“Lovely vocals and piano duo (with Liam Noble) on a repertoire of sentient standards in which Wardell provides a model of the jazz singer’s art. There’s no urgent huffing and puffing at the melody, no finger snapping or mad-cap-scatting, just crystal clear diction, sensitive readings of the text, and an acute ear for the meaning of the lyrics.”
Phil Johnson, The Guardian.
Musicians
Liam Noble, piano
Track List
- I’ve Never Been in Love Before
(Frank Loesser) - September in the Rain
(H Warren/A Dubin) - Why Do You Cry
(Anita Wardell) - Twisted
(Wardell Gray/Annie Ross) - In Love in Vain
(Jerome Kern/Leo Robin) - Do You Know What it Means? (to Miss New Orleans)
(Eddie De Lange/Louis Alter) - Bye Bye Blackbird
(Henderson) - Oh! What a Beautiful Morning
(Oscar Hammerstein/Richard Rogers) - Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love
(Charles Mingus) - Deep Purple
(Peter DeRose)