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Lee Wiley - Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere | Retrospective RTR4147

Lee Wiley - Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere

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Label: Retrospective

Cat No: RTR4147

Barcode: 0710357414725

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 4th May 2009

Contents

Artists

Lee Wiley

Artists

Lee Wiley

About

Tracklisting:

Rise ‘N’ Shine
Time On My Hands
Got The South In My Soul
Easy Come, Easy Go
Sweet And Lowdown
How Long Has This Been Going On?
Someone To Watch Over Me
You Took Advantage Of Me
A Ship Without A Sail
Let's Fly Away
Looking At You
Down To Steamboat Tennessee
Down With Love
Stormy Weather
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
It’s Only A Paper Moon
Body And Soul
A Woman’s Intuition
Sugar
Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
A Ghost Of A Chance
Oh, Look At Me Now
I’ve Got A Crush On You
Manhattan
Glad To Be Unhappy

Jazz buffs still discourse and dissent over what precisely qualifies a “jazz singer”. However, for sensuality, rhythmic impulse and musicality, Lee Wiley may now appear an easy counterpart of the best black vocalists of her generation; albeit in fairness both her genesis and evolution within that classification were both sketchy and protracted. Her full recognition was delayed partly by her commercial under-recording, partly by the self-generated and stage-managed mystique with which she surrounded herself, and partly by her early retirement. At first a novelty vocalist, a “canary” crooner with a “breathy, little-girl sound”, Wiley later did sterling if scarce recording work with dance-bands led by The Dorseys, Glen Gray, Johnny Green, Leo Reisman and Victor Young, before teaming with Bing Crosby on the radio. However, like Mildred Bailey and Connee Boswell, her style soon assumed the more distinct jazz connotations of Ethel Waters and, while she was perhaps never an improviser in the strictest sense, her distinctively warm gossamer tone, clear diction and sensitive feeling for lyrics had by the late 1930s already earned her a special niche in the jazz fraternity.

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