Check out “You Are Too Beautiful” from what may be my favorite recording of all time. Called “the greatest album ever made” by Esquire Mag in 1990. Only recording Coltrane ever made with a vocalist. Supreme, supreme, supreme. Makes me weep. Literally.
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Check out the whole recording here. Please. You will be so happy.
I have to also put in a big plug for their rendition of “Lush Life” – so melancholy and beautiful, and much more compelling than Nat King Cole’s glossier, over-layered version. Hartman didn’t get the recognition he deserved – I wonder if it’s because Cole cast such a big shadow over other male black jazz vocalists in the Sixties.
Oh, definitely. I agree that Hartman didn’t get the recognition he deserved and that’s a tragedy. His is my very favorite voice in jazz. You never know how these things happen, speaking as one who used to work in the music biz.
And I’ll put in a plug for “My One and Only Love,” the most romantic song of all time and their rendition moves me to tears almost every time I hear it.