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Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan! [8436539310181]

Annie Ross
1 disc

1. I Feel Pretty
2. I?E Grown Accustomed To Your Face
3. All of You
4. Give Me the Simple Life
5. This is Always
6. My Old Flame
7. This Time the Dream's On Me
8. Let There Be Love
9. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
10. How About You?
11. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
12. This is Always [Alternate Version]
13. It Don't Mean a Thing
14. Lady's In Love With You, The
15. You Turned the Tables On Me
16. I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face [Alternate Version]
17. Gypsy In My Soul
18. I Love Paris
19. I Didn's Know About You
20. Lady's In Love With You, The
21. T'ain't What You Do
22. Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying
23. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
24. Don't Worry About Me
25. Skylark
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Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 131518
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Considering Annie Ross's justified reputation as one of the great jazz vocalists, it is disheartening to discover how few solo albums she actually released in her long career. Happily, her collaboration with fellow cool jazzmen, saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and trumpeters Chet Baker and Art Farmer alternately, is a superior session on its merits alone. As per usual with Mulligan, the accompaniment is piano-less, but Ross--who knew how to sound like a horn from her Lambert, Hendricks & Ross experience--is on firm ground here. This is not a scatting, vocalese date however. Annie sings it straight, and her versions of Leonard Bernstein's "I Feel Pretty" (from WEST SIDE STORY), "The Lady's in Love With You," and "Give Me the Simple Life" are as notable for their wry readings of the lyric as for her winning musical style.