ETHEL WATERS - AM I BLUE: 1921-1947
1. Down Home Blues
2. There'll Be Some Changes Made
3. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
4. Sweet Georgia Brown
5. Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night
6. Dinah
7. Maybe Not at All
8. Shake That Thing
9. Sugar
10. I'm Coming Virginia
11. Take Your Black Bottom Outside
12. Guess Who's in Town
13. Do What You Did Last Night
14. Am I Blue
15. Waiting at the End of the Road
16. You're Lucky to Me
17. Stormy Weather
18. Jeepers Creepers
19. Taking a Chance on Love
20. Cabin in the Sky
21. Happiness is something called Joe
One of the '20s female singers who broke down the walls separating jazz and blues from standards, Ethel Waters made the way plain for Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington, and was every bit their artistic equal. This Allegro collection, through its Jazz Legends series, compiles 21 tracks of Waters in her prime, singing the songs that made her famous. The title track from 1929 is the most highly regarded, although Am I Blue: 1921-1947 contains many more examples of her artistry. With just a passing nod to her background in the classic female blues ("Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night," "You Can't Do What My Last Man Did," "Do What You Did Last Night"), the disc focuses rightly on her near-definitive readings of the early century's biggest jazz standards: "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Dinah," "Stormy Weather," "I'm Coming Virginia," and "Cabin in the Sky." One of the first inhibitors of her songs, Waters convinced listeners that she felt a range of emotions -- sly and vivacious one moment, forlorn and dejected the next -- as she sang her songs, and jazz vocal music is the better for it. As mentioned earlier, one track ("Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe") is missing from the program. ~ John Bush
Personnel: Ethel Waters; Maceo Jefferson (banjo); Papa Charlie Jackson, Cordy Williams (violin); Don Redman, Garvin Bushell, Edgar Campbell (clarinet); Coleman Hawkins (bass saxophone); Harry Tate, Horace Holmes, Joe "Fox" Smith (cornet); Chink Johnson (trombone); Bill Benford, Ralph Escudero (tuba); Fletcher Henderson, J.C. Jones, Maceo Pinkard, Pearl Wright, Lester Armstead (piano); Jesse Baltimore (drums); Reggie Beane.
2. There'll Be Some Changes Made
3. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
4. Sweet Georgia Brown
5. Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night
6. Dinah
7. Maybe Not at All
8. Shake That Thing
9. Sugar
10. I'm Coming Virginia
11. Take Your Black Bottom Outside
12. Guess Who's in Town
13. Do What You Did Last Night
14. Am I Blue
15. Waiting at the End of the Road
16. You're Lucky to Me
17. Stormy Weather
18. Jeepers Creepers
19. Taking a Chance on Love
20. Cabin in the Sky
21. Happiness is something called Joe
One of the '20s female singers who broke down the walls separating jazz and blues from standards, Ethel Waters made the way plain for Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington, and was every bit their artistic equal. This Allegro collection, through its Jazz Legends series, compiles 21 tracks of Waters in her prime, singing the songs that made her famous. The title track from 1929 is the most highly regarded, although Am I Blue: 1921-1947 contains many more examples of her artistry. With just a passing nod to her background in the classic female blues ("Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night," "You Can't Do What My Last Man Did," "Do What You Did Last Night"), the disc focuses rightly on her near-definitive readings of the early century's biggest jazz standards: "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Dinah," "Stormy Weather," "I'm Coming Virginia," and "Cabin in the Sky." One of the first inhibitors of her songs, Waters convinced listeners that she felt a range of emotions -- sly and vivacious one moment, forlorn and dejected the next -- as she sang her songs, and jazz vocal music is the better for it. As mentioned earlier, one track ("Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe") is missing from the program. ~ John Bush
Personnel: Ethel Waters; Maceo Jefferson (banjo); Papa Charlie Jackson, Cordy Williams (violin); Don Redman, Garvin Bushell, Edgar Campbell (clarinet); Coleman Hawkins (bass saxophone); Harry Tate, Horace Holmes, Joe "Fox" Smith (cornet); Chink Johnson (trombone); Bill Benford, Ralph Escudero (tuba); Fletcher Henderson, J.C. Jones, Maceo Pinkard, Pearl Wright, Lester Armstead (piano); Jesse Baltimore (drums); Reggie Beane.
01 Who Said Blackbirds Are Blue
02 Young At Heart
03 My Gal Sal
04 How Are Things In Glocca Marra
05 Eli, Eli
06 The Birth Of The Blues
07 My Man
08 Come Rain or Come Shine - The Man I Love - The Floodgates Of Despair
09 The Blues In The Night
10 That's What Harlem Means To Me
11 I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
12 Easter Parade
13 You're Just In Love
14 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart - Music Maestro Please
15 The Sunny Side Of The Street
16 A Porter's Love Song To A Chambermaid
17 You Took Advantage Of Me
18 Yesterdays
19 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
20 I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues
Ethel Waters had a long and varied career, and was one of the first true jazz singers to record. Defying racism with her talent and bravery, Waters became a stage and movie star in the 1930s and '40s without leaving the U.S. She grew up near Philadelphia and, unlike many of her contemporaries, developed a clear and easily understandable diction. Originally classified as a blues singer (and she could sing the blues almost on the level of a Bessie Smith), Waters' jazz-oriented recordings of 1921-1928 swung before that term was even coined. A star early on at theaters and nightclubs, Waters introduced such songs as "Dinah," "Am I Blue" (in a 1929 movie), and "Stormy Weather." She made a smooth transition from jazz singer of the 1920s to a pop music star of the '30s, and she was a strong influence on many vocalists including Mildred Bailey, Lee Wiley, and Connee Boswell. Waters spent the latter half of the 1930s touring with a group headed by her husband-trumpeter Eddie Mallory, and appeared on Broadway (Mamba's Daughter in 1939) and in the 1943 film Cabin in the Sky; in the latter she introduced "Taking a Chance on Love," "Good for Nothing Joe," and the title cut. In later years Waters was seen in nonmusical dramatic roles, and after 1960 she mostly confined her performances to religious work for the evangelist Billy Graham. The European Classics label has reissued all of Ethel Waters' prime recordings and they still sound fresh and lively today. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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