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Release Date

1962

Duration

37:19

Genre

Styles

Recording Date

November 27, 1961 - January 27, 1962

Recording Location

  • Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, NY
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Carol Sloane

Out of the Blue

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Carol Sloane, who made a strong impression with her performance at the 1961 Newport Jazz Festival, shortly after recorded her first album (originally on Columbia) which has been reissued on this Koch CD along with a previously unreleased "April in My Heart" and Sloane's 45 version of "I Want You to Be the First to Know." At the time, her voice sounded a little like Ella Fitzgerald's in spots, but Sloane's own personality frequently pops through. She mostly sticks to ballads, along with an occasional swinger, on this set, and the only partly identified band is mostly confined to a quiet supporting role by arrangers Bill Finegan and Bob Brookmeyer. After recording a second album for Columbia, Sloane would slip into obscurity until her rediscovery (at first by the Japanese) in the late '70s but, as this reissue shows, Carol Sloane was a highly appealing singer from the start.

Track Listing

Sample Title/Composer Performer Time
1
Duke Ellington / Irving Gordon / Irving Mills
Carol Sloane
4:19
2
Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen
Carol Sloane
2:00
3
T. B. Harms / Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
Carol Sloane
3:55
4
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin
Carol Sloane
2:30
5
Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill
Carol Sloane
2:56
6
Tom Adair / Matt Dennis
Carol Sloane
2:15
7
Mack Gordon / Harry Warren
Carol Sloane
2:33
8
Peter DeRose / Mitchell Parish
Carol Sloane
3:12
9
Lew Brown / Ray Henderson
Carol Sloane
1:57
10
Edward Heyman / Dana Suesse
Carol Sloane
3:32
11
Cole Porter
Carol Sloane
2:06
12
June Carroll / Arthur Siegel
Carol Sloane
2:35
13
Hoagy Carmichael / Helen Meinardi
Carol Sloane
3:29
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