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Andy and the Bey Sisters - 'Round Midnight

Andy and the Bey Sisters - 'Round Midnight

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Artist: Andy and the Bey Sisters | Label: Prestige | Format: LP  |  Genre: Jazz | Vinyl Condition: Mint | Cover Condition: Sealed


Andy and the Bey Sisters
'Round Midnight
Prestige 7411 - re-issue LP 

Criminally unsung pianist and singer Andy Bey had the most visible career after he and his sisters Salome and Geraldine Bey, broke up their performing trio after an 11-year run in 1967, but this family singing ensemble was far more than just the act that launched Andy, and he wasn't really the focus of the group. All three siblings were highlighted equally in the trio, and their harmonies together were the ethereal kind that can only happen in a family where all involved have grown up hearing each other's voices and phrasing every single day. The Bey trio recorded very little together, unfortunately, just a single album for RCA in 1961 and two albums for Prestige, Now! Here!, released in 1964, and this one, 'Round Midnight, from 1965. Part gospel, part muted R&B, part stylized blues, the Bey trio was also very much a jazz outfit, due in no small part to Andy's under appreciated piano playing and the presence of bop veterans like Milt Hinton on bass, Osie Johnson on drums, and Kenny Burrell (who appears on about half of the tracks here) on guitar. In essence, the Bey trio sounded like a thinned-out and more jazzy, gauzy version of The Staple Singers. Highlights from this set are a wonderfully balanced version of Ray Charles' "Hallelujah, I Love Her So," a stirring take on Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child," the ever expanding and ascending "Feeling Good," and a fine rendition of the title track, Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight," which has never been the easiest song in the world to sing effectively, but the trio nails it here in what might have been deemed a definitive version if it had actually been heard by more than a handful of people. - All Music 

     Contains the tracks; 
Love Medley (Love is Just Around the Corner / I Love You / Love You Madly
God Bless the Child 
Sqeeze Me 
Tammy 
Hallelujah, I Love Her So 
Everybody Loves My Baby 
'Round Midnight
Soliitude 
Feeling Good 
Everytime We Say Goodbye 

NEW SEALED re-issue LP (no UPC) 

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