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"Sophisticated" is the right word to describe Julie London's cool vocal approach; it can be shoved into the background, but if you listen closely there's a lot of turmoil going on under its seemingly calm surface. Similar to Chet Baker's unruffled way with a lyric, London's self-described "thimble full of a voice" ends up describing how pain hasn't quite iced over all her emotions rather than proving how unfeeling she is. Also like Baker, so many of her best recordings are steeped in the style and mood of laid-back West Coast jazz. Sophisticated Lady is one of a string of records London cut in the early '60s with less of a jazz feel than most of her sessions from the '50s, but it's still a worthy album. If it's not exactly an essential session, it is a good one, and the backing orchestra is to blame for the album's shortcomings -- not the vocalist. The charts balance a mellow -- very mellow -- kind of 1940s-era swing feeling (think of Tommy Dorsey or Glenn Miller doing a slow-dance number) with heavy string statements and semi-classical passages. They aren't particularly obtrusive or bad charts, but they are undistinguished, and the arranger for the date doesn't even get a credit on the album sleeve. It's these arrangements, not London's vocal performance, that make this a mediocre, but still worthy, album. (To hear how this approach is done correctly, just listen to Nelson Riddle's beautiful and more jazz-flavored work on Frank Sinatra's exquisite Nice 'N' Easy album.) That's not to say it's not a good disc, though, and standout tracks include Cole Porter's witty "booze as a cure for heartache" number "Make It Another Old-Fashioned Please" and three songs by writers associated with cool jazz. The Wolf/Landesman cut "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" has deservedly earned its status as a standard, but the neglected "Absent Minded Me" by Bob Merrill and Bobby Troup's "Where Am I to Go" deserve to be rediscovered and more widely recorded.
© Nick Dedina /TiVo
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Duke Ellington, ComposerLyricist - Mitchell Parish, ComposerLyricist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Edward Heyman, Author - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer - OSCAR LEVANT, Composer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Hamilton, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer - Sievier, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Richard Rodgers, ComposerLyricist - Lorenz Hart, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Frances Landesman, ComposerLyricist - Thomas Wolf, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer - JACK SEGAL, ComposerLyricist - MARVIN FISHER, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Philippe Gerard, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer - John Herndon Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Angele Marie Therese Vannier, ComposerLyricist
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Leo Robin, ComposerLyricist - Ralph Rainger, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records Inc.
Matt Dennis, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Bobby Troup, ComposerLyricist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
Bob Merrill, ComposerLyricist - Julie London, MainArtist - Si Waronker, Producer
(C) 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC
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"Sophisticated" is the right word to describe Julie London's cool vocal approach; it can be shoved into the background, but if you listen closely there's a lot of turmoil going on under its seemingly calm surface. Similar to Chet Baker's unruffled way with a lyric, London's self-described "thimble full of a voice" ends up describing how pain hasn't quite iced over all her emotions rather than proving how unfeeling she is. Also like Baker, so many of her best recordings are steeped in the style and mood of laid-back West Coast jazz. Sophisticated Lady is one of a string of records London cut in the early '60s with less of a jazz feel than most of her sessions from the '50s, but it's still a worthy album. If it's not exactly an essential session, it is a good one, and the backing orchestra is to blame for the album's shortcomings -- not the vocalist. The charts balance a mellow -- very mellow -- kind of 1940s-era swing feeling (think of Tommy Dorsey or Glenn Miller doing a slow-dance number) with heavy string statements and semi-classical passages. They aren't particularly obtrusive or bad charts, but they are undistinguished, and the arranger for the date doesn't even get a credit on the album sleeve. It's these arrangements, not London's vocal performance, that make this a mediocre, but still worthy, album. (To hear how this approach is done correctly, just listen to Nelson Riddle's beautiful and more jazz-flavored work on Frank Sinatra's exquisite Nice 'N' Easy album.) That's not to say it's not a good disc, though, and standout tracks include Cole Porter's witty "booze as a cure for heartache" number "Make It Another Old-Fashioned Please" and three songs by writers associated with cool jazz. The Wolf/Landesman cut "Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" has deservedly earned its status as a standard, but the neglected "Absent Minded Me" by Bob Merrill and Bobby Troup's "Where Am I to Go" deserve to be rediscovered and more widely recorded.
© Nick Dedina /TiVo
A proposito dell'album
- 1 disco(i) - 12 traccia(e)
- Durata totale: 00:36:16
- Artisti principali: Julie London
- Compositore: Various Composers
- Etichetta: Capitol Records
- Genere: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2012 Capitol Records, LLC ℗ 2012 Capitol Records, LLC
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