In a Grand Style (1999)

About this title: This posthumously released material -- mostly classic and classy love songs -- puts an exclamation point on the career of a true American music legend, a legitimate grand master in more ways than one. It is not, as the back cover states, a "solo piano album." Charles Brown does, in fact, sing on all the cuts save one, but there's no rhythm section or soloist to help. It's simply Charles Brown, all soulful, with light-colored blues, gently swinging but by himself. There are classics like "Black Night," "Stumbled and Fell in Love," the curious "One Never Knows, Does One?" and Little Walter's ... read more

Tracks:

1. One Never Knows, Does One? [Gordon/Revel]
2. Stand by You [Brown]
3. Black Night [Brown/Robinson]
4. You Gave Me Everything But Love [Arlen/Koehler]
5. Give Me a Woman [Jacobs]
6. Hard Times [Leiber/Stoller]
7. Charles' Chopin Liszt [Brown]
8. Sorry Baby [McCoy]
9. Stumbled and Fell in Love [Brown/Scott]
10. Wouldn't It Be Grand [Brown/Lewis]

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