SHEILA JORDAN / ARILD ANDERSEN - Sheila (1977-1985) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

This was a breakthrough recording for Sheila Jordan. She recorded a superb album for Blue Note in 1962 and then was off records (and only working in jazz on a part-time basis) up until the mid-'70s. She cut two albums for tiny labels and then came this, the first of her vocal-bass duet recordings. While in later years bassist Harvie Swartz would be her frequent musical partner, Jordan's SteepleChase set features the talented Arild Andersen on bass. The communication between the two often borders on the miraculous and it is a pleasure to hear Sheila Jordan's fresh and original interpretations of such songs as "Lush Life," "On Green Dolphin Street," "Don't Explain" and "Better than Anything." by Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1 Song of Joy 2:05
Reginald Rasputin Boutte / B. Preston
2 Hold Out Your Hands 3:19
Steve Kuhn
3 Lush Life 4:53
Billy Strayhorn
4 The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers 3:24
Steve Kuhn
5 What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? 2:54
Alan Bergman / Marilyn Bergman / Michel Legrand
6 On Green Dolphin Street 3:27
Bronislaw Kaper / Ned Washington
7 It Never Entered My Mind 4:01
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
8 Don't Explain 4:59
Billie Holiday / Arthur Herzog, Jr.
9 Better Than Anything 2:54
Bill Loughbrough / David "Buck" Wheat
10 The Lady 4:26
Rudy Stevenson
11 Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 3:08
Sidney Clare / Sam H. Stept
12 Song of Joy 3:46
Reginald Rasputin Boutte / B. Preston
Credits :
Bass – Arild Andersen
Vocals [Vocal] – Sheila Jordan