DAKOTA STATON — Dakota at Storyville (1962-1991) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

This album features singer Dakota Staton at her best. Recorded live at Boston's Storyville, Staton sounds quite inspired on such numbers as "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby," "Saturday Night Is the Loneliest Night of the Week," "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (which spontaneously becomes a crowd singalong), "Mean and Evil Blues," and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore." Other than pianist Norman Simmons, the accompanying quartet is unidentified, but the man on tenor, flute, and (on "Music, Maestro, Please") oboe is obviously Yusef Lateef. An underrated gem. Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1     Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? 2:59
Bill Austin / Louis Jordan    
2     This Is the Beginning of the End 2:34
Mack Gordon
3     Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night of the Week) 2:08
Sammy Cahn / Jule Styne
4     The Show Must Go On 2:47
Alfred / Frisch
5     When I Grow Too Old to Dream 3:43
Oscar Hammerstein II / Sigmund Romberg
6     Mean and Evil Blues 2:47  
Claude De Metrius    
7     Don't Get Around Much Anymore 2:07
Hank Crawford / Duke Ellington / Bob Russell
8     It's the Talk of the Town 4:02
Jerry Livingston / Al J. Neiburg / Marty Symes
9     Easy to Love 1:55
Cole Porter
10     Music, Maestro, Please! 2:39     
Allie Wrubel / Herb Magidson
11     Play Your Hands, Girls 2:56     
Dakota Staton
Credits :
Accompanied By – Norman Simmons Quartet
Vocals – Dakota Staton

THE GEORGE SHEARING QUINTET WITH DAKOTA STATON - In the Night (1957-2003) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

With its progressive-leaning jazz and modernist blues vocals, In the Night was the prototype for the piano-vocals collaboration record that George Shearing would remake with Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, and Nancy Wilson while at Capitol (and many others afterwards). In July 1957, just after Dakota Staton's immense success with "The Late, Late Show," Capitol recorded two of its biggest jazz stars together for what would turn out to be one of the finest teamings in either's career. Staton appears on every other song, lending her blend of post-bop vocal prowess and late-night melodrama to a set of well-chosen songs including "In the Night" and "I Hear Music." (Ironically, the version of "The Late, Late Show" heard here is an instrumental.) Shearing and Staton are joined by the pianist's group at the time, including Emil Richards on vibes, the splendid Toots Thielemans on guitar, and a few features for Latin percussionist Armando Peraza. The group's finest features are the opener, "From Rags to Richards," a fine Shearing original with excellent solos from Richards and Shearing, and Ray Bryant's "Pawn Ticket," with fine work from Thielemans and Richards. by John Bush  
Tracklist:
1 From Rags To Richards 3:12
2 I'm Left With My Blues In My Heart 2:53
Featuring [Vocals] – Dakota Staton
3 Pawn Ticket 2:19
4 In The Night 1:59
Featuring [Vocals] – Dakota Staton
5 Easy 2:39
6 I Hear Music 2:30
Featuring [Vocals] – Dakota Staton
7 Senor Blues 3:45
8 Confessin' The Blues 2:43
Featuring [Vocals] – Dakota Staton
9 Later 2:49
10 The Thrill Is Gone 3:04
Featuring [Vocals] – Dakota Staton
11 The Late, Late Show 2:31
12 I'd Love To Make Love To You 2:43
Featuring [Vocals] – Dakota Staton
Credits:
Bass – Al McKibbon
Bongos, Congas [Conga Drum] – Armando Peraza
Drums – Percy Brice
Guitar, Harmonica – Jean ''Toots'' Thielemans
Piano – George Shearing
Vibraphone – Emil Richards

DAKOTA STATON - Dakota + Dakota Staton Sings Ballads And The Blues (2012) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tracklist:
Dakota
1 Rock Me To Sleep 2:33
Benny Carter / Paul Vandervoort II
2 Don't Leave Me Now 2:51
3 If I Love Again 2:25
J.P. Murray / Ben Oakland
4 Make Me a Present of You 3:39
Joe Greene
5 On Green Dolphin Street 1:57
6 Everybody's Somebody's Fool 3:16
7 Weak For the Man 2:33
Jeanne Burns
8 Meet Me At No Special Place 2:39
Arthur Terker
9 The Masquerade is Over 3:43
Herbert Magidson / Allie Wrubel
10 Pick Yourself Up 2:07
Dorothy Fields / Jerome Kern
11 I'll Close My Eyes 3:19
Buddy Kaye / Billy Reid
12 Trapped 2:26
Jeanne Burns
Dakota Staton Sings Ballads And The Blues
13 Someone To Watch Over Me 3:03
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
14 I Need Your Love So Bad 2:36
15 Why Don't You Think Things Over 3:14
H. Friedlander
16 Romance In the Dark 2:27
Lil Green
17 My One and Only Love 2:41
Robert Mellin / Guy Wood
18 Love Me 2:35
Alston 
19 I'll Know 3:05
Frank Loesser
20 Where Flamingos Fly 2:39
Jimmy Kennedy / Mischa Spoliansky
21 Time Was 3:26
22 My Babe 2:13
Willie Dixon
23 Come Home  2:53
Robert Johnson
24 Seems Like You Just Don't Care 2:13
R. McCoy
- Bonus Tracks -
25 On Chapel Hill 3:07
Sol Parker
26 Porgy 3:04
Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh
Notas
These are the original releases included on this CD:
Dakota Staton - Dakota
Dakota Staton - Sings Ballads And The Blues
Dakota Staton - Porgy / On Chapel Hill