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Ann Hampton Callaway - Easy Living (1999) {Sin-Drome}

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Ann Hampton Callaway - Easy Living (1999) {Sin-Drome}

Ann Hampton Callaway - Easy Living (1999)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork (600dpi, png) | 430 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 251 mb
Jazz, Vocal Jazz | Label: Sin-Drome Records - SD 8934

This is Ann Hampton Callaway's seventh recording, Easy Living, is one of her very best. It's a program of well-known standards and fairly stock arrangements, but in the middle is her pristine, well-defined, flexible voice. She retains a lower-end range in her style that suggests only one singer: Sarah Vaughan. She's joined by several different rhythm sections and soloists, including pianists Benny Green (six cuts), Bill Charlap (five), and Kenny Barron (two); bassists Peter Washington or Neal Miner; drummers Clarence "Tootsie" Bean and Lewis Nash; percussionist Jim Saporito; saxophonists Andy Farber, Nelson Rangell, and Gerry Niewood; and on three selections, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

Ann Hampton Callaway - Easy Living (1999) {Sin-Drome}


A collection of love songs sung convincingly and with no frills, Callaway shows great depth in ballad singing. Hard evidence is presented in her takes of "Skylark" and "The Very Thought Of You," with Charlap's glistening piano tones ringing bells for the singer and Farber's tenor sax replies. "'Round Midnight" is the penultimate interp with Barron's wistful piano and Marsalis' spare trumpet offering advice on ol' midnight. Callaway can swing well when she chooses; "Easy To Love" brings home her lower dulcet tones, while Farber's tenor cops a Stan Getz-Joe Henderson type plea bargain.

Ann Hampton Callaway - Easy Living (1999) {Sin-Drome}


Green's intro to "Nice Work If You Can Get It" has a "Giant Steps" quote before the singer digs into this lyric. She scats a little during the middle of the program, on the melody line, and the coda, of "Bluesette," and more in the improvised bridge during "It Had To Be You." Bossa nova is always a sidebar for singers, and Callaway uses this Brazilian rhythm on an interesting arrangement of "You Don't Know What Love Is" spiked with high drama, Saporito's Latin percussion, Barron's deft piano, and Niewood's flavorful tenor. The lone composition of the vocalist "Come Take My Hand" is also bossa, with Rangell's flute chirping on this definitive love anthem.

Ann Hampton Callaway - Easy Living (1999) {Sin-Drome}


Marsalis is also bolder on the stark ballad title track and a nice version of "In A Sentimental Mood," while it's the singer getting brash and daring in a lower tone than normal for perhaps the highlight "All Of You," Green's piano matching the depths of Callaway's yearnings. It's not hyperbole to understand this is the perfect singer with a perfect voice that sounds so effortless, mature, and flowing. Though the others six recordings are just fine, this one really hits the spot, especially instrumentally. Callaway proves up to the challenge with every measure, phrase, and inflection.
Michael G. Nastos


Tracklist:

01. Easy To Love
02. 'Round Midnight
03. Come Take My Hand
04. Easy Living
05. All Of You
06. Bluesette
07. It Had To Be You
08. In A Sentinmental Mood
09. You Don't Know What Love3:59
10. Come Rain Or Come Shine
11. Skylark
12. Nice Work If You Can Get It
13. The Very Thought Of You

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

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Ann Hampton Callaway / Easy Living

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