Artist: Susannah McCorkle
Album: From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies
Genre: Vocal Jazz, Bossa Nova
Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 1999
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Laughing at Life (Todd-Kenny-Kenny-Todd) - 4:08
- Something to Live For (Strayhorn-Ellington) - 5:39
- Look for the Silver Lining (Kern-DeSylva-McCorkle) - 4:05
- Nuages (Reinhardt-Larue-McCorkle) - 5:03
- Caminhos Cruzados (Jobim-Mendonca) - 4:29
- I Wish I Were in Love Again (Rodgers-Hart) - 4:02
- I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle (Bradford) - 2:20
- Losing Hand (Calhoun) - 5:43
- I Want to Be a Sideman (Frishberg) - 4:47
- Insensatez (How Insensitive) (Jobim-DeMoraes-Gimbel) - 2:09
- A Phone Call to the Past (Mancini-Mercer) - 5:05
- Stop, Time (Shire-Maltby) - 4:20
- Wave (Jobim) - 4:12
- Blue Skies (Berlin) - 3:21
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- Personnel:
- Susannah McCorkle - vocals
- Allen Farnham - musical director, piano
- Al Gafa - electric guitar (#1,3,6,8,9,14), acoustic guitar (#2,4,5,13)
- Steve Gilmore - acoustic bass (#1-3,5-9,11,13,14)
- Rich DeRosa - drums (#1-3,5-9,11,13,14)
- Dick Oatts - tenor saxophone (#5,6,8,9,13,14), soprano saxophone (#2,3), alto flute (#2)
- Jon Gordon - alto saxophone (#3,6,14), flute (#2)
- Greg Gisbert - flugelhorn (#2,3,6), trumpet (#14)
- John Fedchock - trombone (#2,3,6,14)
Susannah McCorkle suceeds where others have failed on her latest release for Concord Jazz titled, From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies. Her silky voice wraps around the classic Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington "Something to Live For," like a velvet envelope. Filled with emotional yearning, her interpretations render the listener motionless, rapt in the charisma of her phrasing and nuance. Many of the songs are indicative of broken-hearted love including "Losing Hand," a Ray Charles blues favorite from the '50s about a woman with a man gone astray. But McCorkle changes her tune and rebounds with a vibrant remedy on "I Ain't Gonna Play No Second Fiddle," in classic Bessie Smith style. Susannah McCorkle suceeds as the voice of authority, a voice that has feeling and experience and one that respects the original content of each song. In contrast to her previous releases, the songbook stylist sings a dynamic collection of many songs associated with such artists as Billie Holiday, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chet Baker and Django Reinhardt. McCorkle's singing is straight from the heart and soul and she's clearly towering in blue skies as one of America's finest interpreters of the classic song.
Review by Paula Edelstein