Lena Horne - Lonely And Alive - Speakers Corner LP { Vinyl LP }

Lena's musical home was in the American Songbook, which she approached with a natural and entertaining manner. A good example of this is the first number here - the Cole Porter classic "I Concentrate On You", which swings along to the perfectly recorded big-band sound of the Marty Paich Orchestra. A surprise element is the extensive palette of vocal sound-coloring with which the diva enhances her voice to achieve the drama of a Shirley Bassey or the dusky depths of a Dinah Washington. Each and every number on this Grammy-worthy album has been thought out in great detail and guarantees sophisticated entertainment, and a hint of West Coast Jazz is perceptible when Jack Sheldon treats us to the sound of his warm and dark trumpet solos.

• 1 I Concentrate on You
• 2 I Get the Blues When It Rains
• 3 I've Grown Accustomed to His Face
• 4 I Got Rhythm
• 5 I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)
• 6 I Want to Be Happy
• 7 I Surrender, Dear
• 8 I Found a New Baby
• 9 I Understand
• 10 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
• 11 I Ain't Got Nobody (And Nobody Cares for Me)
• 12 I Only Have Eyes for You