Julie London – About The Blues (1957)

Side 1:
01) Basin Street Blues
02) I Got A Right To Sing The Blues
03) A Nightingale Can Sing The Blues
04) Get Set For The Blues
05) An Invitation To The Blues
06) Bye Bye Blues

Side 2:
01) Meaning Of The Blues
02) About The Blues
03) Sunday Blues
04) The Blues Is All I Ever Had
05) Blues In The Night
06) Bouquet Of Blues

Julie London - Vocals
Russell Garcia - Arranger, Conductor

Julie London wasn't really a jazz singer, but she possessed a definite jazz feeling and many of her finest albums (such as Julie Is Her Name and Julie...At Home) feature small-group jazz backings. About the Blues was aimed at the 1950s pop market, but it may just be her best orchestral session. Since downbeat torch songs were London's specialty, the album features an excellent selection of nocturnal but classy blues songs that play to her subtle strengths instead of against them. Likewise, Russ Garcia's clever arrangements bleed jazz touches and short solos over the solitary strings and big-band charts. Like June Christy, London usually included a couple of new songs in with a selection of standards, and her husband, Bobby Troup, wrote two excellent numbers for the album. One of them, the emotionally devastating "Meaning of the Blues," is the album's highlight, and was turned into a jazz standard after Miles Davis recorded it the same year for Miles Ahead. ---Nick Dedina, Rovi

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