Annie Ross - Sings A Song With Mulligan (2008)

Considering Annie Ross's justified reputation as one of the great jazz vocalists, it is disheartening to discover how few solo albums she actually released in her long career. Happily, her collaboration with fellow cool jazzmen, saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and trumpeters Chet Baker and Art Farmer alternately, is a superior session on its merits alone. As per usual with Mulligan, the accompaniment is piano-less, but Ross--who knew how to sound like a horn from her Lambert, Hendricks & Ross experience--is on firm ground here. This is not a scatting, vocalese date however. Annie sings it straight, and her versions of Leonard Bernstein's "I Feel Pretty" (from "West Side Story"), "The Lady's in Love With You," and "Give Me the Simple Life" are as notable for their wry readings of the lyric as for her winning musical style. This release contains all the sessions with annie And Mulligan plus the complete album "Annie By Candlelight" and a version of "Skylark" previously released as a single.

Tracks 1 to 16:
Annie Ross: vocals
Gerry Mulligan: baritone sax
Art Farmer: trumpet ( on tracks 1 to 6)
Chet Baker: trumpet (on tracks 7 to 16)
Bill Crow: bass (on tracks 1 to 6)
Henry Grimes: bass (on tracks 7 to 16)
Dave Bailey: drums

Bonus tracks (17 to 25):
Annie Ross: vocals
Bob Burns: clarinet
Tony Crombie: piano
Roy Plummer: bass
Lennie Rush: drums

01. I Fell Pretty (3:34)
02. I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face (3:01)
03. All Of You (2:20)
04. Give Me The Simple Life (3:36)
05. This Is Always (4:22)
06. My Old Flame (3:52)
07. This Time The Dream's On Me (3:25)
08. Let There Be Love (3:45)
09. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (3:42)
10. How About You? (2:53)
11. I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan (2:26)
12. This Is Always (4:01)
13. I don't Mean A Thing (2:11)
14. The Ladys's In Love With You (2:27)
15. You Turned The Tables On Me (3:27)
16. I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face (alternate) (3:06)
17. Gipsy In My Soul (2:41)
18. I Love Paris (2:19)
19. I Didn't Know About You (3:22)
20. The Ladys's In Love With You (2:15)
21. It Ain't What You Do (2:46)
22. Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying (4:52)
23. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (2:27)
24. Don't Worry about Me (2:19)
25. Skylark (2:57)

FLAC (RS) Part1 –- FLAC (RS) Part2 –- FLAC (RS) Part3 –- FLAC (RS) Part4 –- FLAC (RS) Part5

MP3 (RS) Part1 –- MP3 (RS) Part2