Annie Ross feat Bucky & John Pizzarellli - To Lady With Love (2014)

As a child she sang for Duke Ellington and was praised by him. As a teenager she heard Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie and lived hippily ever affter. Well it wasn’t that simple – or easy, But if show business was in her blood, jazz crept into her bones. She rubbed elbows with Stella Brooks; subbed at the Apollo Theater for Billie Holiday and became a caring friend to Lady Day; was married to Kenny Clarke and recorded with an incipient Modern Jazz Quartet; wrote the lyrics to Wardell Gray’s “Twisted” and Art Farmer’s “Farmer’s Market” and vocally negotiated their serpentine contours with uncanny elan; was a nightclub entrepreneur in London at “Annie’s Room”; appeared with Anthony Newley in Cranks; Vanessa Redgrave in Three Penny Opera; and was directed by Robert Altman in The Player and Short Cuts.

Tracklist

1 – To Lady
2 – For All We Know
3 – I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
4 – I’m a Fool to Want You
5 – Violets for Your Furs
6 – You Don’t Know What Love Is
7 – You’ve Changed
8 – When Your Lover Has Gone
9 – I Get Along Without You Very Well
10 – It’s Easy to Remember
11 – Travlin’ Light
12 – Music Is Forever