With You In Mind - Marian McPartland

 

Black Is The Color

With You In Mind

Marian McPartland

Cover Photo: Ed Cornachio

Recorded in New York City in January and February 1957

Capitol Records T895

Personnel:

Piano: Marian McPartland

Strings: Max Cahn, George Ricci, Arnold Eidur & Isadore Zir

Harp: Margaret Ross

Drums: Bill Britto

Bass: James Johnson & James Campbell (alternating)

From the back cover: To everyone who has been lucky enough to hear Marian McPartland and her trio at New York's Hickory House or at other leading nightclubs, and to the many more who have heard her in three previous Capitol recordings – here is a fresh new album of her unique stylings. Assisting Marian in creating these striking vignettes is her usual ensemble of drums and bass; the added individual coloration in this album is provided by harp and string quartet.

An uninitiated listener might at first mistake Marian's euphonious band of jazz for a rather superior form of background music – but not for long. To catch a bar or two of her superlative piano phrasings is to listen, and to keep on listening, to what is obviously once-in-a-blue-moon music.

From Billboard - October 28, 1957: This package takes Miss McPartland further than ever from the jazz scene as her piano is accompanied by four strings and a harp in addition to the regular rhythm backing. Songs are all of the soft, moody school – "Little Girl Blue," "Black Is the Color," "Love Walked In," etc. – a selection which fits a nice mood groove even tho it doesn't allow for the sharp piano vitality present in earlier sets. As a mood set, however, this can do a moderate share of business.

Love Walked In

I Remember You

Autumn Nocture

Fur Elise

Black Is The Color

This Is New

Little Girl Blue

With You In Mind

After All

A Ship Without A Sail

Greensleeves