Sue Raney - "Listen Here" featuring Alan Broadbent
After their long musical partnership performing in formats ranging from Big Band to Class Jazz Trio, singer Sue Raney and pianist Alan Broadbent finally realize their long-held dream of a duo album.
One of the most underappreciated jazz vocalists of the past half-century, Sue Raney is also proving one of the most durable. They open with Dave Frishberg’s tenderly introspective ‘Listen Here’, then keep the tempo on simmer through a spectrum of major league ballads, extending from the romantic coziness of ‘My Melancholy Baby’ and ‘You'll Never Know’ to the hazy heartache of ‘He Was Too Good To Me’ and ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’. - Christopher Loudon, Jazz Times
Sue Raney gave an unofficial seminar in the art of song. A seminar, that is, that illustrated by example, not by textbooks. And the key word was “art.” Because Raney’s remarkable vocal skills were completely at the service of her creatively illuminating interpretations of material from the Great American Songbook. - Don Heckman, Crtitic
Sample MP3s and download at Amazon Music:
Listen Here
My Melancholy Baby
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
The Bad And The Beautiful
The Music That Makes Me Dance
He Was Too Good To Me
You'll Never Know
Skylark
It Might As Well Be Spring
It Never Was You
You Must Believe In Spring
There Used To Be A Ballpark
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes |
