Jazz Articles about Rosemary Clooney

Rosemary Clooney: Let It Snow

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2001

Released by North Star, this album of Christmas favorites by the fabulous Rosemary Clooney was compiled by Concord Records, presumably from more than one of the many albums she has recorded for that label over the years. Anyone who has read more than a handful of this writer's reviews will be aware of his fondness for Rosie whose distinctive voice and easygoing style have always struck a responsive chord. She is, quite simply, one of the most wonderful pop singers ...

Rosemary Clooney with Big Kahuna and the Copa Cat Pack: Sentimental Journey: The Girl Singer and Her New Big Band

by Dave Nathan
October 1, 2001

The inestimable, indefatigable and indestructible Rosemary Clooney devotes her umpteenth album for Concord to her days as a girl singer. She started, as vocal fans know, with the Tony Pastor Orch. back in the 1940's which seems like eons ago, which it is. Over the years she sang with Harry James and others during her career. But although “girl singer" is in the title, her current status is quite different. As an icon singer of the Great American Songbook, the ...

Rosemary Clooney: Sentimental Journey

by Jim Santella
October 1, 2001

Rosemary Clooney's voice still sounds as warm and youthful as ever. It must be that old black magic. She sings favorite swing era songs with a trademark bounce that rings familiar time and again. Surrounded, for the most part, by big band artists, Clooney is right at home with musical arrangements crafted by John Oddo and Matt Catingub. For “I'll Be Around," she's accompanied by Catingub on piano. For “The Singer," a new song, she's accompanied by Vincent Falcone on ...

Rosemary Clooney: Legacy of Song - Original Recordings

by Dave Nathan
April 1, 2001

Having finally escaped from the artistic shackles placed on her by Mitch Miller's corn machine at Columbia, Rosemary Clooney began recording for several other labels. One of them was RCA for some productive work during the early 1960's. Tracks culled from two RCA releases make up the bulk of this compilation. Because of these albums, and others, by the 1970's Clooney had emerged as one of our great song stylists.

The best of the albums is Clap Hands! Here Comes ...

Rosemary Clooney: Rosemary Clooney: The Songbook Collection

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2001

Individually, Rosemary Clooney’s albums giving tribute to the great American song-writers of approximately the middle of the twentieth century seemed interesting, and even illuminating, as she subtly evoked the intentions of those writers by her straightforward delivery of their tunes. Little did the listeners of the six CD’s in Rosemary Clooney: The Songbook Collection realize at the time of their release in 1979 and throughout the 1980’s that a larger perspective enveloped the incremental growth of Clooney’s discography focused on ...

Rosemary Clooney: Brazil

by Dave Nathan
August 1, 2000

P>Never during her more than 50 years of performing has Rosemary Clooney sounded better than on her latest album for Concord Jazz. Long occupying a top rung on the vocalist ladder, it wasn't until she escaped from the clutches of shlock music king, Mitch Miller, at Columbia Records and signed with Concord Jazz that her prodigious talent was nurtured and brought to the fore. Of course the voice shows some wear and tear after all the years, but still oozing ...

Rosemary Clooney: Brazil

by Jim Santella
July 1, 2000

Like her songbook albums representing Harold Arlen, Jimmy Van Heusen, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, classy Rosemary Clooney’s latest release is dedicated in part to a writer of beautiful songs: Antonio Carlos Jobim. Her presentation, surrounded by an outstanding supporting cast, remains mellow, natural, and all acoustic. Tempos, for the most part, remain slow and relaxed so that an emphasis may be applied to melody and consonant harmony. Two guest vocalists join ...