Lurlean Hunter

• 180 GRAM VINYL LIMITED EDITION

• THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 3 BONUS TRACKS

Lurlean Hunter’s recording career lasted for nearly fifteen years, and then unexpectedly ended by the mid-1960s. Hunter (1919-1983) was working with the George Shearing Quintet in 1951 and in the mid-1950s recorded four amazing albums surrounded by jazz stars. However, her popularity faded and her last recordings date from 1964. On Night Life, she is heard with an allstar band conducted by Manny Albam and featuring Al Cohn, Joe Newman, Barry Galbraith and Hank Jones.

PERSONNEL:

• LURLEAN HUNTER - (vocals)

• MANNY ALBAN & HIS ORCHESTRA:
• Joe Newman (tp), Al Cohn (ts), Al Epstein, Ray Beckenstein (sax), Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraith (g), Milt Hinton (b), Osie Johnson (d), Manny Albam (cond)

Studio 2, New York, August 27 (A3, A6, B5-B6), August 28 (A2, A4, B1-B2)
& August 29 (A1, A5, B3-B4), 1956.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• Lurlean Hunter (vcl), Harry “Sweets” Edison (tp), Rudy Rutherford (cl), Bud Freeman (ts), Jimmy Jones (p), Jim Hall (g), George Duvivier or Trigger Alpert (b), Don Lamond (d).
• New York, August 12, 1960.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1 GEORGIA ON MY MIND
• A2 WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MADE
• A3 HAVE YOU MET MISS JONES
• A4 THAT OLD FEELING
• A5 IT’S THE TALK OF THE TOWN
• A6 GENTLEMAN FRIEND
• A7 BLUE TURNING GREY OVER YOU (*)

• SIDE B
• B1 NIGHT LIFE
• B2 IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
• B3 MOONDRIFT
• B4 SUNDAY
• B5 LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
• B6 THIS TIME THE DREAM’S ON ME
• B7 IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW (*)
• B8 BLUE AND SENTIMENTAL (*)