Terry Morel – Songs of a Woman in Love (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Terry Morel – Songs of a Woman in Love (1955/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:39 minutes | 321 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records

This 1955 session is a showcase for both Terry Morel’s vocals and her trio led by pianist Ralph Sharon and featuring flutist Herbie Mann. Terry Morel’s only release for Bethlehem and one of the few releases of her short-lived recording career, this album is sensual, smoky and moody.

Songs of a Woman in Love is a quintessential Bethlehem label release — a smoky, profoundly expressive session bathed in neon tavern light, it’s singer Terry Morel’s lone release for the label, which seemed to specialize in this kind of one-and-done snapshot of feminine malaise and melancholy. Backed by a trio led by pianist Ralph Sharon and featuring flutist Herbie Mann, Morel’s dusky, come-hither vocals mask a deeper emotional turmoil that shades songs like “Too Late Now” and “The Night We Called It a Day.” The session is devoid of all traces of the sweetness and innocence that so often define her peers, instead articulating an intimacy and intensity rare in the postwar, pre-feminist ’50s. –AllMusic Review by Jason Ankeny

Tracklist:
01. Terry Morel – How About You? (02:54)
02. Terry Morel – The Night We Called It a Day (03:15)
03. Terry Morel – The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else) (02:16)
04. Terry Morel – You Stepped out of a Dream (02:11)
05. Terry Morel – You’re Not the Kind (02:31)
06. Terry Morel – Too Late Now (02:45)
07. Terry Morel – The Gentleman Is a Dope (03:31)
08. Terry Morel – A Hundred Years from Today (02:54)
09. Terry Morel – More Than You Know (02:55)
10. Terry Morel – Who Cares? (02:24)

Personnel:
Herbie Mann – flute
Ralph Sharon – piano
Jay Cave – bass
Christy Febbo – drums
Terry Morel – vocals

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