Barbara Lea

The songs on this cd emotionally range from joy to despair, from innocence to cynicism, from almost rowdy to gentle and there’s more then a touch of the sexually alluring thrown in.To Them all Barbara brings her supreme musicality and totally secure intonation, perfect diction and that almost unbelievable control of tone and timbre which extracts the very essence of each piece plus a subtle swing, which informs everything she sings and all this without sounding anything but totally spontaneous. A perfect example of the art that conceals art. Putting this CD Together a few days after losing Barbara has been very sad but also exhilarating. " (from the linernotes of this cd, written by Chris Ellis)

"Her voice has acquired a depth, a deep velvet sound in her chest tones that carries smoothly into the upper register, enabling her to color her songs with exquisite shading and dynamics."- John S. Wilson, New York Times, August 16, 1975

"Barbara Lea is that rarity in this day and age, a singer whose voice is a musical instrument, whose reading of a lyric makes complete sense, who knows how to phrase and shade, has style, charm, and the ability to evoke the opulent glamour of a night on the town with caviar and champagne."- Mike Butcher, Melody Maker, London

 "...her gift for understatement, her ability to invest a song with a subliminal jazz flavor while avoiding the trap ofbending it out of shape... She can sing "I Got Rhythm" as if she were unaware that it is not supposed to be a ballad, nor is it customary to whistle, as she did, an ad-lib solo in the second chorus. .." - Leonard Feather, L.A. Times

PERSONNEL:

DAN LEVINSON, clarinet on track 10
TOM ARTIN, trombone on track 10
DICK STUDHALTER, trumpet on tracks 3, 7, 10, 16
KEITH INGHAM, piano on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18
BEN ARONOV, piano on track 13
BOB DOROUGH, piano on tracks 10, 16
HOWARD ALDEN, guitar on track 19
JAMES CHIRILLO, tracks on tracks 1, 4, 11, 16
GREG COHEN, tracks 1, 5, 8, 12, 17, 18
MURRAY WALL, bas on tracks 3, 12, 19
JIM FERGUSON, bass on tracks 3, 7, 10, 16
STEVE LITTLE, drums on tracks 5, 12, 17, 18
JOE CORUZZO, drums on tracks 10, 16

TRACKS:

01. Music Makes Me
02. Killing Time / On Second Thoughts
03. It's All In Your Mind
04. Keeping Myself For You
05. When You Want Me
06. Lullaby Of The Leaves
07. What Kind Of Man Is You
08. Why, Oh, Why
09. Blue Again
10. The Rumba Jumps
11. Where Has My Honey Gone Blues
12. Mad About You
13. April In My Heart
14. My Silent Love
15. When In Rome
16. Bread And Gravy
17. Chase Me Charlie
18. Come The Wild, Wild Weather
19. Ev'ntide

Total time: 73:21