Witchcraft

by Chris Connor

Witchcraft cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1959
  • Label: Atlantic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:21
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Demonstrating her cool, remarkably subtle phrasing, the vocalist navigates a beautifully arranged set of standards orchestrated by Richard Wess. Her slightly husky tone and impeccable rhythmic placement provide a deeply swinging, yet profoundly relaxed counterpoint to the brassy big band charts. The record is highly celebrated as one of the definitive vocal jazz statements of the late 1950s.

Genres

Descriptors: vocal, melodic, rhythmic, lounge, ballad

Tracklist

  1. Witchcraft (3:08)
  2. I'll Never Be Free (2:46)
  3. The Lady Sings the Blues (3:44)
  4. Come Rain or Come Shine (2:48)
  5. When Sunny Gets Blue (4:16)
  6. How Little We Know (2:36)
  7. I Hear the Music Now (2:20)
  8. Baltimore Oriole (3:30)
  9. Just in Time (2:27)
  10. Like a Woman (2:42)
  11. Skyscraper Blues (4:15)
  12. You Don't Know What Love Is (3:44)

Credits

  • Chris Connor - primary artist, vocals
  • Richard Wess - arranged by [arrangements], conductor
  • Milt Hinton - bass
  • Bobby Rosengarden - bongos
  • Maurice Brown - cello
  • Sidney Edwards - cello
  • Don Lamond - drums
  • Osie Johnson - drums

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