{"title":"Etta Jones","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"dont-go-to-strangers","title":"Don't Go To Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Etta Jones (1928-2001) never became a household name, she achieved a certain degree of success as a jazz vocalist. She performed with the Earl Hines sextet from 1949-1952 and during her lifetime received three Grammy nominations, one of them for her 1960 LP Don't Go to Strangers, featuring Frank Wess and Roy Haynes, This LP made Jones an overnight sensation when the title tune went gold, hitting the Top 40 on the Billboard pop charts and reaching number fve on the R\u0026amp;B charts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Supper Club","offers":[{"title":"Black LP.","offer_id":50398900420939,"sku":"2173735","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_621b1660_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726499466"},{"product_id":"don-t-go-to-strangers","title":"Don't Go To Strangers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon't Go to Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e was Etta Jones' first album for the independent jazz label Prestige when it was released in 1960 (having been recorded in a single session on June 21 of that year), and although Jones had been releasing records since 1944, including a dozen sides for RCA in 1946 and an album for King Records in 1957, she was treated as an overnight sensation when the title tune from the album went gold, hitting the Top 40 on the pop charts and reaching number five on the R\u0026amp;B charts. An elegant ballad on an album that had several of them, including the masterful \"If I Had You\" and a marvelous reading of \"All the Way,\" a song usually identified with Frank Sinatra, \"Don't Go to Strangers\" featured Jones' airy, bluesy phrasing and uncanny sense of spacing, and was very much a jazz performance, making its success on the pop charts all the more amazing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eListen to Jones' restructuring of the melody to the opening track, the old chestnut \"Yes Sir, That's My Baby,\" to hear a gifted jazz singer sliding and shifting the tone centre of a song like a veteran horn player, all the while leaving the melody still recognisable, but refreshing it until it stands revealed anew. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waxtime","offers":[{"title":"Pink | LP","offer_id":50441980313931,"sku":"1168195","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50441981002059,"sku":"2167917","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bc79b598-5e8e-4311-88b1-808f95b3387b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726989758"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/etta-jones.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}