GLORIA SMYTH + HELYNE STEWART - Like Soul! + Love Moods (2019) M4A (tracks) lossless [16bits 44.1khz]

"This release in Fresh Sound’s Best Voices Time Forgot series sees the pairing of two more overlooked albums from the late 50s and early 60s: Gloria Smyth’s Like Soul! and Helyne Stewart’s Love Moods.
The Gloria Smyth album, from World Pacific, is mixed – some of the uptempo tracks don’t sound that convincing, and although she has a forceful and strong voice, some of the inflections seem a little forced. I feel she is at her best on the slower ones and the ballads, and it is on these that her voice sounds more assured and controlled. She sings attractively on Sittin’ And Sighin’, on which she benefits from the presence of Teddy Edwards’ sensitive tenor accompaniment, and on I’ll Remember April, where both singer and saxophonist use some imaginative phrasing.
Helyne Stewart is a more rounded and stylish vocalist, with good range and accurate pitch, and a voice at times reminiscent of Dinah Washington. Once more Teddy Edwards is involved, both as arranger and as a featured soloist, with a quartet and an all-star septet that includes fellow West Coast players Frank Butler, Art Pepper, Jack Sheldon and Frank Rosolino.
Issued originally on Contemporary Records, the material is a strong selection of standards and well-known numbers and Stewart handles them well, with straightforward interpretations and good accompanying solos – Why Don’t You Do Right is an example in point. A fine follow-on from the Lil Green and Peggy Lee versions, this has blues-tinged contributions from Edwards and pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. How Deep Is The Ocean is notable for her warm and rich delivery and for Pete Jolly’s unobtrusive but soulful background piano, the higher keys riding the wave of the lush horn arrangement." by Matthew Wright
Tracklist :
GLORIA SMYTH - LIKE SOUL! (1960)
1. Running Wild  2:14
(Gibbs-Grey-Wood)
2. Billy 1:59
(Paley-Kendis-Goodwin)
3. Sittin’ and Sighin’ (Prison) 3:35
(D’Vogna White)
4. Imagination 2:59
(Burke-Van Heusen)
5. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child  2:02
(Traditional)
6. I’ll Remember April  3:20
(Raye-DePaul-Johnson)
7. I’ll Be Over  2:10
(Gloria Smyth)
8. Bye Bye Blackbird 2:13
(Henderson-Dixon)
9. When You’re Smiling  2:44
(Shay-Fisher-Goodwin)
10. Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You  2:34
(Redman-Razaf)
11. Sometimes I’m Happy  3:29
(Youmans-Caesar-Grey)
12. Time After Time 3:44
(Styne-Cahn)
13. It Don’t Mean a Thing 2:32
(Ellington-Mills)
Personnel on “Like Soul!":
Gloria Smyth, vocals
Tracks #4,6,9,12: Teddy Edwards, tenor sax; Les McCann, piano; Leroy Vinnegar, bass; Ron Jefferson, drums.
Recorded at Rex Productions Studio, Los Angeles, May 2, 1960
Tracks #1,11,13: Donald Sleet, trumpet; Daniel Jackson, tenor sax; Terry Trotter, piano; Herbie Lewis, bass; Lenny McBrowne, drums.
Recorded at Rex Productions Studio, Los Angeles, March 1960
Tracks #2,3,8: Teddy Edwards, tenor sax (out #2); Ronnie Ball, piano; Ben Tucker, bass; Al Levitt, drums.
Recorded at Sound Enterprises, Los Angeles, September 12, 1959
Tracks #7,10: Teddy Edwards, tenor sax; Joe Castro, piano; Leroy Vinnegar, bass; Billy Higgins, drums.
Recorded at Sound Enterprises, Los Angeles, September 12, 1959
Track #5: Terry Trotter, piano; Herbie Lewis, bass.
Recorded at Rex Productions Studio, Los Angeles, March 1960
HELYNE STEWART - LOVE MOODS (1961)
14. Love Is Here To Stay 3:22
(George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
15. I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You 3:49
(Ray Noble)
16. My Heart Belongs To Daddy 2:04
(Cole Porter)
17. That Old Feeling 3:01
(Lew Brown / Sammy Fain)
18. This Love Of Mine 3:48
(Henry W. Sanicola, Jr. / Sol Parker / Frank Sinatra)
19. The Man I Love 3:11
(George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
20. Why Don't You Do Right? (Give Me Some Money Too) 2:56
(Kansas Joe McCoy)
21. How Deep Is The Ocean 3:25
(Irving Berlin)
22. Easy To Love 3:35
(Cole Porter)
23. Besame Mucho 3:24
(Sunny Skylar / Consuelo Velázquez)
24. My Silent Love 3:05
(Edward Heyman / Dana Suesse)
25. This Can't Be Love 2:13
(Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers)
Personnel on "Love Moods":
Helyne Stewart, vocals
Tracks #14,19,21,24: Teddy Edwards Septet
Jack Sheldon, trumpet; Frank Rosolino, trombone; Art Pepper, alto sax; Teddy Edwards, tenor sax, arranger; Pete Jolly, piano; Jimmy Bond, bass; Frank Butler, drums.
Recorded at Contemporary Records, Los Angeles, January 20, 1961
Tracks #15,16,17,18,20,22,23,25: Teddy Edwards Quartet
Teddy Edwards, tenor sax, arranger; Phineas Newborn, Jr., piano; Leroy Vinnegar, bass; Milt Turner, drums.
Recorded at Contemporary Records, Los Angeles, August 21 & 22, 1961

PHINEAS NEWBORN JR - Here Is Phineas (1958-2004) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Other than two numbers cut for the Progressive label in Houston a couple years earlier (and thus far never reissued), this Atlantic session (put out as a Koch CD in 1999) was the recording debut for the remarkable Phineas Newborn. The 24-year-old pianist's playing on this trio/quartet date with bassist Oscar Pettiford and drummer Kenny Clarke (and occasionally guitarist Calvin Newborn) is virtuosic to say the least, on Oscar Peterson's level if not Art Tatum's. Newborn rips through the repertoire (which is highlighted by "Barbados," "Celia," "Daahoud," and "Afternoon in Paris"); try to tap your foot to "Celia" without breaking your ankle! In the liner notes, George Wein faults Newborn's tendency to double time the ballads, and some listeners may shake their heads at his constant outpouring of technically impossible runs (those speedy octaves are ridiculous) -- but if one has chops on this level, one should feel free to display them. This is a dazzling debut from an ill-fated but classic pianist, and this CD is a gem. by Scott Yanow
Tracklist:
1 Barbados 4:00
Written-By – Charlie Parker
2 All The Things You Are 7:22
Written-By – Hammerstein-Kern
3 The More I See You 3:59
Written-By – Harry Warren, Mack Gordon
4 Celia 3:05
Written-By – Bud Powell
5 Dahoud 3:32
Written-By – Clifford Brown
6 Newport Blues 4:31
Written-By – Phineas Newborn Jr.
7 I'm Beginning To See The Light 3:03
Written-By – Don George, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Johnny Hodges
8 Afternoon In Paris 6:46
Written-By – John Lewis 
Credits:
Bass – Oscar Pettiford
Drums – Kenny Clarke
Guitar – Calvin Newborn
Piano – Phineas Newborn Jr.