Fine and Mellow (1990) I Waited for You (1994) Spectrum (1995) Yesterday, Today and Forever (1996) Manhattan Moods (1996) Trust Your Heart (1998) Live at the Village Vanguard (2001) Remember Love (2005) Dream (2010) Don't Look Back (2012) But Beautiful (2013) Feelin' Good (2015)
Recorded on December 6, 2018 at Sear Sound Studio C, NYC
1. Stolen Moments
2. Lover Man
3. Blue Monk
4. Ill Wind
5. While You're Young
6. Lady Bird
7. When I Close My Eyes
8. Prelude to a Kiss
9. Third Time Is the Charm
10. 'Round Midnight
11. Soul Mates
12. Give Me the Simple Life
13. Sugar
MUsicians:
Mary Stallings (vo)
Eddie Henderson (tp)
Vincent Herring (as, ts)
David Hazeltine (p)
David Williams (b)
Joe Farnsworth (ds)
Daniel Sandwnick (percussion, 2, 7)
最初にこのアルバムを眺めた時には、ジャズメンが書いたオリジナル曲で歌詞がついていて歌える曲を集めたアルバムかと思ったのですが、それ以外の大スタンダード曲も入っているので、Songs Were Made to Sing はどういう意図の企画なのかなと考え込んでしまいました。
ライナーノーツには
Songs Were Made To Sing, is the latest and richest manifestation of that life in jazz, with dongs that reflect on the passions and heartbreaks of youth as well as the wisdom and rewards of experience. Not one of the lyrics on the album was written by Stallings, but each one represents a chapter in her life and a piece of her soul. The incomparable singer puts her distinctive stamps on each of these 13 classics, using her gift for interpreting a lyric to transform familiar melodies int profoundly personal and captivating stories.
オリヴァー・ネルソンが書いた曲としてあまりにも有名な曲ですね。
作曲者自身が The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961) でこの曲を初録音しています。
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_and_the_Abstract_Truth
Eddie Henderson (tp), Vincent Herring (as) のソロもなかなか聴かせてくれます。
You make choices, you know what the cost is
Then, you wait 'til the bills come due
All the voices to drown out the losses
But the feeling, it stays with you
Stolen Moments, the pleasure, the memories you treasure
the fun that you had even though you were bad
and you know that you'd paid at the end of a day
don't say I told you so
Stolen Moments is just an illusion
When you speak of a love affair
Whispered comments creating confusion
With your heart and soul laid bare
Well you know what the price is and now you're in crisis
You played in a game where the rules are the same.
Take time to recover as you dream of your lover
You have yourself to blame
Lover Man
Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, and Jimmy Sherman
I don't know why but I'm feeling so sad
I long to try something I never had
Never had no kissin'
Oh, what I've been missin'
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
The night is cold and I'm so all alone
I'd give my soul just to call you my own
Got a moon above me
But no one to love me
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
I've heard it said
That the thrill of romance
Can be like a heavenly dream
I go to bed with a prayer
That you'll make love to me
Strange as it seems
Someday we'll meet
And you'll dry all my tears
Then whisper sweet
Little things in my ear
Hugging and a-kissing
Oh, what I've been missing
Lover man, oh, where can you be?
Blow ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good (no good)
Go ill wind, go away
Skies are oh so gray
Around my neighborhood, and that's no good
You're only misleadin' the sunshine I'm needin'
Ain't that a shame
It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere, when love's to blame
So ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good (no good)
You're only misleadin' the sunshine I'm needin'
Ain't that a shame
It's so hard to keep up with troubles that creep up
From out of nowhere, when love's to blame
So ill wind, blow away
Let me rest today
You're blowin' me no good (no good)
You fit together like two birds of a feather
The perfect combination and it couldn't be better
If you just say the word, he'll leave his lonely world
He'll fly with you, ladybird
Just like a robin in the harbinger of spring
He'd have this urge to fly since you've given him wings
Please don't you say goodbye, he'll have to leave the sky
He'll fly with you, ladybird
(Just fly with him, ladybird)
Cal Tjader, Mary Stallings – Cal Tjader-Plays Mary
Label: Fantasy Records
Recorded #1, 3, 6, 7 recorded at RCA Studios, Hollywood: May 19, 1961.
Other selections recorded at Sound Recorders, San Frncisco: August 11 (#2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 14) and August 19 (#5, 10, 12, 13), 1961
1. Mighty Rumblin' Blues
2. It Ain't Necessarily So
3. God Bless The Child
4. Just Squeeze Me
5. I Didn't Know About You
6. I'm Beginning To See The Light
7. Goodbye
8. Why Don't You Do Right?
9. Honeysuckle Rose
10. I'm Just A Lucky So And So
11.Ain't Misbehavin' (I'm Saving My Love For You)
12. Mr. Blues
13. Just in Time (bonus track)
14. Why Don't You Do right? (alternate)
Musicians: Mary Stallings (vo)
Cal Tjader (vibes)
Paul Horn (fl)
Clare Fischer (p, 1, 3, 6, 7)
Lonnie Hewitt (p, el p, #1, 3, 6, 7)
Victor Venegas (b)
Freddie Schreiber (b, 1, 3, 6e, 7)
Johnny Rae (ds)
彼女のデビューアルバムになります。
Mary Stallings (born August 16, 1939) ですので、彼女が22歳頃の録音になります。
ライナーノーツにはこうあります。
Not that Mary is the greatest jazz-oriented singer to open her mouth since the best days of Billie Holiday. She is, rather, a still developing young singer with splendid natural vocal equipment and an intense determination to establish her own identity -- a task which, as most singers will tell you, is far from easy.
(snip)
Like many of her contemporaries, Mary has leaned a great deal from Ray Charles, her favorite singer at the moment.
新人らしい溌溂とした緊張感あふれるアルバムです。
このアルバムと、 先ほど取り上げた Songs Were Made to Sing (2018), 79歳の録音とを聴き比べると「円熟」という意味を感じ取ることができるでしょう。
I'll never forget you.
I'll never forget you.
I'll never forget how we promised one day,
To love one another forever that way.
We said we'd never say, "Good-bye."
But that was long ago.
Now you've forgotten, I know.
No use to wonder why.
Let's say farewell with a sigh.
Let love die.
But we'll go on living,
Our own way of living.
So you take the high road and I'll take the low.
It's time that we parted,
It's much better so.
But kiss me as you go.
Good-bye.
You had plenty money, 1922
You let other women make a fool of you
Why don't you do right, like some other men do
Get out of here and get me some money too
You're sittin' down and wonderin' what it's all about
You ain't got no money, they will put you out
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too
If you had prepared twenty years ago
You wouldn't be a-wanderin' now from door to door
Why don't you do right, like some other men do?
Get out of here and get me some money too
I fell for your jivin' and I took you in
Now all you got to offer me's a drink of gin
Why don't you do right, like some other men do
Get out of here and get me some money too
Why don't you do right, like some other men do
Like some other men do
Jack Horner のイメージ画がありました
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Real_Mother_Goose/Little_Jack_Horner
No one to talk with
All by myself
No one to walk with
But I'm happy
On the shelf
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
I know for certain
The one I love
I'm through with flirtin'
It's you that I'm thinkin' of
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
Like Jack Horner
In the corner
Don't go nowhere
What do I care?
Your kisses
Are worth waitin' for
Believe me
I don't stay out late
Don't care to go
I'm home about eight
Just me and my radio
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you
Ain't misbehavin'
I'm savin' my love for you