Alone among those saluted in Verve's celebrated songbooks, Johnny Mercer was a lyrcist--one who collaborated with, among other composers, Harold Arlen,Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Henry Mancini, and Harry Warren. Mercer gave their sophisticated melodies old fashioned, everyday speech,culled from his Deep South boyhood.
Yet it's these songs' sheer adaptability-- the true sign of great writing--that is displayed on this specially-priced 3-CD set. How many ways can Mercer's wit and wisdom be conveyed? Two and even three versions of his chestnuts here reveal how varied Verve artists' interpretations are.
Discs one and two present vocal interpretations of Mercer songs while disc three provides instrumental versions.
(这些都是缅怀Johnny Mercer这位音乐家及哪些著名JAZZ大家优美演绎的溢美之词)
专辑实际编排顺序: DISC ONE ---BLUES IN THE NIGHT
DISC TWO---TRAV'LIN' LIGHT
DISC THREE---TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS
CD3 Blues in the Night
Recorded by Verve
Printed & Copyright 1998 PolyGram Records,lnc.
CD No. 314 553 268-2
Items
Blues In The Night (My Mama Done Tol' Me) - Louis Armstrong I Thought About You - Billie Holiday Come Rain Or Come Shine - Anita O'day Hit The Road To Dreamland - Mel Torme Dearly Beloved - Margaret Whiting Goody Goody - Buddy Rich Skylark - Ella Fitzgerald Laura - Billy Eckstine Day In-Day Out - Sarah Vaughan Early Autumn - Woody Herman I Remember You - Dinah Washington Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home - Helen Merrill & Gil Evans Too Marvelous For Words - Joe Williams Autumn Leaves - Dee Dee Bridgewater One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) - Billie Holiday Jeepers Creepers - Bing Crosby