Singer Karrin Allyson was signed to Concord Jazz by that label’s founder, Carl Jefferson, in 1993. From that year’s I Didn’t Know About You to last year’s Imagina: Songs of Brasil, she released 11 albums on the Concord Jazz imprint over the next 15 years. To celebrate Allyson’s fruitful and longstanding relationship with the label, Concord Jazz released Allyson’s 12th disc, a greatest hits collection, on June 30.
By Request: The Best of Karrin Allyson, a 13-track overview of the singer’s career to date, features one of Allyson’s top downloaded songs, “Cherokee,” and the previously unreleased “Next Time Around” (Soultrane)” to complement 11 additional cuts drawn from her back catalog. Here are the complete track listings:
1. Night and Day
2. Moanin’
3. What’s New
4. O Pato (The Duck)
5. Sous Le Ceil De Paris (Under Paris Skies)
6. Life Is a Groove (Jordu)
7. Everything Must Change
8. A Felicidade (Happiness)
9. Sweet Home Cookin’ Man
10. Nature Boy
11. And So It Goes
12. Cherokee
13. Next Time Around (Soultrane)
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