Speak Low:
Pinky Winters Sings, Lou Levy Plays

Speak Low (Ogden Nash - Kurt Weill)
If I Were a Bell (Frank Loesser)
I Am In Love (Cole Porter)
You Say You Care / Dance Only With Me (Leo Robin - Jule Styne/Betty Comden - Adolph Green -Jule Styne)
Dolphin # (Luiz Eça)
Never Let Me Go (Ray Evans - Jay Livingston)
The Trolley Song (Hugh Martin - Ralph Blane)
Oh! Lady, Be Good! (George Gershwin - Ira Gershwin)
The Piccolino # (Irving Berlin)
Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead (E.Y. Harburg - Harold Arlen)
I'm Old-Fashioned (Jerome Kern - Johnny Mercer)
No More Blues (Antonio Carlos Jobim - Jon Hendricks - Jessie Cavanaugh)

Pinky Winters, vocals (except #) Lou Levy, piano Bill Takas, bass

Recorded "Live" @ The Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. - February 27, 1983 Release Producer: Bill Reed Distributed by: BounDEE, Inc., as part of "Sinatra Society Of Japan Presents" Series Cover photo: Takashi Yoko-o Special thanks to: Joel E. Siegel Liner notes: Thierry Pérémarti: "At the beginning of the 1980s, Lanny Morgan of Supersax called Pinky Winters to do an engagement at L.A. Donte’s. 'That’s how I met Lou Levy,' says Winters. He was a goldsmith. A pianist with an inquiring mind. Taste to burn. 'He meticulously examined original scores to understand the composers’ intentions,' she says. The man had worked with Sinatra, Vaughan, Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and many other jazz vocalists. Pinky and Lou understood each other instantly. (Levy died in 2001.) Today Pinky, a recording artist since the mid-fifties, sings for real. She sings to have the last word. 'When I listen to my first recording, I ask myself, "Who is this woman?"' These days, she takes even more care with the melody and sings the standards from deep inside as if she’d written them herself. At twenty you can’t do that. Really, the future looks bright. As bandleader Bob Florence remarked, “Her voice is like jumping into a tub of butterscotch.” First published in Jazzman (France), Sept. 2006. Translated and abridged. There are also extensive Japanese notes by Yasuo Sangu.