Artist: Lee Wiley
Album: La Selection 1931-1940
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: L'Art Vocal
Released: 1995
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Take It from Me (3:49)
- Time on My Hands (3:18)
- You've Got Me Crying Again (3:06)
- A Hundred Years from Today (3:07)
- Repeal the Blues (3:07)
- Careless Love (3:13)
- Motherless Child (3:16)
- Sweet and Low Down (2:52)
- My One and Only (3:25)
- Someone to Watch over Me (3:01)
- How Long Has This Been Going On? (3:25)
- But Not for Me (2:28)
- Baby's Awake Now (3:12)
- Here in My Arms (3:24)
- Let's Fly Away (2:58)
- Let's Do It (3:18)
- Hot-House Rose (2:46)
- Find Me a Primitive Man (3:14)
- You Do Something to Me (3:02)
- Looking at You (3:22)
- Down to Steamboat Tennessee (4:31)
- Sugar (4:35)
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For vocal fans, a French label with the name L'Art Vocal seems the perfect home for the recordings of Lee Wiley, one of the most beguiling vocal jazz artists in the history of the form. 1931-1940 compiles the complete contents of her '30s discography, from her first ever turn on a record ("Take It from Me," with the Leo Reisman Orchestra) to a pair of 1940 masterpieces with the considerate piano accompanist Jess Stacy ("Down to Steamboat, Tennessee," "Sugar"). Between those are many of the most sublime performances of Wiley's medium-length career, including "A Hundred Years from Today," "Someone to Watch Over Me," and "Time on My Hands."
Review by John Bush