- Format: CD
- Label: Fantasy
- Genre: Jazz
Discriminating listeners tended to become admirers of Lucy Reed from the moment they first heard her intelligent, unaffected, pitch-perfect singing. Among them were Woody Herman and Charlie Ventura, who hired her to sing with their bands. Later, she turned down an offer from Duke Ellington because the travel would have threatened a stable life for her young son. Even though her two albums for Fantasy in the 1950s took her to a national audience, she stayed near home base in Chicago and never knew fame in proportion to her talent. In this 1957 collection, she sings with eight- and nine-piece bands led by George Russell and Gil Evans, two of the most important arrangers in jazz history, and a quintet arranged by pianist Eddie Higgins.
Track listing:There He Goes, Lucky to Be Me, (In The) Wee Small Hours (Of The Morning), St. Louis Blues; Easy Come, Easy Go; Love For Sale, Little Boy Blue; A Trout, No Doubt; Born to Blow The Blues, This Is New, No Moon at All, You Don't Know What Love Is
Recorded in New York City and Chicago; January 1957
