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Lonely and Blue (Etta Jones album)

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Released
  
1962

Artist
  
Etta Jones

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Vocal jazz

Lonely and Blue (1962)
  
Hollar! (1960-62)

Release date
  
1962

Label
  
Prestige Records

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Recorded
  
April 6 and May 4, 1962 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Length
  
49:20 CD reissue with bonus tracks

Similar
  
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Etta jones out in the cold again


Lonely and Blue is an album by jazz vocalist Etta Jones which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "Singer Etta Jones often recalls late-period Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington".

Track listing

  1. "I'll Be There" (Howard Cook) - 2:55
  2. "In the Dark" (Lil Green) - 2:55
  3. "Out in the Cold Again" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) - 3:16
  4. "I'm Pulling Through" (Arthur Herzog, Jr., Irene Kitchings) - 3:37
  5. "My Gentleman Friend" (Arnold B. Horwitt, Richard Lewine) - 2:20
  6. "I Wonder" (Cecil Gant) - 3:20
  7. "You Don't Know My Mind" (Clarence Williams) - 3:51
  8. "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) - 3:09
  9. "Good-For-Nothin' Joe" (Bloom, Koehler) - 3:50
  10. "I Miss You So" (Jimmy Henderson, Sid Robin, Bertha Scott) - 3:26 (orig. by The Cats and the Fiddle)
  11. "Trav'lin' Light" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young) - 3:43
  12. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 4:28 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "If You Are But a Dream" (Nat Bonx, Jack Fulton, Moe Jaffe) - 4:22 Bonus track on CD reissue
  14. "Cool Cool Daddy" (Traditional) - 4:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on April 6, 1962 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 10), April 13, 1962 (tracks 12-14) and May 4, 1962 (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 11)

    • Personnel

  • Etta Jones - vocals
  • Gene Ammons (tracks 12-14), Budd Johnson (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 11) - tenor saxophone
  • Patti Bown - piano
  • Wally Richardson - guitar (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 10)
  • Art Davis (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 11), George Duvivier (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 & 12-14) - bass
  • Walter Perkins (tracks 12-14), Ed Shaughnessy (tracks 1-11) - drums

    • Songs

    1I'll Be There2:51
    2In The Dark2:52
    3Out In The Cold Again3:13

    References

    Lonely and Blue (Etta Jones album) Wikipedia
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