The Newest Sound Around

by Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1962
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 53:00
  • Community rating: 4.01/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Ran Blake

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released by RCA Victor, this fiercely uncompromising debut pairs vocalist Jeanne Lee with pianist Ran Blake. Stripping jazz standards down to their absolute barest, most haunting essentials, their avant-garde, starkly minimalist approach completely defied the typical swing and bop vocal conventions of 1962.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, avant-garde, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Laura (with Ran Blake) (5:10)
  2. Blue Monk (with Ran Blake) (4:45)
  3. Church on Russell Street (with Ran Blake) (3:11)
  4. Where Flamingos Fly (with Ran Blake) (4:16)
  5. Season in the Sun (with Ran Blake) (2:29)
  6. Summertime (with Ran Blake) (4:31)
  7. Lover Man (with Ran Blake) (5:12)
  8. Evil Blues (with Ran Blake) (3:05)
  9. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (with Ran Blake) (2:42)
  10. When Sunny Gets Blue (with Ran Blake) (4:52)
  11. Love Isn't Everything (with Ran Blake) (1:18)
  12. Vanguard (with Ran Blake) (3:13)
  13. Left Alone (with Ran Blake) (2:51)
  14. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands (2:06)
  15. Straight Ahead (with Ran Blake) (3:11)

Credits

  • Jeanne Lee - primary artist, vocals
  • Ran Blake - primary artist, piano
  • Ed Begley - engineer
  • Lewis Layton - engineer
  • Gunther Schuller - liner notes
  • George Avakian - producer

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