A Mildred Bailey Serenade

by Mildred Bailey

A Mildred Bailey Serenade cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1950
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.04/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded near the end of her life, this 10-inch release captures the pioneering jazz vocalist's delicate, highly nuanced phrasing and pristine articulation. 'A Mildred Bailey Serenade' perfectly balances her profound blues sensibilities with the light, swinging elegance of early vocal pop. The compilation stands as a beautiful testament to a foundational, often underappreciated voice of the 1930s and 40s.

Genres

Descriptors: vocal, lounge, orchestral, crooning, old-school

Tracklist

  1. The Lonesome Road
  2. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
  3. Thanks For The Memory
  4. Lover, Come Back To Me
  5. My Melancholy Baby
  6. I'll Be Around
  7. Don't Take Your Love From Me
  8. All The Things You Are

Credits

  • Mildred Bailey - primary artist
  • George T. Simon - liner notes
  • Andy Russo - trombone
  • Gene Austin - written-by
  • Nathaniel Shilkret - written-by
  • Hank D'Amico - clarinet
  • Duke Ellington - written-by
  • Henry Nemo - written-by
  • Irving Mills - written-by
  • Leon "Chu" Berry - tenor saxophone
  • Leo Robin - written-by
  • Ralph Rainger - written-by
  • Jimmy Blake - trumpet
  • Oscar Hammerstein II - written-by
  • Sigmund Romberg - written-by
  • Eddie Sauter - arranged by
  • Red Norvo & His Band - band
  • Ernie Burnett - written-by
  • George A. Norton - written-by
  • Red Norvo - xylophone
  • Johnny Thompson - arranged by
  • Bob Kitsis - piano
  • Alec Wilder - written-by, arranged by, woodwind
  • Teddy Wilson - piano
  • Hammerstein-Kern - written-by

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