Mildred Bailey – Sings… Me And The Blues (1957/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mildred Bailey – Sings… Me And The Blues (1957/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:13 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

In all liklihood, Mildred Bailey SINGS “Me and the Blues” is not the sort of vintage popular American vocal record that has much of a past, present, or future to boast about. And yet it is one of those records that manages to hold its own on repeated listens. If there is a question to raise it would be in regard to the joy factor, as her blues sometimes sound like they want to come across with more of a triumphant delivery than the singer can summon. But her voice is transferred quite honestly and her clean, thin, sonorous tones are inflected with a genuine blue. I haven’t heard her earlier material, so I can’t compare these mid-forties sides to the highly esteemed recordings she made in the late 1930’s with Red Norvo and others. Will Friedwald makes a disparaging remark or two about the arrangments on a few of these cuts, and the fourteen songs included are indeed drawn from four separate recording dates, ranging from March 1946 to May 1947. The good news is that Ellis Larkins plays a prominent role in much of the accompaniment, and to my ears, there is nothing overtly annoying in the band arrangements, even if, as Friedwald complains, Eddie Sauter is no Red Norvo.

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Mildred Bailey – It Had to Be You (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mildred Bailey – It Had to Be You (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:09 minutes | 823 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1907 – December 12, 1951) was a Native American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as “The Queen of Swing”, “The Rockin’ Chair Lady” and “Mrs. Swing”. Some of her best-known hits are “For Sentimental Reasons”, “It’s So Peaceful in the Country”, “Doin’ The Uptown Lowdown”, “Trust in Me”, “Where Are You?”, “I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart”, “Small Fry”, “Please Be Kind”, “Darn That Dream”, “Rockin’ Chair”, “Blame It on My Last Affair”, and “Says My Heart”. She had three singles that made number one on the popular charts.

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