Toppi's ladies

Ladies in Love

Toppi

Des Roaring Twenties aux Swinging Sixties, la voix féminine prend une place essentielle dans la chanson anglophone. Aux États-Unis, Connie Boswell, Ruth Etting, Annette Hanshaw et quelques Twenties Sweethearts conquièrent les coeurs d'artichaut. La délicatesse, la finesse, la liberté et la sincérité rayonnent dans la chanson de cette époque. Trente ans plus tard, à l'orée des années soixante, la maturité musicale et la force intérieure des voix féminines sont la marque de l'âge d'or du jazz vocal. Ces deux périodes sont réunies ici, pour redonner sa place à l'esthétique « Art déco » qui définit la chanson des années vingt, et souligner le parcours esthétique qui fait des années cinquante et soixante l'âge d'or du jazz vocal féminin.

From the Roaring Twenties to the Swinging Sixties, female voices became essential to the song world. In the United States, singers like Connie Boswell, Ruth Etting, Annette Hanshaw and other Twenties' sweethearts would conquer any man they met, with delicacy, elegance, freedom and sincerity shining out through every song. And by the dawn of the Sixties, thirty years later, the musical maturity and inner strength of women's voices would be trademarks in jazz. This collection represents both periods, and the songs restore the styles of these singers to their rightful place as the very definitions of what made the Fifties and Sixties a true Golden Age in vocal jazz.

CD1 Ladies in the fifties et sixties

1 Nina Simone Wild is the Wind 3'29

2 Gloria Lynne The Jazz in You 2'22

3 Nancy Wilson If Dreams Come True 1'48

4 Annie Ross You Took Advantage of Me 3'53

5 Chris Connor Something to Live For 2'15

6 Etta Jones How Deep Is the Ocean 3'32

7 Helen Humes He Don't Love Me Anymore 2'51

8 Sarah Vaughan Doodlin' 4'34

9 Aretha Franklin God Bless the Child 3'02

10 Dolores Hawkins Oooh-Wee 3'03

11 Ernestine Anderson Lazy Afternoon 2'46

12 Shirley Horn Love For Sale 3'52

13 Carmen McRae Misery 3'51

14 Anita O'Day No Moon at All 2'29

15 Peggy Lee Love Me or Leave Me 2'08

16 Dinah Shore Blues In the Night 3'46

17 Dinah Washington Is You Is or Is You Ain't my Baby 2'58

18 Julie London I'm Glad There is You 2'28

19 Nina Simone The Other Woman 3'02

20 Helen Merrill I'm A Fool to Want You 4'09

21 Rosemary Clooney It don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 2'51

22 Beverley Kenney Almost Like Being In Love 2'10

23 Linda Lawson Like Young 2'56

24 Abbey Lincoln Afro-Blue 3'18

durée totale 75'19

CD2 Sweethearts of the roaring twenties

1 Annette Hanshaw Moanin' Low 3'26

2 Annette Hanshaw Daddy, won't you Please Come Home ? 2'59

3 Connie Boswell I Cried For You 3'09

4 Ruth Etting I'm Good For Nothing But Love 3'17

5 Valaida Snow Lovable and Sweet 2'51

6 Adelaide Hall I Must Have That Man 3'06

7 Ann Suter Pu-Leeze ! Mister Hemingway 2'45

8 Mildred Bailey All Of Me 3'18

9 Ethel Waters Black And Blue 3'00

10 Helen Ward Let's Put Two and Two Together 2'47

11 Mildred Bailey Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams 3'07

12 Lee Wiley A Hundred Years From Today 3'09

13 Ella Logan I Wish I Were Twins 2'39

14 Helen Kane Is There Anything Wrong In That ? 3'07

15 Ethel Waters Bread And Gravy 2'56

16 Connie Boswell I'll Never Say « Never Again » Again 2'34

17 Mildred Bailey Georgia On My Mind 3'28

18 Frances Langford Nasty Man 2'45

19 Valaida Snow I Can't Dance 2'42

20 Ella Logan Doin' The Uptown Lowdown 2'28

21 Valaida Snow High Hat, Trumpet and Rhythm 3'03

22 Ivie Anderson Did Anyone Ever Tell You 2'55

23 Alice Faye My Future Star 3'06

24 Helen Ward Night Wind 3'13

25 Annette Hanshaw Walking My Baby Back Home 2'41

durée totale 75'24