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This 1996 album was singer Andy Bey's first new release in 22 years. After an initial burst of recordings in the early '50s, Bey continued on into the '60s before his releases were fewer. In the '80s, he found work as Horace Silver's vocalist, at which time he settled in Austria. Released when Bey was living and performing in New York City, BALLADS, BLUES & BEY is a bracing return. His stirring four-octave range dances in and around the breezy chordal foundations that he builds on the piano. Finally, he explores a repertoire that has always been central to his artistry: songs by Gershwin, Porter, Ellington, Kern, and others from the era of the lightly swinging jazz ballad. His eight-minute-plus version of "You'd be so Nice to Come Home To" is a show-stopping tour-de-force.
Solo performer: Andy Bey (vocals, piano).
Personnel: Andy Bey (vocals, piano).
Liner Note Authors: Eugene Holley, Jr.; Jerry Gordon .
Recording information: Car Seltzer Studios, New York, NY (05/19/1995-05/20/1995).
Photographer: Stephanie Badini.JazzTimes (3/97, p.81) - "...here's one to savor. His voice floats in and out of a whisper. He has a quick, sometimes quivering vibrato. He often employs the falsetto range, although he has a full baritone range too. And he swings tantalizingly....With his spare, evocative piano as the only accompaniment, Bey's intimate recital of standards is something special." Ballads, Blues & Bey Music Andy Bey Ballads, Blues & Bey Songs | 1. | Someone to Watch over Me | $0.99 | |
| 2. | You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To | |
| 3. | I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | $0.99 | |
| 4. | In a Sentimental Mood | |
| 5. | Willow Weep for Me | $0.99 | |
| 6. | Yesterdays | |
| 7. | If You Could See Me Now | |
| 8. | I'm Just a Lucky So and So | |
| 9. | Day Dream | |
| 10. | Embraceable You | |
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Ballads, Blues & Bey Music Review Purchase Ballads, Blues & Bey CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Andy Bey Shades Of Bey CD (1998)
Ballads, Blues & Bey
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One hopes this gorgeous album will at last spread the news about the superb jazz vocalist/pianist Andy Bey, a well-kept secret for most of his long career. Like his contemporaries Shirley Horn and Jimmy Scott, both of whom also emerged from undeserved obscurity only in the '90s, Bey prefers to work with glacially slow tempos. But while Horn still favors dry phrasing born of years in the cabarets and Scott ever perfects his signature art of the wail, Bey's burnished, sensual baritone ...
| | Ray Brown Some Of My Best Friends Are...Singers CD (1998)
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What does a bass player do when he's recording an album as a leader? Surely not an hour's worth of bass solos! Ray Brown solved the bass player's dilemma with a series of recordings under the Some of My Best Friends Are... heading. This 1998 release is the third in the series, following the earlier Some of My Best Friends Are...Piano Players and Some of My Best Friends Are...Sax Players, and it's a gem. Featuring a sextet of fine vocalists, ranging from the well-established to the unknown, this CD is a class act from beginning to end. The rising jazz vocal superstar of the late '90s, Diana Krall, is showcased to great effect on "I Thought About You" and "Little Boy." Well-established female vocal veterans Etta Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Marlena Shaw deliver superb performances, soulfully giving master lessons in the art ...
| | Introducing...Ruben Gonzalez CD (1997)
Ballads, Blues & Bey
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The most jazz-oriented of the elderly musicians in the Buena Vista Social Club, pianist Ruben Gonzalez was 77 at the time of this CD, his debut as a leader. Although he did not even own his own piano at the time, he plays brilliantly, performing a variety of traditional melodies plus two originals, often quoting other songs and really stretching himself. His chord voicings are distinctive and very inviting, his control of the piano is quite impressive, and the music sings ...
| | Andy Bey Tuesdays In Chinatown CD (2001)
Ballads, Blues & Bey
$13.35
Recorded between June 6 and December 12, 2000. Includes liner notes by Margaret Jordan.
Vocalist/pianist Andy Bey is in fine form on Tuesdays in Chinatown, the third installment in a comeback series that began in 1995 with Ballads, Blues & Bey and continued with 1998's Shades of Bey. Here Bey continues to explore fairly eclectic repertoire. His jazz roots are well represented with standards such as "I'll Remember April," "Invitation," "Little Girl Blue," and "Just Friends." There are also two beautiful songs by Milton Nascimento, "Bridges" and "Saidas e Bandeiras" (the latter sung in Portuguese), as well as a (so-so) cover of Sting's "Fragile." ...
| | Andy Bey American Song CD (2004)
Ballads, Blues & Bey
$14.39
In a field traditionally dominated by women, jazz vocalist Andy Bey has made a name for himself as a unique song interpreter as well as a skilled pianist, his deep, resonant voice the polar opposite of the usual feminine take on the jazz legacy. While Bey's source materials have ranged far and wide over the course of his long career, AMERICAN SONG finds him sticking strictly to the tried-and-true Great American Songbook. Amazingly, Bey finds something new in old war-horses like "Lush Life," "Satin Doll," and "Speak Low."
Artfully idiosyncratic production by Herb Jordan and angular, modernistic horn arrangements from co-pianist Geri Allen don't hurt, but it is Bey's luxurious voice that truly ...
| | Andy Bey Ain't Necessarily So CD (2007) Digipak
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It took decades for Andy Bey to become an overnight success, but in the mid-'90s he was finally recognized as a premier talent, and recorded a handful of finely crafted discs. A true jazz singer avoiding monochromatic crooning, his style is deeply blue-hued, silky smooth but never slick. This live club date at Birdland in New York City was recorded in 1997, around the ...
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