Track Listing 1. Laura 2. Blue Monk 3. Church on Russell Street 4. Where Flamingos Fly 5. Season in the Sun 6. Lover Man 7. Evil Blues 8. Someimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 9. When Sunny Gets Blue 10. Love Isn't Everything 11. Vanguard - (previously unreleased) 12. Left Alone - (previously unreleased) 13. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands - (previously unreleased) 14. Straight Ahead - (previously unreleased)
Personnel: Jeanne Lee (vocals); Ran Blake (piano); George Duvivier (bass).
Producer: George Avakian.
Recorded at RCA Studio B, New York between November 15 and December 7, 1961. Includes liner notes by Michael Ullman.
THE LEGENDARY DUETS is the 1987 Bluebird CD reissue of 1962's THE NEWEST SOUND AROUND, which marked the debut of both avant-garde jazz singer Jeanne Lee and "third stream" pianist Ran Blake. It's a fascinating document--moody, dissonant, bluesy, and an altogether more musical affair than a related avant-garde entity such as Patty Waters's self-titled ESP debut. Of special interest are the slow, sure "Blue Monk" (with Abbey Lincoln lyrics) and a rare cover of the exotic novelty "Where Flamingos Fly," which bears comparison with the Helen Merrill/Gil Evans version on DREAM OF YOU.
