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LaVerne Butler's jazz vocals on A Foolish Thing To Do emphasizes her fluid mastery of the jazz form and her genuine joy in the music. The beautiful vocalist sings 12 blues-inflected jazz gems written by some of America's most prolific songwriters on this follow-up to her chart-topping Blues In The City. Accompanied by Terrell Stafford on trumpet, Bruce Barth on piano, Darryl Hall on bass and Victor Lewis on drums, Butler opens with "A Foolish Thing To Do," a love-gone-wrong blues she co-wrote with Bruce Barth. Terrell Stafford's trumpet announces the fateful theme and punctuates Butler's vocals throughout the song before easing into a solo with a bluesy jazz dialect reminiscent of the great Louis Armstrong.LaVerne Butler takes command of the lyrics on "Make It Easy On Yourself" and finds her wringing the tears from it whereas so many other vocalists have delivered it in such a glib matter-of-fact way. In addition to the excellent string accompaniment on three compositions and Bruce Barth's piano stylings throughout this great program, LaVerne Butler's graceful creativity, tone, phrasings and emotion are among the shining elements that make up her very cool tools of vocal expression and natural talent.
© Paula Edelstein /TiVo
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LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - L Butler (BMI), MusicPublisher - B Barth (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Universal MCA Music (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Screen Gems/EMI Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Intersong USA Inc. (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Corcovado Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Wixen Music Publishing OBO Ipanema Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Taggie Music Co. (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Bruce Barth Music (BMI), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Harms Inc. (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Stratford Music Corp. (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Casa David/WB Music Corp (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
Famous Music Corp. (ASCAP), MusicPublisher - LaVerne Butler, MainArtist
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
LaVerne Butler, MainArtist - Edwin H. Morris & Co. Inc. (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
Album review
LaVerne Butler's jazz vocals on A Foolish Thing To Do emphasizes her fluid mastery of the jazz form and her genuine joy in the music. The beautiful vocalist sings 12 blues-inflected jazz gems written by some of America's most prolific songwriters on this follow-up to her chart-topping Blues In The City. Accompanied by Terrell Stafford on trumpet, Bruce Barth on piano, Darryl Hall on bass and Victor Lewis on drums, Butler opens with "A Foolish Thing To Do," a love-gone-wrong blues she co-wrote with Bruce Barth. Terrell Stafford's trumpet announces the fateful theme and punctuates Butler's vocals throughout the song before easing into a solo with a bluesy jazz dialect reminiscent of the great Louis Armstrong.LaVerne Butler takes command of the lyrics on "Make It Easy On Yourself" and finds her wringing the tears from it whereas so many other vocalists have delivered it in such a glib matter-of-fact way. In addition to the excellent string accompaniment on three compositions and Bruce Barth's piano stylings throughout this great program, LaVerne Butler's graceful creativity, tone, phrasings and emotion are among the shining elements that make up her very cool tools of vocal expression and natural talent.
© Paula Edelstein /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:05
- Main artists: LaVerne Butler
- Label: MAXJAZZ
- Genre: Jazz Vocal Jazz
(C) 2001 MAXJAZZ (P) 2001 Mack Avenue Records II, LLC
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