The singing of Teresa Brewer was always producer Bob Thiele's blind
spot. Although equipped with a voice quite suitable for pop and country
music, Brewer always sounded overly cute and out of place when
performing jazz, despite her husband's successful attempts to team her
with the who's who of jazz. This CD is quite remarkable, for there are
few singers who sound less like Louis Armstrong than Brewer, yet here
she is singing a dozen of Satch's standards. What's more, she is joined
by a different trumpeter on each track: Clark Terry, Nicholas Payton,
Ruby Braff, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Harry
"Sweets" Edison, Lew Soloff, Terence Blanchard, Yank Lawson, Red Rodney
and Dizzy Gillespie. (Where was Miles Davis?) Fortunately, each of the
brassmen gets a worthwhile amount of solo space, only two songs are
under 4½ minutes, and Brewer generally takes just two choruses. None of
the boppish renditions sound at all close to New Orleans jazz, nor do
any of the trumpeters show off much of a Louis Armstrong influence. A
strange but very intriguing record. by Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1 I Can't Give You Anything But Love 5:51
Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh
2 What a Wonderful World 7:01
George Douglas / Bob Thiele / George David Weiss
3 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) 5:38
Harry Barris / Ted Koehler / Billy Moll
4 Basin Street Blues 5:40
Spencer Williams
5 I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) 7:21
Doc Daugherty / Al J. Neiburg / Ellis Reynolds
6 Ain't Misbehavin' 4:14
Harry Brooks / Andy Razaf / Fats Waller
7 Hello, Dolly! 5:44
Jerry Herman
8 I've Got the World on a String 6:17
Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler
9 St. Louis Blues 4:43
W.C. Handy
10 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 6:26
Clarence Muse / Otis Rene / Leon René
11 Stardust 3:52
Hoagy Carmichael / Mitchell Parish
12 Blueberry Hill 4:43
Al Lewis / Vincent Rose / Larry Stock
Credits :
Trumpet – Freddie Hubbard, Roy Hargrove, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis
Vocals - Teresa Brewer
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