Ethel Waters - 1925-1926
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CD Details
Artist: Ethel WatersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-11-19
Music Label: Classics
Soundtracks:
- Loud Speakin' Papa (You'd Better Speak Easy to Me)
- You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
- Pickininny Blues
- Sweet Man
- Dinah
- No Man's Mamma
- Tell 'Em About Me (When You Reach Tennessee)
- Maybe Not at All
- Shake That Thing
- I've Found a New Baby
- Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
- Bring Your Greenbacks
- After All These Years
- Throw Dirt in Your Face
- I'm Saving It All for You
- Refrigeratin' Papa (Mama's Gonna Warm You Up)
- If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone)
- Satisfyin' Papa
- Sugar
- I Wonder What's Become of Joe?
- You'll Want Me Back
- Heebie Jeebies
- Ev'rybody Mess Aroun'
Music reviews of 1925-1926
Music Review: Talk about phrasing
Rating: 4 Stars
Ethel waters enuctuation and phrasing are excellant. If you like early Billie Holiday you will love her forerunner and arch enemy Ethel Waters. For her time she had such perfect timing and phrasing and each word is clear and precise though at times she tends to veer in the vaudevillian opretic style that was prevelant in her day. This is a good "old testemant to anyone considering to be a singer phrasing and enuuation is what makes a singer last! A great CD!
Description of 1925-1926
While Ethel Waters's years of fame as a singer coincided with those of Bessie Smith and the other classic blues singers, Waters's style and delivery were utterly different, even when she was singing similar material. Her voice was significantly lighter and more flexible, and there's an early grasp of jazz phrasing that often appears in these recordings from August 1925 to July 1926. It's particularly marked on "Dinah" and "Bring Your Greenbacks." Although Waters was an immensely popular and influential singer, she's better remembered today for the stage and film career of her later years. That theatrical gift is often apparent here. Along with her sophisticated jazz phrasing, Waters sings with superb diction, and she's far better at delivering narrative lyrics and the requisite comic banter than her contemporaries. Waters is accompanied here by a variety of pianists, including Pearl Wright, Fletcher Henderson, and Maceo Pinkard. Louis Hooper is particularly good on the blues of "Refrigeratin' Papa." Waters is sometimes joined by larger bands. Cornetist Joe Smith adds fine obbligatos and a solo to "I've Found a New Baby," joining with Henderson for the best jazz backing in the collection. A young Coleman Hawkins appears briefly as well, supplying bass lines on an unwieldy bass saxophone. --Stuart BroomerGeneral CDs
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