Belafonte Sings the Blues
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The late Harry Belafonte’s seventh album might have been — by his standards — something of a flop, not quite having the effervescent dazzle of 1956’s smash hit Calypso, but these stripped-back arrangements of covers of songs by Ledbetter, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday and more allow Belafonte’s voice to luxuriate in exquisite, smoky, late-night surroundings. Strictly speaking, with a couple of exceptions these are jazz standards rather than the titular blues (even Ledbetter’s “Cotton Fields” comes with a big-band swish), but that’s beside the point.