Pearl Bailey - Takes Two to Tango - A Centenary Tribute - Her 26 Finest 1944-1953
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Descripción del producto L'immense personnalité de Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) est célébrée dans cette compilation follement amusante de ses meilleurs enregistrements, le meilleur de ses précédents CD. Le très risqué Takes Two to Tango était le plus grand succès de Bailey qui a donc naturellement donné son nom à cette compilation. Son caractère est mis en avant dans plusieurs duos engagés tels que A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing avec Frank Sinatra et Saturday Night Fish Fry avec Moms Mabley. Opinión Pearl Bailey had a long career, not only as singer, but also in films, theatre and TV. Officially she retired in 1975 but she returned to business temporarily, her last assignment was Peter Gunn for TV in 1989, the day before she died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on 29 March 1918, so her centenary day was close to when I listened to this tribute disc, which covers roughly the first decade of her career as gramophone singer. Tess s Torch Song (tr.2) was from her very first session on 6 January 1944 with Cootie Williams & his Orchestra, and Cootie exhibits his growl trumpet in a solo. There were a substantial number of great jazz musicians in the various orchestras accompanying her. At this first session a 19 year-old Bud Powell occupied the piano stool this might have been one of his first recordings and later on Charlie Shavers, Billy Butterfield, Taft Jordan and others played at various sessions. Pearl Baileys voice is in the mould of the contemporaneous Lena Horne and the somewhat younger Sarah Vaughan, maybe less personal than the other two, even less than the divine Ella Fitzgerald, also belonging to the same generation. Even so there are some really good songs, mostly jazz standards and evergreens. St. Louis Blues always makes its mark and with composers like Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern and even Duke Ellington there is a fair share of high class music here. Vagabond Shoes, a song I hadnt heard before, stands out, not least for the arrangement by Gil Evans and a fine trumpet solo by Chris Griffin. In Jerome Kerns Who? there is a nice clarinet solo by Johnny Mince and there is a lot more to admire. But there are also flops. The duet with Frank Sinatra is a mess, long and uninteresting, and the two duets with trumpeter and showman Hot Lips Page are rather laboured. I have a feeling that Pearl Bailey was even better in the period after this first decade. The obvious hit was of course Takes Two to Tango from 1952, and it is also placed first on the disc, thus breaking the chronology. The transfers are excellent and as usual in this series Peter Dempsey provides well researched, interesting and illuminating notes. Fans of Pearl Bailey should of course grab the opportunity and add this disc to their collections. --Göran Forsling, Musicweb-international For many I am sure Pearl Bailey's occasional appearances in films such as PORGY AND BESS, THE LANDLORD and especially CARMEN JONES have left an indelible impression and her recording career has perhaps not achieved the same level of appreciation. However, as this 26 track compilation shows, she was a highly individual performer whose sly humour permeates many of the tracks here. Her big hit from 1952, TAKES TWO TO TANGO kicks off proceedings before we backtrack to 1944 and her version of TESS'S TORCH SONG. Her duet with Frank Sinatra A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING took up both sides of a Columbia single in 1945 and is a perfect example of the 'special material' which characterised much of her output at this time, others being such as the two titles by Doris Fisher and Allan Roberts, TIRED and FIFTEEN YEARS AND I'M STILL SERVING TIME. However, she did turn to standards as well with the two Kern-Hammerstein songs, DON'T EVER LEAVE ME and WHO showing her as being well capable in this area. --Gerry Stonestreet, In Tune