Artist: Caterina Valente
Album: Caterina Valente '86 with The Count Basie Orchestra
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Released: 1986
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Sweet Georgia Brown (2:54)
- When in Paris Shadows Fall (4:20)
- The Breeze and I (4:00)
- Take the "A" Train (1:56)
- Lil' Darlin' (4:58)
- Poinciana (2:59)
- Cute (3:17)
- St. Louis Blues (3:48)
- Stompin' at the Savoy (2:50)
- I Love Paris (2:23)
- Solitude (3:56)
- I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (3:27)
- Malaguena (3:23)
- I'm Getting Sentimental over You (3:49)
- Till (3:19)
- Canto de Ossanha (3:53)
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This CD reissue dates from Thad Jones' single year of leadership of the Count Basie Orchestra before his health began to fail. Caterina Valente (best known as a pop singer) has a warm voice and sounds comfortable singing in a jazz-influenced middle-of-the-road style. There is little improvisation on the date and Thad Jones' arrangements leave surprisingly little space for solos; his only appearance on cornet is on "Solitude." The Basie orchestra sounds enthusiastic but is mostly restricted to ensemble and backup work, making this a dispensable and purely historic item.