Diana Ross--Blue

[Milestones]

Anyone familiar with this one?  It's basically Diana doing the Great American Songbook, and to these ears she slides and glides right into it--lovely vocals and great arrangements.  This is about as it gets for this music done by someone who is NOT KNOWN for this music.  Yes, she did Billie Holiday material too, though I'm not familiar with that.  I liked The Supremes, who were constantly in the air/on the air when I was a lad.  But I did not know Diana Ross was capable of this record: Blue.

The kicker is that Motown left this record in the can for a good four (4) decades...insane.

 

[JSngry]

https://books.google.com/books?id=2v_xB1eZ_zwC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=Diana+Ross+lennie+tristano&source=bl&ots=R_s0m0bRmi&sig=5CLYJVK8AgVaabR-YUXKBGNaEVI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin3_Hw24DXAhXjh1QKHf5ZCMwQ6AEIVjAN#v=onepage&q=Diana%20Ross%20lennie%20tristano&f=false

[Milestones]

????

[Quasimado]

She's a fine singer - Saw her in "Lady Sings the Blues" - the soundtrack recording was top in Billboard for awhile in '73.

Lennie Tristano thought she was great and wrote to Downbeat saying so. (That's the gist of Jim's French quote).

Never seen that book - no English translation?   Q

 

 

[Larry Kart]

I was at Down Beat when that Tristano letter praising Diana Ross came in. 

[Milestones]

Well, I took one year of French in high school, and it was one of my true low spots as a student. 

 

[JSngry]

Sorry about the French. It was the only Google hit I could find that was not anecdotal.