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Originally released on Atlantic (602). Includes liner notes by Alec Wilder and Gary Kramer.
Personnel: Mabel Mercer (vocals).
Liner Note Author: Mary Ellen Mason.
Good two-record anthology that features outstanding cabaret vocalist Mabel Mercer. Her approach was brillant, but not for everyone; it was stiff by jazz phrasing standards, and put far more emphasis on technique than feeling. Yet, few have been better at doing highly stylized material. ~ Ron Wynn Art Of Mabel Mercer Music Art Of Mabel Mercer Songs Art Of Mabel Mercer Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Required listening for Cabaret Songs 101
This is quitessential Mabel Mercer. I first heard the LP
in the late 50's and life's been better ever since. But beware: don't go here if you want cutsy songs, or dumber than dumb lyrics that aren't brilliant.. or songs that are masked in big arrangements or songs that don't make you thin. Wow! One of Mabel's greatest talents was her searching out and singing songs that are like a fine port wine: songs by greats like Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Alec Wilder, Cy Coleman, Kurt Weill, Rodgers & Hart, & Hammerstein, Bart Howard, Johny Mercer, Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, and many more. Some of her songs were pulled from musicals before they hit Broadway. But Mabel found them and made them live. If you're young, take a listen and see if Mabel can touch your heart as she does my 70 year old one. It might work.
Bart Howard.
Submitted by epmusic (Elberta, AL, USA) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No ABSOLUTELY THE GREATEST!
Mabel Mercer is absolutely the greatest cabaret singer of them all time. Yes, it's an so-so-recording and not her best, and several songs (of the 28) are forgetable. And it's certainly old-fashioned, conjuring memories of well-mannered people in supper clubs in 30s and 40s Manhattan (and what's so bad about that?].
Mabel is an acquired taste; there's no one quite like her. The only singer as distinctive these days is Blossom Dearie. Mabel transformed lyrics -- Just One of Those Things, Remind Me, While We're Young -- into stories and sometimes poetry.
Listen up a few times. Slow down with Mabel. If you're lucky she'll be your friend for life.
Submitted by a reviewer (Oakland, CA)
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Personnel: John Coltrane (tenor saxophone); Alice Coltrane (piano); Jimmy Garrison (bass); Rashied Ali (drums).
Producers: John Coltrane, Bob Thiele.
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Liner Note Author: David Wild.
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