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Helen Merrill – You’ve Got A Date With The Blues (Remastered) (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:22 minutes | 324 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
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Helen Merrill dates are always something special. This set for Metrojazz, which has been reissued as a Verve CD, matches the cool-toned yet inwardly heated singer with an all-star sextet arranged by Quincy Jones and featuring solos by trumpeter Kenny Dorham and either Frank Wess or Jerome Richardson on flute and tenor. The repertoire includes versions of “You Go to My Head” and “Just Squeeze Me” sung in French, a couple of numbers by producer Leonard Feather, Duke Ellington’s “The Blues From Black, Brown and Beige,” and a haunting rendition of “The Thrill Is Gone.”

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Helen Merrill – This is…Helen Merrill! Vol. 4 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:54 minutes | 512 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) is an American jazz vocalist. Her first album, the eponymous 1955 release “Helen Merrill”, was an immediate success and associated her with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians. After a prolific 1950s and ’60s when she recorded with Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, Merrill spent time recording and touring in Europe and Japan, falling into obscurity in the United States. In the 1980s and ’90s, a contract with Verve Records and high-profile performances in America returned her to prominence. Noted for her emotional, sensual vocal performances, her career continues in its sixth decade with concerts and recordings.

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Helen Merrill – This is…Helen Merrill! Vol. 3 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:04 minutes | 458 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) is an American jazz vocalist. Her first album, the eponymous 1955 release “Helen Merrill”, was an immediate success and associated her with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians. After a prolific 1950s and ’60s when she recorded with Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, Merrill spent time recording and touring in Europe and Japan, falling into obscurity in the United States. In the 1980s and ’90s, a contract with Verve Records and high-profile performances in America returned her to prominence. Noted for her emotional, sensual vocal performances, her career continues in its sixth decade with concerts and recordings.

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Helen Merrill – This Is…Helen Merrill! Vol. 2 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:59 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) is an American jazz vocalist. Her first album, the eponymous 1955 release “Helen Merrill”, was an immediate success and associated her with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians. After a prolific 1950s and ’60s when she recorded with Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, Merrill spent time recording and touring in Europe and Japan, falling into obscurity in the United States. In the 1980s and ’90s, a contract with Verve Records and high-profile performances in America returned her to prominence. Noted for her emotional, sensual vocal performances, her career continues in its sixth decade with concerts and recordings.

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Helen Merrill – This is…Helen Merrill! Vol. 1 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:34 minutes | 502 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic) is an American jazz vocalist. Her first album, the eponymous 1955 release “Helen Merrill”, was an immediate success and associated her with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians. After a prolific 1950s and ’60s when she recorded with Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown, Merrill spent time recording and touring in Europe and Japan, falling into obscurity in the United States. In the 1980s and ’90s, a contract with Verve Records and high-profile performances in America returned her to prominence. Noted for her emotional, sensual vocal performances, her career continues in its sixth decade with concerts and recordings.

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Helen Merrill – The Nearness Of You (1958/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:46 minutes | 332 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“The Nearness of You” is the fifth studio album by American jazz vocalist Helen Merrill. It includes performances of standards from two sessions with completely different lineups of accompanying musicians. The later session from February 21, 1958, features very notable jazz performers such as pianist Bill Evans and bassist Oscar Pettiford.

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Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill…With Strings! (1955/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:53 minutes | 409 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“Helen Merrill with Strings” is the second album by Helen Merrill, featuring the singer fronting a quartet augmented by a string section arranged by Richard Hayman, recorded in 1955 and originally released on the EmArcy label.

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Helen Merrill – Dream Of You (1957/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:30 minutes | 567 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“Dream of You”, the third studio album by Helen Merrill, was arranged and conducted by Gil Evans. This recording immediately preceded the first of Evans’ famous albums with Miles Davis, “Miles Ahead”. In 1987, Merrill and Evans reunited to record new versions of the same songs for the album Collaboration. This reissue of “Dream of You” includes additional tracks.

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