Irene Reid, The Uptown Lowdown - 39m 26s

Tracks & Durations

1. I'm Walkin'	4:41
2. Candy	5:47
3. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean	4:42
4. I Believe I Can Fly	5:06
5. I'll Take You Back	5:20
6. If I Never Get to Heaven	4:02
7. Me and Mr. Jones	5:15
8. Long John Blues	4:28

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Review

Irene Reid is a survivor, a voice from a golden age of jazz and blues singers. In the 1960s, she toured with Count Basie and recorded for Verve, then disappeared for decades, only to sound better than ever on a trio of CDs with organist Charles Earland before his death in late 1999. Like its predecessors, The Uptown Lowdown is relaxed, soulful, elemental music--roots with elegance. Reid sings in a style at the early intersection of jazz and R&B, with a sweet and gritty voice that recalls Dinah Washington and Ruth Brown. She covers some of their songs here, but she gives them her own spin, swinging mightily with a phrasing as natural as speech. She draws with ease on wellsprings of feeling, from a secure plaintiveness to bawdy humor, adding her own depths to "Me and Mr. Jones" and infusing a gospel spirit into the contemporary R&B of Robert Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly." Earland builds potent grooves with drummer Greg Rockingham and blends his organ keyboards with two tenors and trumpet, creating a lush carpet of sound for Reid's rich voice. Eric Alexander contributes some booting tenor solos, and guitarist Bill Boris adds cutting, soulful blues. --Stuart Broomer Featuring: Charles Earland, Eric Alexander, Mike Karn, James Rotondi, Bill Boris and Greg Rockingham.

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