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Renato Sellani
by Thomas Conrad
Renato Sellani does not have to play the piano to charm you. At the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia in July of this year, he could be seen walking his small dog Briciola through the crowded piazzas. At 82, he walks carefully, with a slight stoop. They were an endearing pair: Sellani impeccable in striped blazer ...
Helen Merrill: The Helen Merrill-Dick Katz Sessions and Casa Forte
by Samuel Chell
Music-making, from conception to realization, is contaminated by the rhetoric of personality. And even more than instrumental music, vocal performances are often poorly served by language focused on the desires and disappointments, frustrations and satisfactions of the artist's “self" rather than on the “art." But quite apart from the self-expression (since the Romantic era, a birthright ...
Mosaic Singles: The Helen Merrill Dick Katz Sessions
"This music says so much, particularly in revealing the warmth these musicians feel for each other, their interest in experimentation, and their love of their craft. In their choice of fine songs, performed in new and different settings, they invite you to become involved. Listen, and you will understand and appreciate the shade of difference here." ...
Mosaic Singles: Helen Merrill - Casa Forte
"What truly sets Helen apart, and serves as the basis for her place in the pantheon of the greatest jazz singers, is that she goes straight to the heart of the lyric and delivers it with such poignancy and feeling that you cannot escape being deeply affected. “ - Joe Sullivan, liner notes Helen Merrill is ...
Falling In Love With Love
Featuring the music of Helen Merrill
Duration: 2:23
Complete Recordings with Clifford Brown
Label: Lone Hill Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Don't Explain; Born To Be Blue; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; 'S Wonderful; Yesterdays; Falling In Love With Love; What's New?; You Won't Forget Me; Lilac Wine; Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year; Beautiful Love; Just You, Just Me; When I Fall In Love; The End Of A Love Affair; Mountain High, Valley Low; Anything Goes; Comes Love; The Masquerade Is Over; Wait Till You See Him.
Helen Merrill: Complete Recordings with Clifford Brown
by David Rickert
Many people are familiar with Clifford Brown's collaboration with Sarah Vaughan, which many consider to be a classic. Far less well-known is his record with singer Helen Merrill for Emarcy from 1954, which features a similar set up and feel. Merrill has always been on the second tier of jazz singers as far as popularity is ...
Helen Merrill: 60 anni di dolci canzoni
by AAJ Italy Staff
Intervista di João Moreira dos Santos Helen Merrill, una delle più originali cantanti di sempre, iniziò a cantare professionalmente sessant'anni fa con la Reggie Childs Orchestra. Questo fu solo l'inizio della lunga e intensa carriera di questa talentuosa figlia di immigrati croati, che entrerà nella storia del jazz con le sue incisioni in compagnia di Clifford ...
Helen Merrill: 60 Years of Warm Sweet Songs
by Joao Moreira dos Santos
One of the most distinctive jazz singers ever, Helen Merrill started singing professionally sixty years ago when her warm voice paired with the Reggie Childs Orchestra in 1946. But that was just the start of a long and vivid story which would lead the talented young daughter of Croatian immigrants to make history in jazz by ...
