MP3 CBR 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks) | Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Blues | 01:17:04 | 1CD | 181 / 235 MbTracklist:01. Be-Baba-Leba02. Voo-It03. Central Avenue Boogie04. He Don’t Love Me Anymore05. Pleasing Man Blues06. It’s Better to Give Than to Receive07. Jet Propelled Papa08. They Raided the Joint09. Mad About You10. Flippity Flop Flop11. Jumpin’ on Sugar Hill12. Today I Sing the Blues13. Married Man Blues14. Don’t Fall in Love with Me15. I’ve Got the Strangest Feeling16. Free17. Million Dollar Secret18. Airplane Blues19. Helen’s Advice20. The Laziest Gal in Town21. Hey, Hey Baby22. All Night Long23. Loud Talkin’ Woman24. They Raided the Joint (Alternative Version)25. Woojamacooja26. All I Ask Is Your Love27. Real Fine Daddy28. I’ll Surrender Anytime“I’ve been called a blues singer, a jazz singer, and a ballad singer – well, I’m all three, which means I’m just a singer”.

That is a quote that Helen Humes was fond of using throughout her career.

She was, like many singers of her generation, Caucasian or African American, proud of her versatility and proud of her resistance to any kind of musical genre pigeon holing.

Having said that, this collection of 28 of her recordings does indeed put her firmly into the blues genre, albeit blues with a definite Jazz bias.

Playing with her across these various recording dates are, Conte Candoli, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Chico Hamilton, Chuck Norris, Ernie Freeman, Jackie Kelso, Camille Howard, Roy Milton, Buck Clayton, Teddy Wilson, Maxwell Davis, Lester Young, Bill Doggett and even more.

How cool is that list.

This CD contains several of her jukebox hit records like “Be-Baba-Leba”, “Million Dollar Secret”.