Arthur Prysock - Jazz 'Round Midnight: Arthur Prysock

Title: Jazz 'Round Midnight: Arthur Prysock Artist: Arthur Prysock Release Date: 1995 Re-Released On: 2/28/1995 Label: Polygram Duration: 48:48 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 731452703323 Genre: Vocal Music Styles: Standards, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz Moods: Freewheeling, Gentle, Laid-Back/Mellow, Romantic Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. It's Too Late (Baby, Too Late)
2. Teardrops in the Rain
3. When You Walked in the Room
4. How Did She Look?
5. Every Time Is the First Time
6. Little Girl Blue
7. You Played the Game Unfair
8. You'd Better Change Your Ways
9. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
10. Ebb Tide
11. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
12. Stop Crying, Little Girl
13. When I Fall in Love
14. I'll Be Around
15. Who (Will Take My Place) ?
16. Only for You

Year Type Label Catalog # 1995 CD Polygram 527033

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This is a fine collection of orchestrated ballads by the underrated pop-jazz baritone singer Arthur Prysock. After an extended stint with jump-blues bandleader Buddy Johnson in the '40s, Prysock cut solo sides in the '50s and '60s for Decca, Mercury, King, Verve, and various small labels. The songs on Jazz 'Round Midnight all come from Verve recordings cut throughout the '60s and feature Prysock's sensual pipes framed by tasteful strings and blues-tinged combo accompaniment (alongside Ram Ramirez's fine organ work, brother Red Prysock contributes a handful of smoky tenor solos akin to those heard on his own solo R&B instrumentals from the '50s). Highlights include excellent renditions of "Little Girl Blue," "I'll Be Around," and "(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance," in addition to rarely recorded gems such as "How Did She Look" and "Only for You." For jazz vocal fans who frown upon the lush, more pop oriented end of the genre, this title is not for you. If you like the kind of stylized "bedroom soul" and jazz vocals Billy Eckstine, Johnny Hartman, and even Barry White, to some extent, excelled at, then this Prysock collection is a great buy. ~ Stephen Cook, All Music Guide

Name Credits Al Lucas Bass Aric Lach Morrison Production Coordination Art Davis Bass Arthur Prysock Vocals Ben Young Compilation Research, Research Chuck Stewart Photography Don Sebesky Conductor Ed Shaughnessy Drums George Duvivier Bass Hy Weiss Producer Michael Lang Compilation Producer, Supervisor Mort Garson Conductor, Arranger Mundell Lowe Guitar Nichell Delvaille Cover Photo, Design Nick Vaccaro Photography Pete Spargo Producer Peter Pullman Notes Editing, Liner Editor Richard Seidel Executive Producer Roger "Ram" Ramirez Organ Scott Townsend Artwork, Layout Concept Sheryl Lutz-Brown Direction, Design, Artwork Stan Free Director, Piano Steve Cushing Selection, Sequencing, Liner Notes Suha Gur Mastering Wally Richardson Guitar Zane Zacharoff Woodwind, Flute