Helen Merrill With Clifford Brown – Helen Merrill / WaxTime CD Audio 2011

UPC 8436019581643

Made in:	Europe
Released:	2011
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Hard Bop, Cool Jazz

Helen Merrill is the debut studio album by vocalist Helen Merrill, on which she is accompanied by trumpeter Clifford Brown in arrangements by Quincy Jones. Brown had recorded a similar album with Sarah Vaughan only a few days previously, on December 16 and 18, 1954.

In 1995, Merrill recorded a tribute album to Brown, who had been killed in a car accident in 1956, the year after their collaborative album was released.

Tracklist:

A1	Don't Explain	5:13
A2	You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To	4:22
A3	What's New	5:04
A4	Falling In Love With Love	3:56
B1	Yesterdays	6:01
B2	Born To Be Blue	5:15
B3	'S Wonderful	3:16
B4	Bye Bye Blackbird	2:57

Arranged By, Conductor, Liner Notes – Quincy Jones
Bass – Johnny Frigo (tracks: B4), Milt Hinton (tracks: A1, A2, B2, B3), Oscar Pettiford (tracks: A3, B1)
Cello – Oscar Pettiford (tracks: A4)
Drums – Bobby Donaldson (tracks: A3, A4, B1), Jerry Slosberg, Osie Johnson (tracks: A1, A2, B2, B3)
Flugelhorn – Mike Simpson (5) (tracks: B4)
Flute – Danny Bank (tracks: A1, A2, A4, B2 to B4)
Guitar – Barry Galbraith, Fred Rundquist (tracks: B4)
Piano – Dick Marx (tracks: B4), Jimmy Jones (3)
Trumpet – Clifford Brown
Vocals – Helen Merrill

Track B4 is a bonus track,

Recorded in New York December 22 (A1, A2, B2, B3) and December 24 (A3, A4, B1) 1954
Bonus track B4 recorded in Chicago December 18 and 19 1954.