Esther Phillips - Performance album flac

Performance ‎(LP, Album). SR 3367, KU 18. Japan. Performance ‎(LP, Album, Promo). Performance ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM). Kudu, CTI Records.

Esther Phillips (born Esther Mae Jones; December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984) was an American singer, best known for her R&B vocals. She was a versatile singer and also performed pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music. She was born Esther Mae Jones in Galveston, Texas. Her parents divorced when she was an adolescent, and she divided her time between her father, in Houston, and her mother, in the Watts section of Los Angeles.

Tracklist: 1. I Feel The Same, 2. Performance, 3. Doing Our Thing, 4. Disposable Society, 5. Living Alone (We’re Gonna Make It), 6. Such A Night, 7. Can’t Trust Your Neighbor With Your Baby. 4. Disposable Society. 5. Living Alone (We’re Gonna Make It). 7. More albums from Esther Phillips: Confessin’ The Blues by Esther Phillips. Burnin’ (Live At Freddie Jett’s Pied Piper, .

Originally released in 1974, Performance is the fourth of seven albums that vocalist Esther Phillips recorded for Kudu, an offshoot of Creed Taylor's CTI label. Arranged and conducted by Pee Wee Ellis with assistance from Eugene McDaniels and Taylor, the session assembles a celebrated choice of soul, fusion, and mainstream jazz musicians including, Bob James, Richard Tee, Hubert Laws, Bernard Purdie, Pepper Adams, and Michael Brecker.

Esther Phillips: Performance by Dan Bilawsky, published on November 19, 2011. Her first album on Kudu, From A Whisper To A Scream (1972), contained a l performance of Gil Scott-Heron's "Home Is Where The Hatred Is," which earned Phillips her second of four Grammy nominations and the respect of her peers, but it also signaled the start of her most prolific period of recording. While at Kudu, the singer recorded eight albums, cementing her reputation as a vocalist par excellence and establishing her as the Kudu queen of blues, soul and R&B.

Esther Phillips (December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984) was an American singer. Phillips was known for her R&B vocals, but she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music. Born Esther Mae Jones in Galveston, Texas, when she was an adolescent, her parents divorced, and she was forced to divide her time between her father in Houston and her mother in the Watts area of Los Angeles.

Album · 2011 · 8 Songs. Texas-born Esther Phillips had a gift for interpreting songs and bestowing upon a lyric the sound and temperament of a wounded heart. She suffered addictions and personal setbacks, which fueled that voice, but record companies had trouble marketing her talents. Performance is her unheralded 1974 funky soul-jazz masterpiece, the fourth of seven albums she did for the Kudu label

I Feel the Same, 08:26. Doing Our Thing, 03:36.