Dakota Staton - All in My Mind - A Singles Collection 1954-62 [CD]

JASMINE RECORDS

£10.49

Cat. no: JASMCD2748
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988274820
Release Date: 28 Oct 2022
Genre: Jazz

The hugely versatile Dakota Staton was equally comfortable handling R&B, jazz, blues and soul, as her recorded legacy afrms

Once described by the New York Times as "a stylistic link between the earthiness of Dinah Washington and Big Maybelle, and Chaka Khan's note-bending pop-funk iconoclasm", her earliest releases were aimed squarely at the R&B market.

Indeed, they made sufcient a stir that deejay Alan Freed featured Dakota's discs on his daily R&R radio shows, and even featured her on the bills of a couple of his earliest R&R concerts.

But once her record company, Capitol, got her cutting LPs, Staton moved easily into the Jazz feld where she carved out a mighty reputation and proceeded to sell hundreds of thousands of albums.

However, her LPs are freely available on CD elsewhere; this unique compilation concentrates on her singles releases between 1954-62, and includes a number of sides which never made it onto LP.

Tracks: My Heart's Delight / For The Rest Of My Life / Don't Leave Me Now / A Little You / Abracadabra / It Feels So Nice / A Dangerous Age / Weak For The Man / Don't Mean Maybe / I Told You So / You Know I Do / The Late, Late Show / Invitation / The Party's Over / Confessin' The Blues / A Foggy Day / Avalon / Close Your Eyes / Congratulations To Someone / My Babe / Romance In The Dark / I Won't Worry / All In My Mind / Hey Lawdy Mama / 'Round Midnight / Knock Me A Kiss / Mean And Evil Blues / Porgy / You Better Go Now / Once There Lived A Fool