''Sings Standards'' is a
compilation album
A compilation album comprises Album#Tracks, tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several Performing arts#Performers, performers. If by one artist, then generally the tr ...
by American
jazz singer
Cassandra Wilson, released in 2002.
[ Allmusic entry for ''Sings Standards''Retrieved October 2009.]
Track listing
# "
Polka Dots and Moonbeams" (
Jimmy Van Heusen
James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990) was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song.
Life and care ...
,
Johnny Burke) — 5:45
# "
I Wished on the Moon
"I Wished on the Moon" is a song composed by Ralph Rainger, with lyrics by Dorothy Parker. Bing Crosby sang the song in ''The Big Broadcast of 1936''.
Crosby recorded the song on August 14, 1935 with The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra and it reached ...
" (
Ralph Rainger,
Dorothy Parker) — 3:33
# "
'Round Midnight" (
Thelonious Monk,
Cootie Williams
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams (July 10, 1911 – September 15, 1985) was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.
Biography
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Williams began his professional career at the age of 14 with the Yo ...
,
Bernie Hanighen
Bernard D. Hanighen (April 27, 1908 in Omaha, Nebraska – October 19, 1976 in New York City, New York) Attended Hackley School (Tarrytown, New York) - Class of 1926, also attended Harvard University - Class of 1930. He was an American songwrit ...
) — 5:57
# "
Angel" (
Carolyn Franklin, Sonny Saunders) — 4:39
# "
I've Grown Accustomed to His Face" (
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre bot ...
,
Frederick Loewe
Frederick Loewe (, originally German Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe ; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988) was an Austrian-United States, American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including ''Br ...
) — 5:14
# "
Chelsea Bridge" (
Billy Strayhorn
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger, who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include "Take ...
) — 6:30
# "
I'm Old Fashioned" (
Jerome Kern,
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallich ...
) — 3:06
# "
Baubles, Bangles & Beads
"Baubles, Bangles & Beads" is a popular song from the 1953 musical '' Kismet'', credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest.
Background
Like almost all the music in that show, the melody was based on works by Alexander Borodin, in this case th ...
" (
Robert Wright,
George Forrest George Forrest may refer to:
*G. Topham Forrest (George Topham Forrest, 1872–1945), principal architect for the London County Council
*George Forrest (author) (1915–1999), American author and musician
*George Forrest (botanist) (1873–1932), S ...
) — 6:36
# "
Blue Skies" (
Irving Berlin) — 3:09
# "
Blue in Green
"Blue in Green" is the third tune on Miles Davis' 1959 album, ''Kind of Blue''. One of two ballads on the LP (the other being "Flamenco Sketches"), the melody of "Blue in Green" is very modal, incorporating the presence of the Dorian, Mixolydi ...
" (
Miles Davis,
Bill Evans
William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block ch ...
) — 4:09
# "
Body and Soul" (
Edward Heyman,
Robert Sour,
Frank Eyton
Frank Eyton (30 August 1894 – 11 November 1962) was an English popular music lyricist best known for co-writing the lyrics of Johnny Green's " Body and Soul" (1930) with Edward Heyman and Robert Sour. Frank Eyton biographyat Allmusic - retrieved ...
,
Johnny Green
John Waldo Green (October 10, 1908 – May 15, 1989) was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, conductor and pianist. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earli ...
) — 10:39
Personnel
*Cassandra Wilson – vocals, acoustic guitar
*Terri Lyne Carrington – drums
*Mark Johnson – drums
*Kevin Bruce Harris – bass
*
Lonnie Plaxico – bass
*Reggie Washington – bass
*
Mulgrew Miller – piano
*James Weidman – piano
*Rod Williams – piano
*
Jean-Paul Bourelly
Jean-Paul Etienne Bourelly (born November 23, 1960) is an American guitarist whose music crosses the boundaries of jazz fusion and rock.
Bourelly was born in Chicago, Illinois, to parents from Haiti. His grandmother taught him Yoruba music. When ...
– guitar
*
Grachan Moncur III – trombone
Production notes
*Jean-Paul Bourelly – producer
*Steve Coleman – producer
*Richard Seidel – producer
*Danny Kopelson – engineer, mixing
*Kevin Reeves – mastering
*Mark Smith – production assistant
*Hollis King – art direction
*John Abbott – photography
*Tom Terrell – liner notes
*Ken Druker – executive producer
*Peter Pullman – editing
Chart performance
References
{{Cassandra Wilson
Cassandra Wilson albums
2002 compilation albums