Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues

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Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
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Studio album by Peggy Lee
Released 1988
Recorded February 1988
Genre Jazz
Length47:49
Label Musicmasters Records
Producer Gregory K. Squires
Peggy Lee chronology
Close Enough for Love
(1979) Close Enough for Love1979		Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
(1988)		 Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen
(1988) Love Held Lightly: Rare Songs by Harold Arlen1988

Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues is a 1988 studio album by jazz singer Peggy Lee. [1] This was Lee's first album for nine years, and the first of two albums that she recorded for the Musicmasters label.

Peggy Lee American singer, songwriter, composer and actress

Norma Deloris Egstrom, known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and performer. During her career, she wrote music for films, acted, and recorded conceptual record albums that combined poetry and music.

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Scott Yanow reviewed the album for AllMusic and wrote that "By 1988, 68-year-old Peggy Lee did not have much of a voice left. Although she was still determined, physical problems had weakened her, and despite Gene Lees' absurd raving in the liner notes ("Her work has never flagged, the quality of it has never faltered"), this set finds her way past her prime." Yanow described the material as "pretty strong" and praised the quintet that supported Lee on the album, and concluded his review by writing that "This is one of the better releases from Peggy Lee's later years, but it still pales next to her 1950s recordings." [1]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

AllMusic Online music database

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Track listing

  1. "See See Rider" (Ma Rainey, Traditional) – 5:06
  2. "Basin Street Blues" (Clarence Williams) – 3:10
  3. "Squeeze Me" (Fats Waller, Williams) – 2:47
  4. "You Don't Know" (Walter Spriggs) – 4:09
  5. "Fine and Mellow" (Billie Holiday) – 5:13
  6. "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Williams) – 3:25
  7. "Kansas City" (Leiber and Stoller) – 3:43
  8. "Birmingham Jail" (Traditional) – 4:15
  9. "Love Me" (Joe McCoy) – 4:10
  10. "Beale Street Blues" (W. C. Handy) – 2:52
  11. "'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do" (Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins, Williams) – 5:45
  12. "God Bless the Child" (Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jr.) – 3:14

Personnel

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Mike Renzi pianist, arranger, musical director

Michael E. Renzi is an American composer, music director, pianist and jazz musician. He was musical director for Peggy Lee and Mel Torme for over 25 years. He is also friends and partners with jazz singer Cynthia Crane, with whom he has published a Christmas album titled "Our First Christmas". Renzi also has his own jazz group called "The Mike Renzi Trio", which published an album together with tenor sax legend Ben Webster.

Piano musical instrument

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