A Gasser! [Extra tracks, Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered]

Annie Ross, Zoot Sims, Annie Ross Zoot Sims | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B000075AWQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,120,756 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Everything I' Ve Got

2. Invitation To The Blues

3. I Didn't Know About

4. I Don't Want To Cry Antmore

5. Lucky Day

6. I Was Doin' Alright

7. You Took Avantage Of Me

8. You're Nearer

9. (I'm Just A ) Lucky So And So

10. Nobody Baby

11. You're Driving Me Crazy

12. Invitation To The Blues (Instrumental)

13. Bones For Zoot

14. Funky Old Blues

15. Brushes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lost classic, July 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: A Gasser! (Audio CD)

This album begs to be heard and released domestically. An inspired offering by one of the great underrated ladies of jazz with equally stellar performances by Zoot Sims and Russ Freedman. A true gem.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vocalese rendered slow, January 3, 2004

By 

groucho "groucho_nc" (Chapel Hill, NC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Singer Swinger Gasser (Audio CD)

This is actually a duet album with saxophonist Zoot Sims. Ross eschewed vibrato like Anita O'Day and latter-day Shirley Horn and its great hearing her wring something from such chestnuts as "You're Nearer". This is quite different from the rapid-fire vocalese she did with Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks in the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross albums, but just as essential.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars not her usual music, January 8, 2004

By 

Steven C. Berry "scberry" (Edmonds WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singer Swinger Gasser (Audio CD)

I love this album. Try it out if and when it is back in print. Annie Ross has the most interesting voice -- not a perfect voice, but she knew how to use it. There's no scat and her song choices are stellar. This disc swings. My favorites include "You're Nearer" and "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore". Her band was top-notch. Zoot Simms played his tenor sax as if he was singing, too. The band swung and Annie's timing was impeccable. She's wicked-funny singing "Everything I've Got."