Helen Merrill - The Nearness of You / SHM-CD

Recorded between December, 1957 & February, 1958.

The Bill Evans biographer Peter Pettinger wrote of the session featuring the pianist, "Merrill, enticingly warm, molded the intensity of her tone like a horn, coloring her line with a tastefully controlled vibrato." He also quotes Merrill herself as saying, "Bill was a wonderful accompanist. But is that any wonder since he was so very sensitive and endlessly musical?"

    "Bye Bye Blackbird" (Mort Dixon, Al Henderson) – 2:57
    "When the Sun Comes Out" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 4:47
    "I Remember You" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger) – 2:11
    "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) – 3:19
    "Dearly Beloved" (Jerome Kern, Mercer) – 2:07
    "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 3:28
    "All of You" (Cole Porter) – 3:33
    "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:39
    "Let Me Love You" (Harlan Howard) – 2:48
    "The Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 4:06
    "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Arlen, Mercer) – 2:21
    "Just Imagine" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Henderson) – 3:21