Hearts and Minds (album)

Hearts and Minds is the sixteenth album by jazz singer Susannah McCorkle. It peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart.

Hearts and Minds
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 8, 2000 (2000-08-08)
RecordedMarch 28–30, 2000
StudioSound on Sound, New York City
GenreVocal jazz, traditional pop
Length66:37
LabelConcord Jazz
Susannah McCorkle chronology
From Broken Hearts to Blue Skies
(1999)
Hearts and Minds
(2000)
Most Requested Songs
(2001)

This was Susannah McCorkle's last set of recordings. She died by suicide in May 2001.

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic      [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings    [2]

Music critic Paula Edelstein of Allmusic praised the album and wrote McCorkle "has the remarkable capability to bring rarely heard songs back to life through updated interpretations and 21st century appeal."[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings says that the album is close to being McCorkle's masterpiece.[2]

Tracks edit

  1. "I Can Dream, Can't I?" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal)
  2. "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
  3. "Love, Look Away" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
  4. "My Attorney Bernie" (Dave Frishberg)
  5. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis)
  6. "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen)
  7. "Haunted Heart" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz)
  8. "What Did I Forget?" (Frishberg)
  9. "Down" (Simon Wallace, Fran Landesman)
  10. "The Computer Age (In Motion)" (Thelmo Porto)
  11. "Evolution" (Ivan Lins, Brock Patrick Walsh)
  12. "Feet Do Your Stuff" (Simon Wallace, Fran Landesman)
  13. "Do You Miss New York?" (Frishberg)
  14. "Scars" (Wallace, Landesman)
  15. "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" (Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler)

Personnel edit

  • Susannah McCorkle – vocals
  • Allen Farnham – piano, arranger, musical director
  • Dick Oatts – saxophone (1, 2, 4, 6–10, 12, 13, 15)
  • Paul Meyers – electric & acoustic guitars (tracks 1, 2, 4–13, 15)
  • Steve Gilmore – double bass (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15)
  • Dennis Irwin – double bass (tracks 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11)
  • Tim Horner – drums (tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15)
  • Vanderlei Pereira – drums (tracks 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11)
  • Thiago DeMello – percussion (tracks 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11)

References edit

  1. ^ a b Edelstein, Paula. "Hearts and Minds - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 22, 2011.
  2. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 969. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.