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Johnny Hartman
Johnny Hartman was a baritone singer from Chicago who worked with several notable jazz musicians in the 1940s and 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie and Stan...
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Johnny Hartman was a baritone singer from Chicago who worked with several notable jazz musicians in the 1940s and 1950s, including Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton. His voice had a particular warmth that stood out even as bebop became more fashionable. In 1956, he recorded the album 'Dedicated to You' with arranger Quincy Jones, which featured the title track that became closely associated with him.
He recorded with John Coltrane in 1963, an album that's still mentioned when people talk about his work. Other records like 'The Voice That Is!' from 1964 and 'I Just Dropped by to Say Hello' from 1973 show him interpreting standards with that same intimate delivery. Songs like 'They Say It's Wonderful' and 'For All We Know' give a good sense of his approach, unhurried, with attention to the lyric.
Hartman died in 1983. His singing, especially on ballads like 'You Are Too Beautiful,' has kept a quiet but steady presence in jazz listening since then.
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