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Torrie Zito - arranger, conductor, Fender Rhodes; Jesse Levy - cello; Frank Zuback - conductor; George Mraz - double bass; Jeff Mironov - guitar; Gloria Agostini - harp; Dennis Anderson - English horn, oboe; Steve Kroon - percussion; Roland Hanna - piano; Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone; References
Helen Merrill (born Jelena Ana Milcetic; July 21, 1929) is an American jazz vocalist. Her first album, the eponymous 1954 recording Helen Merrill (with Clifford Brown on EmArcy), was an immediate success and associated her with the first generation of bebop jazz musicians.
There has never been a jazz vocal record quite like Jelena Ana Milcetic a.k.a. Helen Merrill. It is obvious from the very first track as the Lado Folk Dance and Music Ensemble of Croatia intone a movement from the liturgical cantata "Telo Kristusevo" against the backdrop of Terry Clarke's thundering drums.
Vocalists CD LP. An extremely ambitious work by Helen Merrill – an album of tracks recorded to unlock her Croatian heritage, a factor that was always suppressed in her music, but which blossoms here under expansive arrangements that link both jazz and folkloric traditions!
26 mag 2022 · 26 May 2022. 2021. Jelena Ana Milcetic – aka Helen Merrill – born in New York in 1930 to Croatian immigrant parents, was to have a long and distinguished career as a jazz (sometimes “near-jazz”) singer.
About. Helen Merrill was born on July 21, 1929, in New York City. She is a first generation American, her parents immigrated from what is now known as Croatia. She began singing as a teenager in the late 1940s. In 1951, she was a vocalist with the Earl Hines band. She recorded two songs on the Roost label in 1953, ‘My Funny Valentine’ and ...
