Etta Jones - Dont Go to Strangers '1960 [2014]
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Artist | Etta Jones Related artists |
Album name | Dont Go to Strangers |
Country | |
Date | 1960 [2014] |
Genre | Vocal Jazz |
Play time | 00:41:04 |
Format / Bitrate | 24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz |
Media | CD |
Size | 449 mb (+3\%rec.) |
Price | Download $3.95 |
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Dont Go to Strangers was Etta Jones first album for the independent jazz label Prestige when it was released in 1960 (having been recorded in a single session on June 21 of that year), and although Jones had been releasing records since 1944, including a dozen sides for RCA in 1946 and an album for King Records in 1957, she was treated as an overnight sensation when the title tune from the album went gold, hitting the Top 40 on the pop charts and reaching number five on the R&B charts. An elegant ballad on an album that had several of them, including the masterful If I Had You and a marvelous reading of All the Way, a song usually identified with Frank Sinatra, Dont Go to Strangers featured Jones airy, bluesy phrasing and uncanny sense of spacing, and was very much a jazz performance, making its success on the pop charts all the more amazing. Listen to Jones restructuring of the melody to the opening track, the old chestnut Yes Sir, Thats My Baby, to hear a gifted jazz singer sliding and shifting the tone center of a song like a veteran horn player, all the while leaving the melody still recognizable, but refreshing it until it stands revealed anew. Apparently there were no additional tracks cut at the session, since bonus material has never surfaced on any of the albums subsequent reissues, although thats hardly a problem, because as is, Dont Go to Strangers is a perfect gem of a recording. ~ Steve Leggett Tracks: 01. Yes Sir, Thats My Baby (4:23) 02. Dont Go To Strangers (3:52) 03. I Love Paris (4:01) 04. Fine And Mellow (5:53) 05. Where Or When (3:42) 06. If I Had You (3:52) 07. On The Street Where You Live (3:46) 08. Something To Remember You By (3:46) 09. Bye Bye Blackbird (3:17) 10. All The Way (4:40) Personnel: Etta Jones - vocals Skeeter Best - guitar Frank Wess - flute, tenor saxophone Richard Wyands - piano George Duvivier - upright bass Roy Haynes - drums
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- November 28, 1962 - February 12, 1963 Love Shout
- November 26, 1996 The Melody Lingers On
- July 1, 1976 Ms. Jones to You
- 2021 The Remasters [3]
- 2020 Anthology: The Deluxe Collection (Remastered)
- 2018 Don't Go To Strangers
- 2018 From The Heart [Hi-Res]
- 2018 Close to Why
- 2015 Im Pulling Through
- 2013 Etta Jones With Orchestra Arranged And Conducted By Oliver Nelson. So Warm - From The Heart
- 2011 Precious & Rare: Etta Jones The Complete 1944-1960
- 2007 The Savoy Recordings
- 2002 The Best Of Etta Jones: The Prestige Singles
- 2001 Etta Jones Sings Lady Day
- 1997 My Mother's Eyes
- 1995 At Last
- 1990 Sugar
- 1988 I'll Be Seeing You
- 1977/2003/2018 My Mothers Eyes
- 1962 Hollar!
- 1962 From The Heart
- 1962 Lonely And Blue
- 1961 So Warm
- 1960/2018 Dont Go To Strangers
- 1960 [2014] Dont Go to Strangers
- 1960 Don't Go To Strangers
- 1960 Don't Go To Strangers [RVG remasters] {2006 Prestige-Concord PRCD-30007-2}