Aretha Franklin - Aretha With The Ray Bryant Combo VINYL LP CS8412
With a successful mix of pop and jazz standards, the super talent – Aretha had just turned 18 years old – brought her vocal chords to vibrate. Fired on with youthful élan, these evergreens sound so fresh, new and intoxicating that the question of their genre is quite irrelevant.
From a seesawing R & B ("Won’t Be Long") via bell-like waves of melody ("Over The Rainbow") right up to the freely styled, jazzy Gershwin classic "It Ain’t Necessarily So" – everything is right there! The Ray Bryant Trio – augmented with winds – proves itself a formidable ensemble with true presence yet unobtrusive accompaniment. If you compare the mature performances of Aretha Franklin in her subsequent years with Atlantic, you will soon recognise that the later 'First Lady of Soul' was in full command of her profession right from the very beginning.
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head.
Tracklist
A1 Won't Be Long
A2 Over The Rainbow
A3 Love Is The Only Thing
A4 Sweet Lover
A5 All Night Long
A6 Who Needs You?
B1 Right Now
B2 Are You Sure
B3 Maybe I'm A Fool
B4 It Ain't Necessarily So
B5 (Blue) By Myself
B6 Today I Sing The Blues
