HELEN MERRILL Complete on Mercury Gil Evans Bill Evans SEALED JAPAN 4 LP box set
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The Complete
HELEN MERRILL
On Mercury
SEALED Japanese import Vinyl 4 LP box set. Mercury Polygram Japan 826 340-1. COVER: strong VG++ still sealed, shrink wrap is peeling, some splitting on two of the box set edges. VINYL: MINT still sealed, never played.
HELEN MERRILL (vocal) with Orchestras led by GIL EVANS and QUINCY JONES and featuring Clifford Brown and Bill Evans.
Tracks from Five Original Albums ("Self Titled","With Strings","Dream of You","Merrill at Midnight","The Nearness of You") from EmArcy and Unreleased Takes
This four-LP box set has all of singer Helen Merrill's output for Mercury; only two selections for the Roost label in 1953 precede these definitive recordings. Merrill, whose warm voice was always both distinctive and flexible, could hold her own with the best jazz musicians of the era. Best known of her recordings are her classic collaborations with Clifford Brown on seven selections arranged by Quincy Jones (including "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" and "Falling in Love With Love"), but almost as significant was a notable album on which she employed the little-known Gil Evans as arranger, a year before he teamed up with Miles Davis for Miles Ahead. Other Mercury dates include work with the Johnny Richards Orchestra, arranger Hal Mooney, flutist Bobby Jaspar, and pianist Bill Evans. Highlights include "Glad to Be Unhappy," "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home," "Where Flamingos Fly," and "The Things We Did Last Summer," but all 62 selections are well worth hearing. Highly recommended. ~ Scott Yanow
Recorded between 1954 and 1958. Includes liner notes by Hiraku Aoki. Personnel includes: Helen Merrill (vocals); Gil Evans, Quincy Jones (arranger); Clifford Brown (trumpet); Hank Jones, Bill Evans (piano); Barry Garbraith (guitar), Milt Hinton, Oscar Pettiford (bass); Jo Jones (drums).
Tracklist
Record 1 18PJ-1047 (M) A1 Alone Together (Previously Issued Only As A Single)
A2 Alone Together
A3 Glad To Be Unhappy
A4 This Is My Night To Cry (Previously Issued Only As A Single)
A5 How's The World Treating You (Previously Unissued Master/Alternative Take)
A6 How's The World Treating You
A7 Don't Explain
B1 Born To Be Blue
B2 You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
B3 'S Wonderful
B4 Yesterdays
B5 Falling In Love With You
B6 What's New
Record 2 18PJ-1048 (M) C1 You Won't Forget Me
C2 Lilac Wine
C3 Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year
C4 Beautiful Love
C5 Just You, Just Me
C6 When I Fall In Love
C7 End Of A Love Affair
C8 Mountain High, Valley Low
D1 Anything Goes
D2 Comes Love
D3 I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over
D4 Wait Till You See Him
D5 He Was Too Good To Me
D6 I've Never Seen
D7 I'm A Fool To Want You
D8 Troubled Waters
Record 3 18PJ-1049 (M) E1 Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home
E2 Where Flamingo's Fly
E3 I'm Just A Lucky So And So
E4 A New Town Is A Blue Town
E5 By Myself
E6 People Will Say We're In Love
E7 You're Lucky To Me
E8 Dream Of You
F1 Blue Guitar
F2 Listen
F3 I'll Be Around
F4 Soft As Spring
F5 If I Forget You
F6 After You
F7 It's A Lazy Afternoon
Record 4 18PJ-1050 (M) G1 If You Go
G2 If Love Were All (Previously Unissued Master/Alternative Take)
G3 If Love Were All
G4 Easy Come, Easy Go
G5 The Things We Did Last Summer
G6 Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
G7 I See Your Face Before Me
G8 I Remember You
G9 Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
H1 Bye Bye Blackbird
H2 This Time The Dream's On Me
H3 Dearly Beloved
H4 Summertime
H5 Let Me Love You
H6 When The Sun Comes Out
H7 All Of You
H8 The Nearness Of You
H9 Just Imagine
***STILL SEALED***NEVER PLAYED***
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