Don't Let It End (1992)

About this title: This CD is most significant for being the first recording in many years of jazz harpist Adele Girard. Featured in a quintet with leader/clarinetist Bobby Gordon, pianist Ray Sherman, bassist Morty Corb and drummer Gene Estes, Girard is on 12 of the 15 songs (the three other tunes are quartet features), and even though the tempos tend to be relaxed, she is still heard swinging hard. The setting is reminiscent of Girard's work with her late husband, clarinetist Joe Marsala, and the harpist sounds wonderful on such numbers as "Someday Sweetheart," "Exactly Like You," "Muskrat Ramble," "As Long ... read more

Tracks:

1. Someday, Sweetheart [Spikes/Spikes]
2. Basin Street Blues [Williams]
3. Exactly Like You [Fields/McHugh]
4. Squeeze Me [Waller/Williams]
5. Frankie and Johnny [Traditional]
6. Muskrat Ramble [Gilbert/Ory]
7. Do You Ever Think of Me? [Burtnett/Cooper/Ker]
8. Singin' the Blues (Till My Daddy Comes Home) [Conrad/Lewis/Robins]
9. Love Nest [Harbach/Hirsch]
10. If You Were Mine [Mercer/Malneck]
11. Limehouse Blues [Braham/Furber]
12. As Long as I Live [Arlen/Koehler]
13. (Back Home Again In) Indiana [Hanley/MacDonald]
14. Emaline [Perkins/Parish]
15. Don't Let It End [Marsala]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.