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Helen Merrill recorded this lushly orchestrated album in conjunction with arranger/conductor Hal Mooney, with whom she'd previously cut a single, in early 1957. Opening with the moody and gorgeous "I'll Be Around," she moves into almost an art-song mode on "Soft as Spring," and her sound on "If I Forget You" veers perilously close to pop, complete with rippling harp arpeggios, as does "It's a Lazy Afternoon." But Merrill is so beguilingly subtle and hauntingly beautiful in her intonation, and maintains just enough of a blues base to her delivery here, that these songs remain consistent with the rest of the material and with her other output of the era. Actually, the whole album works by straddling all of this territory -- it's simply Helen Merrill and Hal Mooney bending a few genres in a more sophisticated musical setting than usual on her records. All of these elements get pulled together, and wound as tight and powerfully as possible, on the final track, "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" -- that had to be the finish, because nothing else here could top it for sheer, understated power and impact. Merrill at Midnight was also stunningly recorded, an attribute that one hopes will not be lost when and if the album ever gets reissued on CD. (As it is, the only way to get this album on CD, as of 2006, is as part of the four-CD The Complete Helen Merrill on Mercury which, itself, is out-of-print). For anyone who has it, or the old LP, this one's a keeper and in a class by itself, with lots and lots of class.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Mooney, Conductor - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Traditional, ComposerLyricist - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Mooney, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Nina Simone, Arranger, Work Arranger - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1978 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jerome Moross, ComposerLyricist - John Latouche, ComposerLyricist - Harold Mooney, Conductor - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jule Styne, Composer - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Sammy Cahn, Author - Harold Mooney, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Mooney, Conductor - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Michel Emer, ComposerLyricist - Geoffrey Parsons, Arranger, Work Arranger - Harold Mooney, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Irving Caesar, ComposerLyricist - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Harold Mooney, Conductor - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Noel Coward, ComposerLyricist - Helen Merrill, MainArtist
℗ 1957 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Edward Heyman, ComposerLyricist - Harold Mooney, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - John W. Green, ComposerLyricist - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
ALEC WILDER, ComposerLyricist - Helen Merrill, MainArtist
℗ 1957 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Billy Mure, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Milt Hinton, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Noel Coward, ComposerLyricist - Harold Mooney, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Helen Merrill, MainArtist - Marian McPartland, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Helen Merrill recorded this lushly orchestrated album in conjunction with arranger/conductor Hal Mooney, with whom she'd previously cut a single, in early 1957. Opening with the moody and gorgeous "I'll Be Around," she moves into almost an art-song mode on "Soft as Spring," and her sound on "If I Forget You" veers perilously close to pop, complete with rippling harp arpeggios, as does "It's a Lazy Afternoon." But Merrill is so beguilingly subtle and hauntingly beautiful in her intonation, and maintains just enough of a blues base to her delivery here, that these songs remain consistent with the rest of the material and with her other output of the era. Actually, the whole album works by straddling all of this territory -- it's simply Helen Merrill and Hal Mooney bending a few genres in a more sophisticated musical setting than usual on her records. All of these elements get pulled together, and wound as tight and powerfully as possible, on the final track, "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" -- that had to be the finish, because nothing else here could top it for sheer, understated power and impact. Merrill at Midnight was also stunningly recorded, an attribute that one hopes will not be lost when and if the album ever gets reissued on CD. (As it is, the only way to get this album on CD, as of 2006, is as part of the four-CD The Complete Helen Merrill on Mercury which, itself, is out-of-print). For anyone who has it, or the old LP, this one's a keeper and in a class by itself, with lots and lots of class.
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
A proposito dell'album
- 1 disco(i) - 11 traccia(e)
- Durata totale: 00:34:22
- Artisti principali: Helen Merrill
- Compositore: Various Composers
- Etichetta: Verve Reissues
- Genere: Jazz
© 2006 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 1957 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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