John Cameron

Cover Lover (EMI 1966, STEREO) & Warm and Gentle (EMI Studio 2 Stereo 1968)

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Vocalion CDSML 8478

The multi-talented composer-arranger-pianist John Cameron is the subject of this release, which compiles two albums he recorded for EMI in the late 1960s. The intriguingly titled Cover Lover (1966) finds John playing piano and singing on twelve of his original compositions, accompanied by an all-star line-up that includes Ronnie Ross (alto/baritone sax, bass clarinet), Spike Heatley (bass), Tony Carr (drums), Art Ellefson (tenor sax) and Ray Swinfield (flute). The music is very much in the modern, swinging school of jazz, as it was in the late ’60s, while Warm and Gentle (1968) has jazz as one of its influences but is not jazz per se. Instead it features an alluring blend of lush orchestration and bossa nova elements combined with John Cameron’s distinctive brand of arranging, in a programme that contains versions of well-known pop numbers alongside Cameron originals. 

Remastered from the original analogue tapes. 

Track listing:

Cover Lover

1: Cover Lover (Cameron) 2

2: Waiting for Herbert (Cameron) 2

3: The Jester (Cameron) 2

4: Ballad of a Middlesized Gentleman (Cameron) 1

5: The Loneliest Monk (Cameron; Monk) 3

6: Helen of Troyland (Cameron) 4

7: Boffin and Ping (Cameron; Heatley) 1

8: Walk Small (Cameron) 5

9: Benny South Street (Cameron; Heatley) 1

10: Here are the Blues (Cameron) 1

11: Set ’em Up Joe (Cameron) 1

12: You Owe Me (Cameron) 2  

Soloists

1 John Cameron (piano, harpsichord, vocals)

Ronnie Ross (alto/baritone sax, bass clarinet)

Spike Heatley (bass); Tony Carr (drums)

2 as 1 plus Art Ellefson (tenor sax)

3 John Cameron (solo piano)

4 as 1 plus brass & percussion

5 as 4 plus Ray Swinfield (flute)

Recorded at PYE Studios, Marble Arch, London 31 March 1966

Recording engineer: Michael Weighell

Producer: Fiona Bentley

Warm and Gentle

13: Warm and Gentle (Cameron)

14: Let’s Go to San Francisco (Carter; Lewis)

15: When Lights are Low (Kahn; Koehler; Fiorito)

16: Here, There and Everywhere (Lennon; McCartney)

17: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to (Porter)

18: Silence is Golden (Crewe; Gaudio)

19: Mexico (Sand and Foam) (Leitch)

20: Till There Was You (Willson)

21: Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag) (R & R Sherman)

22: Autumn Leaves (Kosma; Mercer; Parsons; Prevert)

23: Once There Was You (Cameron)

24: Summertime (G & I Gershwin; Heyward)

Recorded at Abbey Road Studio No.3, London

Conducted by Bill Le Sage

Producer: John Cameron

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