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Phillip Manuel: Love Happened to Me
by C. Michael Bailey
MAXED OUT. Phillip Manuel enters the MAXJAZZ fray as the first male jazz vocalist in this sixth installment of the label's “Vocal Series". The previous releases, all critically welcomed, include LaVerne Butler's Blues in the City, Carla Cook's It's All About Love, Christine Hitt's You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To, Asa Harris All In ...
Rene Marie: How Can I Keep From Singing
by C. Michael Bailey
Back To The MAX. The new jazz label, MAXJAZZ, was formally founded with the release of the first four recordings in their “Vocal Series." These recordings included LaVerne Butler's Blues In The City, Carla Cook's It's All About Love (MXJ 106), Christine Hitt's You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (MXJ 107), and Asa Harris' ...
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 1999
Track listing: 1. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To;
2. Sitting In A Tree;
3. Beautiful Love;
4. What'll I Do;
5. Dream A Little Dream Of Me;
6. Moonlight;
7. Thou Swell;
8. Sometime Ago;
9. A Time For Love;
10. Moonglow;
11. I've Got A Crush On You;
12. Joy Spring;
13. My Foolish Heart;
14. What Is This Thing Called Love;
15. In A Mellow Tone.
It
By Carla Cook
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 1999
Track listing: Until I Met You; Inner City Blues; The Way You Look Tonight; September Song; Can
Blues in the City
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 1999
Track listing: This Bitter Earth; Please Send Me Someone to Love, Hit the Road Jack; Willow Weep for Me; The Blues are Out of Town; One for My Baby; Late Sunday Afternoon; I
All In Good Time
By Asa Harris
Label: MAXJAZZ
Released: 1999
Track listing: The Song Is You; Daydream; A Time For Love; The Late, Late Show; Love for Sale; It Never Was You; The Jitterbug Waltz; These Foolish Things; Wave; Someone To Watch Over Me; Tuxedo Junction; Die Moritat Von Mackie Messer; Lullaby of Birdland. (Total Playing Time 55:49).
Carla Cook: It
by C. Michael Bailey
Ditto...LaVerne Butler...And More. In the beginning, Richard McDonnell had a vision that became incarnate with LaVerne Butler’s Blues in the City 1. He saw that this was good and decided that Ms. Butler must have company 2. McDonnell, in his infinite and far-seeing wisdom, provided the Butler creation with mates, the first being Carla Cook’s It’s ...
Asa Harris: All In Good Time
by C. Michael Bailey
The Vocal Series. Borrowing the majority of Christine Hitt’s band from her recording You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To. (MAXJAZZ 107), vocalist Asa Harris makes her MAXJAZZ debut with a collection of standards that is unique in itself. The fourth in a Vocal Series released by the new label, Harris is preceded by the ...
Christine Hitt: You
by C. Michael Bailey
Diana Krall, et al. With Love Scenes, Diana Krall has made a huge name for herself singing standards in a sexy breathy voice. No less talented, Christine Hitt, a Minnesota-born singer/pianist, caught the eye of MAXJAZZ’s Richard McDonnell who in turn caught her in the electronic medium of the compact disc, You’d Be So Nice to ...
LaVerne Butler: Blues in the City
by C. Michael Bailey
In the Tradition. Was Bessie Smith a “blues singer” or a “jazz singer”? What about Dinah Washington? Billie Holiday is an easier case. She recorded only two true twelve bar blues songs. But these other artists? They are not so easy. So with the case of LaVerne Butler. The music on Blues In The City is ...
