Guitarist Mary Osborne led relatively few sessions during her career, just a few titles in the mid-to-late '40s, a Warwick LP in 1959 and a Stash album that had titles from 1959 and 1981. This Stash CD reissues the full Warwick set plus the Stash songs from 1981 (although not the ones from 1959). The earlier selections feature Osborne's bop-oriented style with a quintet also including rhythm guitarist Danny Barker, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Jo Jones. The newer pieces are by a trio with bassist Steve Laspina and drummer Charlie Persip. Despite the 22 years that passed between the sessions, Osborne's appealing and swinging style was completely unchanged and she is in consistently fine form on these mostly-veteran standards. Recommended.
Scott YanowSource : https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-memorial-mw0000614773#review
Mary Osborne
A Memorial
Tracks
1 Soft Winds (Christian, Goodman) 4:07
2 Emily (Mandel, Mercer) 3:44
3 Samba de Orfeu (Bonfá) 3:37
4 Love You Madly (Ellington) 3:20
5 God Bless the Child (Holiday, Herzog, Jr.) 4:30
6 Just Friends (Klenner, Lewis) 3:30
7 I Found a New Baby (Palmer, Williams) 3:04
8 Sophisticated Lady (Ellington, Mills, Parish) 4:11
9 I'm Beginning to See the Light (Ellington, George, Hodges, James) 2:29
10 Body and Soul (Eyton, Green, Heyman, Sour) 2:50
11 I Surrender, Dear (Barris, Clifford) 2:54
12 These Foolish Things (Link, Marvell, Strachey) 3:08
13 I Love Paris (Porter) 2:45
14 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (Ellington, Mills, Nemo, Redmond) 2:47
15 How High the Moon (Hamilton, Lewis) 2:50
16 When Your Lover Has Gone (Swan) 3:45
17 Mary's Blues (Osborne) 4:35
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Personnel
[# 1-6]
Mary Osborne - g
Steve LaSpina - b
Charlie Persip - dr
Recorded in 1981
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Mary Osborne - g
Danny Barker - g
Tommy Flanagan - p
Tommy Potter - b
Jo Jones - dr
Recorded in 1959