Jazz Articles about Etta Jones

Cedar Walton: Three Sundays In The Seventies

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

Label M launched its new enterprise with a stunning live and previously unreleased concert by Stan Getz at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore. With more than 200 tapes recorded by Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society legally in its possession, the label continues to remaster and enhance the tapes from a home recorder that captured the spirit of the concerts. In some respects, the Society recorded during what has become a golden age for some of the greatest musicians in jazz.

Etta Jones: Easy Living

by Mathew Bahl
November 1, 2000

Easy Living, Etta Jones’ wonderful new CD, is a celebration of a reunion and a partnership. The partnership is, of course, Ms. Jones’ longstanding collaboration with Houston Person. Mr. Person has played on and/or produced nearly all of Ms. Jones’ recordings since 1976. The reunion is with pianist Richard Wyands who in 1960 played for Ms. Jones on her breakthrough album, Don’t Go To Strangers.

Ms. Jones’ nasal, instantly identifiable tone has only grown richer and more textured with age. ...

Etta Jones: From the Heart

by AAJ Staff
April 1, 1999

This is a sampler, not in the anthology sense but the chocolate box sense. There are bitter tastest, a creamy voice – and there’s enough sweetness for anybody. When Etta Jones hit top 40 with 1960’s “Don’t Go to Strangers’, Prestige gave her budgets most of their artists never saw – this shows their money was well-spent. In three settings (quartet, horns, and strings) Etta graces well-picked songs (both standards and new friends) with her sassy tone and and charming ...