Name: About the Blues
Brand: Julie London

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

772175LP

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-05-16

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

8436559462167

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Artist

Julie London

Genre US

Jazz

Label US

Wax Time

Julie London wasn't really a jazz singer, but she possessed a definite jazz feeling and many of her finest albums (such as Julie Is Her Name and Julie...At Home) feature small-group jazz backings. About the Blues was aimed at the 1950s pop market, but it may just be her best orchestral session. Since downbeat torch songs were London's specialty, the album features an excellent selection of nocturnal but classy blues songs that play to her subtle strengths instead of against them. Likewise, Russ Garcia's clever arrangements bleed jazz touches and short solos over the solitary strings and big-band charts. Like June Christy, London usually included a couple of new songs in with a selection of standards, and her husband, Bobby Troup, wrote two excellent numbers for the album. One of them, the emotionally devastating "Meaning of the Blues," is the album's highlight, and was turned into a jazz standard after Miles Davis recorded it the same year for Miles Ahead.

About the Blues

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