Joy Bryan
MAKE THE MAN
LOVE ME + JOY BRYAN SINGS (2 LPS ON 1 CD)
Personnel:
Joy Bryan
(vcl) with Wynton Kelly (p), Al Viola (g), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Frank Butler (d)
/ Jack Sheldon (tp), Bob Enevoldsen (cl, bcl, vtb), Herb Geller (cl, as), Ronny
Lang (cl, bs, as), Marty Paich (p), Red Mitchell (b), Mel Lewis (d)
Reference: FSRCD 699
As a jazz
singer, Joy Bryan still alive at the time of writing (2012) was a natural.
Despite that, the two LPs collected here are the only albums she ever made.
Highly regarded by some of the finest jazz musicians in the 50s and early 60s,
when she recorded them, Bryan sang with an unaffected warmth and innate feel
for the music.
Its
particularly true of Make The Man Love Me, where she fronts a superb rhythm
section in Wynton Kelly - whose work as accompanist and soloist must be among
the best this great pianist ever recorded - Leroy Vinnegar and Frank Butler,
with Al Viola added on guitar. There are captivating versions of the title
track, My Romance, My Funny Valentine, These Foolish Things and, above all, Old
Devil Moon, where she handles the shifting metres with total aplomb.
The second
album, Joy Bryan Sings, made four years earlier, includes West Coast jazz
royalty in Marty Paich, Herb Geller, Jack Sheldon, Bob Enevoldsen, Red
Mitchell, Mel Lewis, and Ronnie Lang. And though Paichs arrangements made it a
tighter date than its successor, there are accomplished contributions from
Sheldon and Geller in particular, with Bryan poised and at her best on an
arresting Round Midnight.
Tracklisting:
01. My
Romance (Rodgers-Hart) 2:57
02. Make The
Man Love Me (Fields-Schwartz) 4:56
03. Almost
Like Being In Love (Lerner-Loewe) 3:28
04. It Never
Entered My Mind (Rodgers-Hart) 4:02
05. East Of
The Sun (Bowman) 3:36
06. Aren't
You Glad You're You? (Van Heusen-Burke) 3:30
07. My Funny
Valentine (Rodgers-Hart) 3:54
08. Old
Devil Moon (Harburg-Lane) 4:06
09. These
Foolish Things (Link-Strachey-Marvell) 3:31
10.
Everything's Coming Up Roses (Sondheim-Styne) 3:31
11. I Was
Doin' All Right (G.& I. Gershwin) 3:00
12. Round
Midnight (Hanighen-Monk-Williams) 3:13
13. My
Shining Hour (Arlen-Mercer) 1:50
14. When The
World Was Young (Block-Mercer) 3:56
15.
Mississippi Mud (Barris-Cavanaugh) 3:13
16. My Heart
Stood Still (Rodgers-Hart) 2:45
17. You're
My Everything (Warren-Young-Dixon) 2:31
18. When
It's Sleepy Time Down South (Rene-Muse) 3:48
19. Swinging
On a Star (Burke-Van Heusen) 3:11
20. What Is
There To say? (Duke-Harburg) 2:35
21. Down The
Old Ox Road (Coslow-Johnston) 3:07
22. I Could
Write A Book (Rodgers-Hart) 2:07
Original Sources:
Tracks
#1-10, from the 12" album
Make the Man
Love Me (Contemporary S7604)
Tracks
#11-22, from the 12" album
Joy Bryan
Sings (Mode LP-108)
Personnel on #1-10:
Joy Bryan
(vocals), accompanied by Wynton Kelly (piano); Al Viola (guitar); Leroy
Vinnegar (bass); Frank Butler (drums).
Recorded at
Contemporary Records Studio, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, July 26, 28 & 29,
1961.
Personnel on #11-22:
Joy Bryan
(vocals), accompanied by Marty Paich Septet
Jack Sheldon
(trumpet); Bob Enevoldsen (clarinet, bass clarinet, valve trombone); Herb
Geller (clarinet, alto sax); Ronny Lang (clarinet, baritone, alto sax); Marty
Paich (piano); Red Mitchell (bass); Mel Lewis (drums).
Recorded at
Radio Recorders, Hollywood, June 12, 1957.
Producers:
Lester Koenig (#1-10) / Red Clyde (#11-22)
Engineers:
Roy DuNann (#1-10) / Dayton Howe (#11-22)
Photos &
cover art by Roger Marshutz (Contemporary)
Eva Diana
(Mode)
Joy Bryan
photo by Dave Pell
Produced for
CD release by Jordi Pujol
Stereo ·
24-Bit Digitally Remastered