GLORIA SMYTH LIKE SOUL! + HELYNE STEWART LOVE MOODS (2 LP ON 1 CD)

 

The Best Voices Time Forgot

Collectible Albums by Top Female Vocalists

 

· Collector's Edition

· 2 Original LPs on 1 CD

· Original Cover Art, Liner Notes

· Complete Personnel Details

· Stereo Recordings

· Newly Remastered in 24-Bit

 

Like Soul!:

On Like Soul!, we can hear Gloria Smyth—a younger singer of boundless energy, with a warm and appealing feel for lyrics. She shows influences of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday, but happily for her, she is also sufficiently individual to escape most comparisons. Miss Smyth was no stranger to the nitery circuit, having worked Fack’s, San Francisco; Mister Kelly’s, Chicago; the Key Club, Minneapolis; and the Village Vanguard, New York. She sings with definite jazz feeling, and is backed by four distinct groups composed of some of the top jazz musicians from the West Coast: Teddy Edwards, Les McCann, Lennie McBrowne and the Ronnie Ball Trio. A happy atmosphere prevails on these fine sessions, all of which share a sense of mutual support and engagement by players on top of their game.

 

Love Moods:

On the album Love Moods, Teddy Edwards’ uncluttered septet arrangements aimed to provide a comfortable setting for his protégé Helyne Stewart, a soulful, subtle singer whom Edwards admired from the first time he heard her. On this joyful debut shesings with a really lovely voice, swinging wonderfully on a set of well-known songs, backed by a superb group including three great horn players, trumpeter Jack Sheldon, trombonist Frank Rosolino, and altoist Art Pepper. For the remaining tracks, Edwards used his own quartet featuring the thoughtful pianist Phineas Newborn, along with bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Milt Turner in a fine rhythm section which contributes significantly at key points to the success of the album.

 

01. Running Wild (Gibbs-Grey-Wood) 2:14

02. Billy (Paley-Kendis-Goodwin) 1:59

03. Sittin’ and Sighin’ (Prison) (D’Vogna White) 3:35

04. Imagination (Burke-Van Heusen) 2:59

05. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Traditional) 2:02

06. I’ll Remember April (Raye-DePaul-Johnson) 3:20

07. I’ll Be Over (Gloria Smyth) 2:10

08. Bye Bye Blackbird (Henderson-Dixon) 2:13

09. When You’re Smiling (Shay-Fisher-Goodwin) 2:44

10. Gee Baby Ain’t I Good to You (Redman-Razaf) 2:34

11. Sometimes I’m Happy (Youmans-Caesar-Grey) 3:29

12. Time After Time (Styne-Cahn) 3:44

13. It Don’t Mean a Thing (Ellington-Mills) 2:32

14. Love Is Here to Stay (G. & I. Gershwin) 3:21

15. I Hadn’t Anyone ‘till You (Ray Noble) 3:49

16. My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Cole Porter) 2:05

17. That Old Feeling (Fain-Brown) 3:01

18. This Love of Mine (Parker-Sanicola-Sinatra) 3:48

19. The Man I Love (G. & I. Gershwin) 3:09

20. Why Don’t You Do Right (Joe McCoy) 2:56

21. How Deep Is the Ocean (How High Is the Sky) (Irving Berlin) 3:25

22. Easy to Love (Cole Porter) 3:34

23. Bésame Mucho (Skylar-Velázquez) 3:23

24. My Silent Love (Suesse-Heyman) 3:05

25. This Can’t Be Love (Rodgers-Hart) 2:12

 

Sources:

Tracks # 1-13, from the Gloria Smyth album “Like Soul! (World Pacific Stereo-1293)

Tracks #14-25, from the Helyne Stewart album “Love Moods” (Contemporary S7601)

 

Personnel on “Like Soul!":

Gloria Smyth, vocals

Tracks #4,6,9,12: Teddy Edwards, tenor sax; Les McCann, piano; Leroy Vinnegar, bass; Ron Jefferson, drums.

Recorded at Rex Productions Studio, Los Angeles, May 2, 1960

 

Tracks #1,11,13: Donald Sleet, trumpet; Daniel Jackson, tenor sax; Terry Trotter, piano; Herbie Lewis, bass; Lenny McBrowne, drums.

Recorded at Rex Productions Studio, Los Angeles, March 1960

 

Tracks #2,3,8: Teddy Edwards, tenor sax (out #2); Ronnie Ball, piano; Ben Tucker, bass; Al Levitt, drums.

Recorded at Sound Enterprises, Los Angeles, September 12, 1959

 

Tracks #7,10: Teddy Edwards, tenor sax; Joe Castro, piano; Leroy Vinnegar, bass; Billy Higgins, drums.

Recorded at Sound Enterprises, Los Angeles, September 12, 1959

 

Track #5: Terry Trotter, piano; Herbie Lewis, bass.

Recorded at Rex Productions Studio, Los Angeles, March 1960

 

Personnel on "Love Moods":

Helyne Stewart, vocals

Tracks #14,19,21,24: Teddy Edwards Septet

Jack Sheldon, trumpet; Frank Rosolino, trombone; Art Pepper, alto sax; Teddy Edwards, tenor sax, arranger; Pete Jolly, piano; Jimmy Bond, bass; Frank Butler, drums.

Recorded at Contemporary Records, Los Angeles, January 20, 1961

 

Tracks #15,16,17,18,20,22,23,25: Teddy Edwards Quartet

Teddy Edwards, tenor sax, arranger; Phineas Newborn, Jr., piano; Leroy Vinnegar, bass; Milt Turner, drums.

Recorded at Contemporary Records, Los Angeles, August 21 & 22, 1961

 

Liner notes by Jordi Pujol, Morris L. Roth & Leonard Feather

Photography: William Claxton / Roger Marshutz

Original recordings produced by Dick Bock & Lester Koenig

This CD compilation produced by Jordi Pujol

 

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