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IT WAS ONLY A SUN SHOWER - Stomp Off CD 1422

  1. Medley:oo-oo-ooh! Honey (what You Do to Me), Ooh! that Kiss [2:33]
  2. There Must Be Somebody Else [2:51]
  3. My Baby Knows How [2:35]
  4. Close Your Eyes [3:18] MP3 Clip
  5. Tip Toe Through the Tulips [4:02]
  6. Love Me Tonight [3:30]
  7. Mine All Mine [3:12]
  8. Song of the Wanderer (where Shall I Go?) [3:19]
  9. Just Like a Melody Out of the Sky [3:19] MP3 Clip
  10. It Was Only a Sun Shower [3:18] MP3 Clip
  11. Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time [3:29]
  12. Love Me or Leave Me [2:14]
  13. Red Lips, Kiss My Blues Away [2:33]
  14. Say It Isn't So [3:30]
  15. Nobody's Using It Now [3:28]
  16. We're Back Together Again (my Baby and Me) [3:04]
  17. He's My Secret Passion [4:51]
  18. I Think You'll Like It [4:21] MP3 Clip
  19. Was It a Dream? [2:47]
  20. The Right Key But the Wrong Key Hole [3:59]
  21. I Don't Mind Walking in the Rain [2:51]
  22. Funny Dear, What Love Can Do [3:27]
  23. Got No Time [3:17]


MOON SONG - Stomp Off CD 1405

  1. Get Out And Get Under The Moon
  2. Moonglow
  3. Me And The Man In The Moon
  4. Moon Song MP3 Clip
  5. I Never Knew What The Moonlight Could Do
  6. Under The Moon (You-oo-oo-oo)
  7. Moonlight Becomes You MP3 Clip
  8. Livin' In the Sunlight, Lovin' In the Moonlight
  9. It's Only A Paper Moon
  10. Me And The Moon
  11. Moonlight And Roses
  12. (There Ought To Be A) Moonlight Saving Time
  13. The Moon Got In My Eyes
  14. On Chinese Honeymoon
  15. Moonburn
  16. When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain
  17. I Thank You, Mr. Moon
  18. Sheltered By The Stars, Cradled By The Moon MP3 Clip
  19. Moonstruck
  20. Shine On Harvest Moon
  21. I Wished On The Moon

Total Time: 78:19

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ALL MY LIFE - Azica (AJD72232)

  1. All My Life MP3 Clip
  2. Till Then
  3. Stairway to the Stars
  4. (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know
  5. Fools Rush In MP3 Clip
  6. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To MP3 Clip
  7. Blame It on My Youth
  8. Until the Real Thing Comes Along
  9. Trust in Me
  10. You Are Too Beautiful
  11. What Is There to Say
  12. It Could Happen to You
  13. I'll Look Around

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EV'RYTHING'S MADE FOR LOVE - Stomp Off CD 1393

  1. My Sin [3:31] MP3 Clip
  2. I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now [2:43]
  3. Love Is The Swetest Thing [4:23]
  4. Daddy Won't You Please Come Home [2:22] MP3 Clip
  5. Moanin' Low [5:06]
  6. Here Or There As Long As I'm With You [3:11]
  7. The Yale Blues [3:05]
  8. Carolina Moon [3:28]
  9. My Blackbrds Are Bluebirds Now [3:01]
  10. Nobady Cares If I'm Blue [3:58] MP3 Clip
  11. You Went Away Too Far (And Stayed Away Too Long) [4:43]
  12. (You Know - I Know) Ev'rything's Made For Love [2:47]
  13. Idolizing [2:33]
  14. Hangin' Around [3:02]
  15. A Hundred Years From Today [3:21]
  16. Six Feet Of Papa [3:21]
  17. Ya Gotta Know How To Love [2:28]
  18. Thinking Of You [3:01]
  19. You're Lucky To Me [2:36]
  20. Lucky Boy [3:14]
  21. Me! [2:41]
  22. The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On) [3:23]

Total Time: 73:40

 

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DEEP NIGHT - Stomp Off CD 1368

  1. Fit As A Fiddle (2:49)
  2. Keep Sweeping The Cobwebs Off The Moon (2:59)
  3. Deep Night (3:28) MP3 Clip
  4. It All Depends On You (3:14)
  5. I Have To Have You (3:12) MP3 Clip
  6. Blue, Turning Grey Over You (3:21)
  7. Me Minus You (2:43)
  8. Exactly Like You (3:17)
  9. Am I Blue? (3:15)
  10. Ain't That A Grand And Glorious Feeling? (2:58)
  11. You're The One I Care For (3:00)
  12. Twenty Million People (2:45)
  13. 'Deed I Do (2:48)
  14. Guilty (3:23)
  15. Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love (2:38)
  16. There's Something In The Air (3:01)
  17. I'm Nobody's Baby (2:54)
  18. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (2:39)
  19. Lovable And Sweet (2:57)
  20. I'm In Training For You (2:25)

Total Time: 60:39

 

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  1. At the Jazz Band Ball (2:45)
  2. Proud of a Baby Like You (3:46)
  3. Deep Harlem (3:57)
  4. Riverboat Shuffle (4:28)
  5. Davenport Blues (3:03)
  6. Jazz Me Blues (4:23)
  7. Blue River (5:14)
  8. I Need Some Pettin' (3:38)
  9. I'm Coming Virginia (4:02)
  10. Lonely Melody (3:17)
  11. Clementine (From New Orleans) (5:03)
  12. From Monday On (3:42)
  13. Singin' the Blues (5:05)
  14. There'll Come a Time (Wait and See) (3:54)
  15. Borneo (3:48)
  16. Clarinet Marmalade (4:12)
  17. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (2:52)
  18. San (3:54)
  19. Deep Down South (4:28)

Total Time: 76:54

REVIEW: All Music Guide, Scott Yanow

Barbara Rosene
All My Life
(Azica)

On her first two recordings, Deep Night and Ev'rything's Made For Love, both made for the Stomp Off label, Barbara Rosene showed how comfortable and natural she is singing material from the 1920s. Rather than copying her predecessors, she sounds very much like herself.

All My Life moves Ms. Rosene up to the 1930s, '40s and '50s, displaying her talents as a creative and warm swing singer. Her beautiful voice perfectly fits the material as does her subtle improvising. Backed by a fine jazz quintet that includes trumpeter Simon Wettenhall, Peter Martinez on clarinet and tenor, and pianist Tom Roberts, Barbara Rosene makes the vintage material sound fresh, lively and sometimes touching.

Among the highlights are such superior songs as "Till Then," "Fools Rush In," "Trust In Me" and "It Could Happen To You." It is clear, while listening to these tunes, that Barbara Rosene really knows the meaning behind the lyrics and she sometimes brings out hidden beauty in even the most familiar songs.

Even on the sadder ballads, All My Life is a musical joy. It is easily recommended.

REVIEW: Jazz Journal October 2002, John Postgate

This is not jazz singing so much as jazz-are singing. Ms. Rosene has captured with amazing accuracy the lifting inflections of white rhythm style singers from the 1920s. Among her acknowledged influences are Ruth Etting, Annette Henshaw and Connee Boswell; her flapper-like vivacity, her timing, her full voice, even the operation nuances in her vibrato, are impeccably in-period, as is her theatrical sense in dramatic numbers such as Deep Night. Giordano's Nighthawks respond with a hot music backing which is neither pastiche nor parody, and includes some convincing jazz solos. A nit-picker could complain that the band is more mid-1920s in style and the songs are more turn-of-the-1930s pops, but it does not matter; they match. And it is a pleasure to hear these old songs revisited so affectionately. Anything that succeeds gloriously in what it set out to do is rewarding, and in their nostalgic re-creations Ms. Rosene and Mr. Giordano have triumphed; but axigent readers should be warned that this is fringe jazz rather than the righteous stuff.

By the way, the personnel for the Nighthawks quoted above is collective. The musicians chop and change. Stomp-Off provides complete but user-unfriendly details, wherewith, using ticks and crosses on piece of aquared paper, 20 columns by 10, you can spend a happy hour or so working out who plays on which track but not necessarily what instrument they play, and if you listen along too, you can discover Stomp Off's mistakes, such as an unnamed trombonist on track 18 and what sounds like a bass sax on track 10.



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