Listen & tracks
1 of 28 tracks have a preview · 14 works · 66:06
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1 Eleanor Rigby John Lennon 5:20
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2 More Than You Know Billy Rose 6:26
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3 Cats in the Kitchen Linda Cable 4:02
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4 There Will Never Be Another You Harry Warren 3:45
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5 Misty Erroll Garner 5:08
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6 Send in the Clowns Stephen Sondheim 3:54
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7 Body and Soul Edward Heyman 5:33
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8 Moondance Van Morrison 5:30
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9 When Sunny Gets Blue Marvin Fisher 5:42
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10 My Romance Richard Rodgers 3:51
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11 Come Rain or Come Shine Johnny Mercer 4:49
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12 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me Duke Ellington 3:12
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13 Am I Blue Grant Clark 5:04
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14 Like Someone in Love Jimmy Van Heusen 3:50
Including Eleanor Rigby, More Than You Know, Body and Soul, Moondance, Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Misty, Send in the Clowns, Like Someone in Love, When Sunny Gets Blue and Am I Blue.
London-born Linda Cable began singing the blues in Australia and shaped a distinctive voice that made her a fixture in Australian jazz. This programme of fourteen tracks ranges from cool and slinky readings to uptempo numbers and moody ballads. One of them, Cats in the Kitchen, is her own composition.
The original version of Cats in the Kitchen, with other adventurous original material, appears on her first album Ya-de-ya.
Reviews
This album proves that Cable is a mature and intelligent stylist, who tastefully selects from her wide range of effects to convincingly sell each type of song in a strong album.
Melbourne singer Linda Cable is all class ... One of the best vocal albums of the year.
Artists
Linda Cable
vocals
London-born Linda Cable built her singing career in Australia, moving from blues into a distinctive jazz style. She is known for a strong, clear voice on up-tempo numbers, moody ballads and her own songs.
Harold Arlen
composer
Harold Arlen (1905–1986) was an American composer of popular song whose work sits at the heart of the Great American Songbook. He wrote the complete score for the film The Wizard of Oz, including Over the Rainbow.
Johnny Burke
composer
Johnny Burke wrote the words to some of the most durable standards in the Great American Songbook, including Like Someone in Love, It Could Happen to You and Misty, songs that still sit at the heart of jazz and popular singing.
Duke Ellington
composer
Duke Ellington wrote jazz that slips past easy labels: three-minute standards thick with colour, growl and hush, and longer suites built for the voices of a big band. His orchestra was the instrument; the songs still own the night.
Lorenz Hart
composer
Lorenz Hart's lyrics for Rodgers and Hart still sit at the heart of the jazz and cabaret songbook: witty, conversational, and edged with a rueful tenderness that singers and players keep returning to.
Jimmy Van Heusen
composer
Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the melodies that still sit at the centre of the jazz and popular songbook: film and stage standards built for crooners, bands and late-night rooms, from Darn That Dream to Come Fly with Me.
John Lennon
composer
John Lennon's songs cut through styles and decades with plainspoken hooks and melodies that refuse to age. From Beatles classics to the solo anthem Imagine, his writing keeps finding new voices in jazz rooms, a cappella circles and the concert hall.
Paul McCartney
composer
Paul McCartney's songs travel far beyond their rock origins. Melodic, singable and built for reinvention, they turn up here in jazz sets, a cappella harmony, intimate guitar ballads and even harpsichord with drums and bass.
Johnny Mercer
composer
Johnny Mercer's lyrics still define how jazz singers tell a story: conversational, witty and shot through with Southern colour, from torch laments to swing anthems and Hollywood standards that refuse to age.
Richard Rodgers
composer
Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) was an American composer of musical theatre whose songs became standards of the twentieth-century stage and screen. Over five decades he wrote more than nine hundred songs and dozens of Broadway musicals.
Stephen Sondheim
composer
Stephen Sondheim wrote music and lyrics that pushed the American musical into darker, more ambivalent territory. His songs move with intricate craft: sharp rhymes, restless harmony, and melodies that catch at regret, wit and longing.
Vincent Youmans
composer
Vincent Youmans wrote lean Broadway songs built from short repeated phrases and subtle harmonic turns. Tea for Two, I Want to Be Happy and More Than You Know became lasting standards, still favoured by jazz players.
Harry Akst
composer
Grant Clark
composer
Edward Eliscu
composer
Frank Eyton
composer
Marvin Fisher
composer
Erroll Garner
composer
Erroll Garner's ballad Misty has become one of the most durable jazz standards, its long singing line and easy harmonic lift still inviting singers and instrumentalists. As a pianist he was known for swing, whimsical introductions and a right hand that floated just behind the beat.
Mack Gordon
composer
Mack Gordon wrote the words to classic popular standards, among them the enduring ballad There Will Never Be Another You.
John Green
composer
Edward Heyman
composer
Van Morrison
composer
Van Morrison is the composer of the song Moondance, recorded on Move in a cappella and jazz settings.
Steven Porter
composer
Billy Rose
composer
Bob Russell
composer
Jack Segal
composer
Robert Sour
composer
Harry Warren
composer
Harry Warren (1893–1981) was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. Over six decades he wrote more than 800 songs, many of which became lasting standards of the Hollywood musical.
Performers
- Linda Cable · vocals
- Peter Jones · piano
- Ben Robertson · acoustic bass
- Tony Floyd · drums
- Bill Harrower · saxophone
Technical credits
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Producer
Peter Jones
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Recording Engineer
Mark McDougall
Melita Jagic
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
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Venue
RBX Studios, Richmond
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Credit
Howard Birnstihl
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 66 minutes 6 seconds
- Release date
- 1 Jun 1991
- Categories
- Jazz, Vocal
- Genres
- Jazz & Improvised, Vocal & Opera
- Musical work copyright
- © 1991 Linda Cable
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1991 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3099
- EAN
- 9314574309928
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