Comes love : lost session 1960

"Den amerikanske jazzsangerinde Sheila Jordan er i dag noget af en legende. Hun er 92 år, er nok for mange gået i glemmebogen, men i sidste halvdel af forrige århundrede var hun ikke desto mindre en af de helt store. Hun optrådte med Charlie Parker og Dizzy Gillespie som helt ung og slog i 1950'erne og '60'erne sit navn helt fast. I 1963 pladedebuterede hun i eget navn (...), men med det nye album, Comes Love, præsenteres vi altså for en studieindspilning dateret et par år forud for debuten ... Nu kan vi (...) høre den helt unge Sheila Jordan - en stjerne in spe ... Besætningen (...) består muligvis (...) af John Knapp på klaver (han spillede også med Billie Holiday og Sarah Vaughan), Ziggy Willman på trommer og Steve Swallow og/eller Gene Pearlman på kontrabas ... Og Sheila Jordan - hun synger virtuost og overbevisende smukt. Udtrykket som helhed - hendes og konstellationens - er sindssygt moderne, raffineret og tight".

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"Sheila Jordan falls into that unique category of vocalists whose voice, once heard, is unlikely to be mistaken for anyone else. Now at ninety-two, she continues to perform regularly, if not frequently ... Jordan was thirty-one at the time of this recording but, perhaps understandably, she has no recollection of this session nor the names of the musicians supporting her ... At what would have to be considered the stepping off point in her recording career, Sheila Jordan had a fresh and unambiguous approach to American Songbook standards ... Regardless of the material, Jordan understood it was important to emphasize the melodic development of the song and, by so doing, it would be transformed as distinctive to her ".

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"Her voice is a little higher than the one audiences came to know later in her career, but Jordan already had something personal and special to contribute to these standards, making the 61-year-old Comes Love an important discovery".