WAY WE WERE

$16.63
Label
HIGHNOTE
Release Date
April 26, 2011
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      JONES, ETTA / PERSON, HOUSTON
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 26, 2011
    • UPC
      632375719722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      HNR757197.2
    • LABEL
      HIGHNOTE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Do Nothing till You Hear from Me

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    2. The Way We Were

      Composer: Marvin Hamlisch

      Performer: Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    3. Deed I Do

      Composer: Fred Rose

      Performer: Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    4. Please Send Me Someone to Love

      Composer: Percy Mayfield

      Performer: Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    5. Fine and Mellow

      Composer: Billie Holiday

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    6. Lady, be Good!: Oh, Lady Be Good!

      Composer: George Gershwin

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    7. Somewhere in My Lifetime

      Composer: Jesus Alvarez

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    8. My Fair Lady: I Could Have Danced All Night

      Composer: Frederick Loewe

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    9. What a Wonderful World

      Composer: George David Weiss, Bob Thiele

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    10. Ma, He's Makin' Eyes at Me

      Composer: Con Conrad

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    11. Don't Go to Strangers

      Composer: Arthur Kent, David Mann

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White

    12. I'll Be Seeing You

      Composer: Gene De Paul

      Performer: Etta Jones, Houston Person, Stan Hope, George Kaye, Chip White


Etta Jones could do it all. You could hear it in every note she sang. You heard it best on up-tempo tunes when she would swing with a joyful abandon and an almost godlike authority. But even when she sang the most tragic and heart wrenching of ballads Jones conveyed a resilient inner core. Those traits are here in abundance on this live concert recording of Etta and her long-time partner Houston Person at the 2000 Tri-C Jazz Festival. Etta's voice remained remarkably consistent throughout her career and she sounds particularly vibrant here on her featured tracks.