Beautiful Love (1995)

About this title: Jay Clayton has been a leader in applying avant-garde, creative modern techniques to the art of jazz vocal. She has been successful in this commendable objective ever since her first album as a solist in 1980, where a 25-year-old Jane Ira Bloom was a major partner. Although working with a play list of classic standards, except for Wayne Shorter's jazz standard "Footprints," Clayton has by no means set aside her modern jazz vocal leanings. Joined by Fred Hersch a pianist with like perspectives, they work in tandem to present this familiar music in an offbeat non-familiar way. This is not to ... read more

Tracks:

1. Beautiful Love [Gillespie/King/VanA]
2. You Don't Know What Love Is [DePaul/Raye]
3. My Heart Stood Still [Hart/Rodgers]
4. So in Love [Porter]
5. Day by Day [Cahn/Stordahl/Westo]
6. Wild Is the Wind [Tiomkin/Washington]
7. Ev'rything I Love [Porter]
8. Footprints [Shorter]
9. Blame It on My Youth [Heyman/Levant]
10. I Love You [Porter]

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