This 'live' nightclub date with a jazz trio, revealed to be a faked on the Columbia compilations that have since come out, is nonetheless a great LP, maybe the best single Columbia LP from Aretha. John Hammond discovered her and just wanted great music, but the label couldn't decide if she was a show tune singer, jazz or r&b and never figured out she was all of the above and deserved her own category. This is the most jazzy Aretha ever and if she'd wanted to concentrate on this one area of her talent, she would still be ruling it. Hopefully Columbia will issue the undoctored recordings complete some day soon. The clicking silverware and audience murmurs as if they were ignoring her are actually distracting on a couple of songs, which given that it was dubbed in are overkill besides being ridiculous.
This would be Franklin's last collection of jazz recordings until the release of 1973's Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky), released during her landmark tenure at Atlantic Records.
01. This Could Be the Start of Something (Steve Allen) (1:23)
02. Once In a Lifetime (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) (3:20)
03. Misty (Erroll Garner, Johnny Burke) (3:35)
04. More (Nino Oliviero, Riz Ortolani, Norman Newell) (1:55)
05. There Is No Greater Love (Isham Jones, Marty Symes) (4:39)
06. Muddy Water (Harry Richman, Jo Trent, Peter De Rose) (2:22)
07. If I Had a Hammer (Lee Hays, Pete Seeger) (2:29)
08. Impossible (Steve Allen) (3:22)
09. Today I Love Ev'rybody (Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields) (3:24)
10. Without The One You Love (Aretha Franklin) (3:34)
11. Trouble in Mind (Richard M. Jones) (2:53)
12. Love for Sale (Cole Porter) (2:29)
Label - Columbia Records
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