Aretha Franklin Yeah!!! In Person With Her Quartet

Limited Edition 180g Audiophile Vinyl!
Although Aretha Franklin is known for her larger than life soulful R&B vocals, this album sees her at her jazziest. If she had wanted to concentrate on this one area of her talent, she would still be ruling it.
This 'live nightclub performance' with a jazz trio turned out to be fake on Aretha Franklin's Columbia compilations, but is nonetheless a great LP, perhaps even Aretha's best Columbia LP. John Hammond discovered her and just wanted great music, but the label couldn't decide whether to put her into the R&B category as an interpreter of popular pieces from stage shows, jazz singers or just didn't realize that she was all that at the same time and deserved to form her own division. Here you can hear the most jazzy Aretha ever – if she had wanted to limit herself to this one area of her talent spectrum, she would still be the greatest in it today. For "Without The One You Love" alone, the record is worth buying.
"One of the great myths in music is that Aretha didn't blossom until she signed with Atlantic. It may be true commerciallky, but her ten LPs or so with Columbia are still... well... this is Aretha for goodness' sake. This set - recorded live at New York's Columbia Studios, as opposed to at a gig in a club - shows her taking control of at least three genres, from blues to jazz to standards, with emphasis on the jazz, and she simply soars past Dinah, Sarah and Billie on material like 'Misty' and 'Trouble In Mind'. Don't let the pro-Atlantic mythology overshadow this superb-sounding gem from 1965, which also features Kenny Burrell on guitar as a bonus." - Ken Kessler, Hi-FiNews, May 2017, Sound Quality 90%

Features:

• Limited Edition
• 180g Vinyl
• Remastered Audiophile 

Musicians:

• Aretha Franklin, vocals, piano
• Kenny Burrell, guitar
• Teddy Harris, piano
• James "Beans" Richardson, bass
• Hindel Butts, drum

Selections:

Side A
1. This Could Be The Start Of Something
2. Once In A Lifetime
3. Misty
4. More (from "Mondo Cane")
5. There Is No Greater Love
6. Muddy Water
Side B
1. If I Had A Hammer (Aretha Franklin, piano)
2. Impossible
3. Today I Love Ev'rybody
4. Without The One You Love (Aretha Franklin, piano)
5. Trouble In Mind
6. Love For Sale

Recorded live in New York, February 10, 1965.