James Stettler | Los Angeles, California United States | 12/23/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"The Baldwin Street Music label and Ted Takashi Ono have done it again. This is a collection of Maxine Sullivan's commercial recordings and air checks from the 1950s. Her work from this decade has never been collected in one place before and you have some superior jazz singing here from the "Swinging Miss Loch Lomond". This includes the finest version of "Accentuate The Postive" that this Sullivan fan has ever heard. You have a number of tunes that were not commercially recorded and it is a thrill to hear Maxine sing songs that you were not aware that she had ever sung. In other words; you get the contents of the album "Maxine Sullvian 1956" as well as air checks and rare singles. This is a must have for fans of Miss Maxine Sullivan and for fans of great jazz vocalists. By the way, Maxine's other 1950s album is already on CD. This one is called "Maxine Sullivan and her Jazz-All Stars-A Tribute to Andy Razaf"."