Music Makers (album)

Music Makers (album)
Music Makers
Studio album by Helen Merrill
Released 1986
Recorded March 1986
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 47:39
Label Owl Records
Producer Jean-Jacques Pussiau, Francois LeMaire
Helen Merrill chronology
No Tears, No Goodbyes
(1984)		 Music Makers
(1986)		 Collaboration
(1986)

Music Makers is a 1986 studio album by Helen Merrill.[1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album four stars and said "all of the songs sound quite fresh, partly due to the unusual instrumentation and also partly because of the players' inventiveness".[1]

Track listing

  1. "'Round Midnight" (Bernie Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams) - 5:56
  2. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 4:28
  3. "A Tout Choisir" (Joel Holmes) - 2:08
  4. "When Lights Are Low" (Benny Carter, Spencer Williams) - 3:28
  5. "And Still She Is With Me" (Gordon Beck) - 4:52
  6. "Music Makers" (Helen Merrill, Torrie Zito, Butch Zito) - 3:11
  7. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) - 4:30
  8. "As Time Goes By" (Hermann Hupfeld) - 5:17
  9. "A Girl in Calico" (Arthur Schwartz) - 3:35
  10. "(In My) Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Gordon Mills) - 3:39
  11. "Oh, Lady Be Good!" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:40
  12. "Nuages" (Django Reinhardt) - 3:58

Personnel

Performance
Production
  • Bernard Amiard - art direction, cover art concept, cover design, design
  • Christian Orsini - cutting engineer, engineer
  • Jean-Marie Guérin - engineer
  • Laurent Peyron - engineer, mixing
  • Leonard Feather - liner notes
  • Jean-Jacques Pussiau - photography, producer
  • Francois LeMaire - producer
  • Pascal Bodin - release preparation

References

  1. ^ a b c "Music Makers". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/music-makers-r159521. Retrieved April 26, 2011. 

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