Portrait of Sheila
by Sheila Jordan
- Type: Album
- Released: January 1963
- Label: Blue Note
- Country: United States
- Length: 39:45
- Community rating: 3.94/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
In her breathtaking debut, Sheila Jordan establishes herself as a fiercely original vocalist with remarkable improvisational instincts. Her incredibly intimate, almost conversational delivery breathes fresh, melancholic life into traditional standards over a sparse hard bop backing.
Genres
Descriptors: ballad, improvisation, acoustic, vocal, minimal
Tracklist
- Falling in Love with Love (2:31)
- If You Could See Me Now (4:32)
- Am I Blue (4:12)
- Dat Dere (2:43)
- When the World Was Young (4:43)
- Let's Face the Music and Dance (1:14)
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh (3:11)
- Who Can I Turn To? (3:21)
- Baltimore Oriole (2:34)
- I'm a Fool to Want You (4:55)
- Hum Drum Blues (2:15)
- Willow Weep for Me (3:28)
Credits
- Sheila Jordan - primary artist, vocals
- Steve Swallow - bass
- Reid Miles - design [cover]
- Denzil Best - drums
- Barry Galbraith - guitar
- Nat Hentoff - liner notes
- Ziggy Willmann - photography by [cover photo]
- Alfred Lion - producer
- Rudy Van Gelder - recorded by
- Rodgers & Hart - written-by
- Carl Sigman - written-by
- Tadd Dameron - written-by
- Grant Clarke - written-by
- Harry Akst - written-by
- Bobby Timmons - written-by
- Johnny Mercer - written-by
- Philippe-G茅rard - written-by
- Irving Berlin - written-by
- Joe Young - written-by
- Sam Lewis - written-by
- Ted Fiorito - written-by
- Alec Wilder - written-by
- William Engvick - written-by
- Hoagy Carmichael - written-by
- Paul Francis Webster - written-by
- Frank Sinatra - written-by
- Jack Wolf - written-by
- Joel Herron - written-by
- Oscar Brown Jr. - written-by
- Ann Ronell - written-by