Jazz Articles about Ruth Cameron

About Ruth Cameron

Album Review

A follow on to Ruth Cameron's first album for Verve, First Songs, her latest album also features a class standard play list with some differences. The most significant one is playing time. Her first album didn't even hit the 26-minute mark, while this one offers more than an hour of music. The theme of this album is music one heard at road houses during the 1950's. The roadhouses I frequented during this period were noted for louder, more up tempo ...

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Album Review

Ruth Cameron: Roadhouse

by Mathew Bahl
December 1, 2000

The skepticism that greeted Ruth Cameron's debut album, First Songs, was palpable. Fairly or unfairly, the CD was considered by many to be less about the discovery of a new jazz singer than about Verve keeping its star bassist Charlie Haden, Ms. Cameron's husband, happy. Although it proved she was a good singer, Ms. Cameron's work on First Songs failed to overcome the presumption of nepotism. Roadhouse, her second CD, is the work of a singer with great, if still ...