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Don't Go to Strangers

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Yes Sir, That

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Etta Jones: Don't Go To Strangers

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2007
Track listing: Yes Sir, That's My Baby; Don't Go to Strangers; I Love Paris; Fine and Mellow; Where or When; If I Had You; On the Street Where You live; Something to Remember You By; Bye Bye Blackbird; All The Way.

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Article: Album Review

Etta Jones: Don't Go to Strangers

Read "Don't Go to Strangers" reviewed by Jim Santella


"Don't Go to Strangers was Etta Jones' trademark song. She could make any jazz standard come alive, though, and she did on this 1960 Prestige album with a line-up of jazz all-stars. Together, band and vocalist tell the stories with a genuine spirit. The sound is superb. Jones and the band are in sync, and the ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Etta Jones: Don't Go To Strangers

Read "Etta Jones: Don't Go To Strangers" reviewed by Samuel Chell


Etta Jones Don't Go To Strangers [Remastered RVG Edition] Prestige 2006 Mention Etta Jones to casual followers of the jazz vocal scene, and brace yourself for a quizzical expression in return. Or if the name produces a spark of recognition, wait long enough for the frequent retraction ("Oh, I thought ...

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Article: Profile

Remembering Etta Jones

Read "Remembering Etta Jones" reviewed by Mathew Bahl


There always seemed to be something indestructible about Etta Jones. You could hear it best on up-tempo tunes when she would swing with a joyful abandon and an almost godlike authority. But even when she sang the most tragic and heart wrenching of ballads--and she sang more than her share of tragic, heart wrenching ballads--Jones conveyed ...

Album

Long, Long Journey

Label: Private Music
Released: 2001

Album

Etta Jones Sings Lady Day

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2001

Album

Hollar

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: I See You, Our Love Is Here To Stay, Reverse the Charges, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Answer Me My Love, Looking Back, Nature Boy.

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Article: Interview

Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled

Read "Kitty Margolis and Life on the Road Less Traveled" reviewed by Mathew Bahl


The difficulty in writing about a genuinely original jazz musician is vocabulary. The old labels, those shorthand phrases jazz writers use to categorize everything, don't really apply.So what word do we use to describe Kitty Margolis? The San Francisco based vocalist does not sound quite like any other jazz singer past or present. One ...

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Article: Album Review

Etta Jones: Hollar

Read "Hollar" reviewed by David Rickert


Etta Jones is one of many singers who find it hard to escape the large shadow cast by songbirds like Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald, but still manage to create music filled with verve, grace, and sophistication. Hollar is an odd title for a record as subdued and mannered as this one is; Jones is much ...


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