival, shortly after recorded her first album (originally on Columbia) which has been reissued on this Koch CD along with a previously unreleased "April in My Heart" and Sloane's 45 version of "I Want You to Be the First to Know." At the time, her voice sounded a little like Ella Fitzgerald's in spots, but Sloane's own personality frequently pops through. She mostly sticks to ballads, along with an occasional swinger, on this set, and the only partly identified band is mostly confined to a quiet supporting role by arrangers Bill Finegan and Bob Brookmeyer. After recording a second album for Columbia, Sloane would slip into obscurity until her rediscovery (at first by the Japanese) in the late '70s but, as this reissue shows, Carol Sloane was a highly appealing singer from the start. Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1     Prelude to a Kiss
Duke Ellington / Irving Gordon / Irving Mills
2     Aren't You Glad You're You 2:00
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
3     Little Girl Blue 3:55
T. B. Harms / Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
4     Who Cares? 2:30
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
5     My Ship 2:56
Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill
6     Will You Still Be Mine? 2:15
Tom Adair / Matt Dennis
7     The More I See You 2:33
Mack Gordon / Harry Warren
8     Deep Purple 3:12
Peter DeRose / Mitchell Parish
9     Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
Lew Brown / Ray Henderson
10     My Silent Love 3:32
Edward Heyman / Dana Suesse
11     Night and Day 2:06
Cole Porter
12     I Want You to Be the First One to Know 2:35
June Carroll / Arthur Siegel
13     April in My Heart 3:29
Hoagy Carmichael / Helen Meinardi
Credits :
Arranged By – Bill Finegan (pistas: 2 to 10, 12, 13)
Bass – Art Davis, George Duvivier
Conductor – Bill Finegan
Drums – Walter Perkins
Flugelhorn – Clark Terry
Flute – Al Klink
Guitar – Barry Galbraith, Jim Hall
Piano – Bernie Leighton
Trumpet – Nick Travis
Valve Trombone – Bob Brookmeyer