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Johnny Hartman: Johnny Hartman The Complete Gus Wildi Recordings
by Marcia Hillman
Johnny Hartman recorded these 25 songs, all standards and each a special performance, for Gus Wildi's Bethlehem Records during 1955 and 1956. On the first twelve tracks (released on From The Heart), Hartman is backed by trumpeter Howard McGhee, pianist Ralph Sharon, bassist Jay Cave and drummer Christy Febbo. Hartman approaches each song in a straightforward ...
Joe Wilder: A True Living Legend
by Greg Thomas
Joe Wilder, a true living legend of the trumpet, is at long last getting what fellow brass great Roy Eldridge used to call “his screen credits . After 60+ years of superlative support work in big bands, Broadway pit orchestras and commercials, Wilder is finally headlining his own quartet at the Village Vanguard. ...
Alas, Poor Ghost: Echoes of Johnny Hartman
by Alexander M. Stern
At the time of his death in 1983, Johnny Hartman was already a ghost. A supreme interpreter of ballads with a lush, velvety baritone, Hartman combated indifference for nearly forty years, his one moment in the sun a 1963 collaboration with saxophonist John Coltrane's classic quartet. That album, the superb John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, is ...
Johnny Hartman: The Perception Years
by AAJ Staff
On this two-fer disc of early '70s albums Today and I’ve Been There, the voice that went almost note for note with John Coltrane does what he does best and more (or less). Though chock full of Mercer-ized timeless ballads, this oft-dynamic duo also offers more dated and perhaps less well chosen selections. The albums range ...
The Voice That Is!
Label: Impulse!
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. My Ship
2. The More I See You
3. These Foolish Things
4. Waltz for Debby
5. It Never Entered My Mind
6. The Day the World Stopped Turning
7. A Slow Hot Wind
8. Funny World
9. Joey, Joey, Joey
10. Let Me Love You
11. Sunrise, Sunset
Johnny Hartman: The Voice That Is!
by AAJ Staff
The lush baritone voice of Johnny Hartman enriched many big bands in the Forties and Fifties including Dizzy Gillespie's and Erol Garner's. But in the sixties he recorded many fine albums as leader and with all-star small groups. Although not as popular as some of his other releases, “The Voice That Is" is an exceptional showcase ...
And I Thought About You
Label: Roost
Released: 1997
Track listing: 1. Mam'selle
2. To Each His Own
3. Sunday
4. Alone
5. Long Ago (And Far Away)
6. I Should Care
7. Little Girl Blue
8. But Beautiful
9. After You've Gone
10. There'a a Lull in My Life
11. How Long Has This Been Going On?
12. I Thought About You
