Regina Carter - I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey
Verve  (2006)
Jazz

In Collection
#873

7*
CD  63:05
12 tracks
   01   Anitra's Dance             02:55
   02   Little Brown Jug             04:46
   03   Bei Mir Bist Du Schon             04:43
   04   Sentimental Journey             06:07
   05   You Took Advantage of Me             04:55
   06   St. Louis Blues             07:09
   07   A-Tisket, A-Tasket             08:01
   08   Blue Rose             02:52
   09   This Can't Be Love             05:15
   10   How Ruth Felt             05:52
   11   There's a Small Hotel             05:21
   12   I'll Be Seeing You             05:09
Personal Details
Details
Country USA
Original Release Date 2006
Packaging Jewel Case
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Notes
Original Release Date: June 13, 2006

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Violinist Regina Carter recorded I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey following her mother's death. A tribute to her mom, it features period songs she was fond of. But far from wallowing in sentimentality, it's a spirited work of reflection featuring vocals by the irrepressible Dee Dee Bridgwater on two songs, including a freewheeling "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," and the charismatic Carla Cook on three tunes, including a darkly glowing "St. Louis Blues." Teaming to warmly atmospheric effect part of the time with clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and accordionist Gil Goldstein, Carter readily avoids easy nostalgia, whether basking in the childlike delights of "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," "Little Brown Jug" and "Anitra's Dance" (the Peer Gynt classic, taken from the great '30s bandleader John Kirby's arrangement), or the more sophisticated of emotion of Duke Ellington's "Blue Rose" and "I'll Be Seeing You." Produced by John Clayton, the album doesn't rise to the heights of Freefall, Carter's 2001 duo recording with pianist Kenny Barron, but its easygoing qualities win out over the slick high conceptualism of some of her other efforts. --Lloyd Sachs