I'm Shooting High

I'm Shooting High Artist: Ann Richards
Label: Capitol
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988006829824
ASIN: B000803EVO


Release Date: 2005-06-29

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Tracks:

  1. I'm Shooting High
  2. Moanin' Low
  3. Nightingale
  4. Blues in My Heart
  5. I've Got to Pass Your House to Get to My House
  6. Deep Night
  7. Poor Little Rich Girl
  8. Should I?
  9. I'm in the Market for You
  10. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
  11. Lullaby of Broadway
  12. Will You Still Be Mine?

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Underrated singer; forgotten classic.......2006-09-26

Ann Richards was one of the joys of vocal jazz - an exuberant singer with a spicy, brassy style who inspires a love of music and of life. If you dig Billie or Ella, Ann will thrill you with a markedly different approach. She has a trumpet-like conception in contrast to Ella's more tenor-sax evocative style. Instead of Billie's profound melancholy, Ann seems to be saying, "here I am, world! Let's have fun!" This CD is a beautiful remastering job of her very first album from 1957. The big-band arrangements are reminiscent of Kenton, with whom Ann had worked, and they suit her very well. Her renditions of "Will You Still Be Mine" and the title track are the musical equivalent of a fine gourmet coffee - you get a very pleasant buzz. So tragic that her life did not turn out to be what this record promises. I wish she was still with us. But her few albums are testimony to her unique musical personality, and they all should be given the loving treatment so evident on this exemplary reissue.

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