Esther Phillips
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Topic: Esther Phillips
Posted By: Matt
Subject: Esther Phillips
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 5:29pm
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Hi, a suggestion for Esther or Little Esther as she was known in the early 50's. Worked with the Johnny Otis orchestra in the early fifties. Drugs stuffed her up and she disappeared for years and in 1962 Kenny Rogers (yeah the country one) revived her career which lead her to Atlantic records after a short hiatus at Lenox. "Release Me " was the song that was the first hit in her careers 2nd stage. The Jazz mainly lays with this work period for her. The first two Atlantic albums "Esther" and "I Love Him" are good pointers. The song "Try Me" has King Curtis with her. Oliver Nelson was one of the producers for "Esther". The early stuff with Johnny Otis was all the Blues songs jazzed up. "Double Crossing Blues", "Mistrusting Blues",Cupid Blues:, "Misery" etc. Early seventies she went full on R&B with album after album on Kudu mainly. "From A Whisper To A Scream" with "Home Is Where The Hatred Is" ( Gil Scot Heron comp.) is the biggie. Yeah disco had started but she did keep the Soul component within. ------------- Matt |
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Posted By: Rokukai
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 9:18pm
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great call
she had an awesome voice |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2012 at 11:03pm
| Thanks, we're working on it. |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 5:09am
| Her albums are being added, let me know if anything is missing, or if any tags are wrong. One of her country albums was more pop, the other was blues, especially in her singing. |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 7:15am
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Hey Matt, was it Esther that you showed me doing a Gil Scott-Heron cover a while back? Or did I imagine it, was it someone else by chance? ------------- We are men of action. Lies do not become us. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/dreadpirateroberts%28member%29.aspx?reviews=all/" rel="nofollow - Reviews... |
Posted By: js
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 7:41am
| Esther does a great cover of "Home is where the Hatred is", a tale of narcotic use. |
Posted By: dreadpirateroberts
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 7:44am
Excellent, thanks John - I thought it was her. Matt put a video up somewhere, I'll find it now I reckon - I remember it being great. Love that album of his, wish I could find a reasonably-priced copy of his first - the spoken one. I haven't checked for a while but ------------- We are men of action. Lies do not become us. http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/dreadpirateroberts%28member%29.aspx?reviews=all/" rel="nofollow - Reviews... |
js wrote:Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 12:31pm
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Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 09 Jul 2012 at 2:55pm
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Awesome ------------- Matt |
