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After the triumph that was 2008's A Song for You, Ernestine Anderson returns with a live collection compiled from three dates at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola and Jazz at Lincoln Center, recorded between that year and 2010. The mix is a healthy helping of jazz and swinging blues with a top-shelf band. The constants are saxophonist Houston Person, and pianist Lafayette Harris, Jr., with new drummer Jerome Jennings (Willie Jones III plays on the stellar "All Blues"), and alternating bassists Lonnie Plaxico and Chip Jackson. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this date is that Anderson, who was 80 at the time of the earliest of these recordings, is captured at her dusky, sultry, swinging best. It's there in the fingerpopping "I Love Being Here with You," the deeply emotive title track (a fine showcase for Harris), the shimmering backbeat groove in "Only Trust Your Heart," and the jaunty reading of "Falling in Love with Love"-- where she meets meets Person in a call-and-response interchange that is delightful. Anderson lets her deep well of experience, phrasing, and expression compensate handsomely for what age has taken from her range. This set doesn't have the sense of controlled elegance that A Song for You did, but it isn't supposed to. It's a party record, a collection of jazz tunes done with pure blues feeling by an artist who obviously relishes engaging with her band in front of an audience.
Product Details
Release Date: | 01/25/2011 |
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Label: | Highnote |
UPC: | 0632375721329 |
catalogNumber: | 7213 |
Rank: | 104130 |
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Album Credits
Performance Credits
Ernestine Anderson Primary Artist,VocalsHouston Person Tenor Saxophone
Lonnie Plaxico Bass
Lafayette Harris Piano
Chip Jackson Bass
Willie Jones Drums
Jerome Jennings Drums
Technical Credits
Jimmy Rushing ComposerTodd Barkan Producer
Sammy Cahn Composer
Joe Fields Executive Producer
Lorenz Hart Composer
Katherine Miller Engineer
Charles Strouse Composer
Michael Bourne Liner Notes
Joe Josea Composer
Bill Schluger Composer
R. B. King Composer
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