Artist: Mabel Mercer
Album: Sings Cole Porter
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Label: Rhino Records
Released: 1955/1994
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- It's Delovely (3:41)
- Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (3:41)
- Experiment (3:17)
- Ours (2:49)
- After You (3:00)
- Where Oh Where (2:11)
- It's All Right with Me (2:50)
- So in Love (4:39)
- Looking at You (2:54)
- When Love Comes Your Way (3:13)
- I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple (1:51)
- Use Your Imagination (3:02)
- Ace in the Hole (2:41)
- Just One of Those Things (2:55)
- From This Moment On (5:08)
- All of You (1:26)
- Down in the Depths (1:42)
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Born at the turn of the century, Mabel Mercer dwelled at the heart of cabaret culture, first as a dancer in Paris's legendary Bricktop's and then as a singer in New York, influencing artists from Frank Sinatra to Bobby Short. Her precise articulation and developed sense of a song's drama defined cabaret singing, and those skills are ideally suited to Porter's songs, what with their sculpted ironies and casual melodies. Her art is especially apparent on Porter's less-celebrated songs--like "Ours" and "I Am Ashamed That Women Are So Simple"--the crisp minidramas and period pieces that haven't become standards. Beneath their polished surfaces and perfect diction, Mercer's performances are able to suggest different depths of character and restrained passions.
Stuart Broomer