Everybody's Boppin

Annie Ross, Jon Hendricks, Lambert Hendricks & Ross, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000026R5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,720 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #78 in Music > Jazz > Vocal Jazz > Vocalese

Customer Reviews

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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary vocals and music. What a discovery!, April 16, 2001

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C. Heinrich "wsidechris" (Oyster Bay, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Everybody's Boppin (Audio CD)

This album was one of those totally unexpected mind-blowing experiences I've had while listening to something for the first time that I knew nothing about. These singers are AMAZING!! They are a (glorious) product of their time and place--this could NEVER be done today. And that's very sad!!

This is a must-have recording for jazz vocal buffs. I can't imagine you being without it. Once you hear it, you'll know why I say that.

Aside from the tremendous singing/scatting, the instrumentation on here is clean, lively and it's all just right to showcase the marvelous voices.

You gotta hear this! This remains one of the greatest surprises I've ever had.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars LHR, Just too tough., July 1, 2000

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Arnie Magraner (San Bernardino,Ca.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everybody's Boppin (Audio CD)

If you were around during their heyday,and loved them as I did(I cut my jazz teeth on LHR}, You'll just love this album of songs. Anne's soulfull,haunting rendition of "Blue" is still one of my favorite songs,even after all these years. The name of CD "Everybody's Boppin' by Lambert Hendricks and Ross(LHR) When LHR does "Come On Home",with it's mid-tempo jazzy blues,you can feel a hurting soul trying not to blow his cool. Then there's "Cloudburst". Unbelievable! That fast tempo beat and the even faster toungue twisting lyrics.If you've never heard it,you must. Another one of my favorites is "Centerpiece" If there was ever a bop love song,this is it. In fact all the cuts are too tough. Check it out.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great vocal jazz from the 50s and 60s, August 15, 2005

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Dolly Spalding "Poet, artist and jazz and mu... (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Everybody's Boppin (Audio CD)

When I was a young art student in Boston in the late 50s, I discovered Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and absolutely loved them. I even got to see them perform live, which was astonishing and wonderful. But they kind of disappeared from my radar as I lived through my marriage to a classical guitarist, motherhood and the passage of decades immersed in what constituted my daily existence and real-time biography. However, recently my memory conjured them up again as I was talking to a young friend, a singer, who was telling me about plans for an a cappella singing group consisting of himself, another man and a woman. Suddenly, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross flashed into my mind, so I investigated, via the Internet, the possibility of finding any or all CDs of theirs that might be out there. I was so pleased to discover "Everybody's Boppin'" which includes some of the group's biggest hits and most popular numbers. When I received the CD and played it for my friend, he instantly fell in love with the sound, too. So now he's all inspired, and I'm listening to their amazingly convoluted, devilishly intricate harmonies and completely inventive singing on a daily basis. For anyone who loves vocal jazz or who has nostalgia for those glory days of the jazz-obsessed 1950s, rediscover this phenomenon. Their like will probably never again be among us (unless in the song stylings of my friend and his singing partners).