He Never Mentioned Love
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 4, 2007
RecordedDecember 2–4, 2006
GenreVocal jazz
Length32:18
LabelLinn[1]
Claire Martin chronology
When Lights Are Low
(2005)
He Never Mentioned Love
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Guardian[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

He Never Mentioned Love is an album by Claire Martin, released in 2007.[2][4]

Critical reception

The Guardian wrote: "Having covered a lot of ground on her previous albums without demonstrating a convincing emotional range, here she ticks that final box and becomes the complete jazz singer she's always threatened to be."[2]

Track listing

  1. "He Never Mentioned Love" (Curtis Reginald Lewis) – 5:08
  2. "Forget Me" (Valerie Brown Parks) – 3:59
  3. "Everything Must Change" (Benard Ighner) – 5:18
  4. "Trav'llin Light" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young) – 2:44
  5. "The Music That Makes Me Dance" (Bob Merrill, Jule Styne) – 6:11
  6. "All Night Long" (Curtis) – 3:41
  7. "If You Go" (Geoffrey Claremont Parsons, Michel Emer) – 4:57
  8. "A Song for You" (Leon Russell) – 4:59
  9. "Slowly But Shirley" (Laurence Cottle, Claire Martin) – 4:07
  10. "You're Nearer" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 4:39
  11. "L.A. Breakdown" (Larry B. Marks) – 5:23
  12. "Slow Time" (Ian Shaw) – 4:09
  13. "The Sun Died" (Ray Charles, Hubert Giraud, Anne Gregory, Pierre LeRoye) – 5:26

Personnel

References

  1. Shackleton, Kathryn. "BBC – Music – Review of Claire Martin – He Never Mentioned Love". www.bbc.co.uk.
  2. 1 2 3 "CD: Claire Martin, He Never Mentioned Love". the Guardian. 19 May 2007.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 956. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Davis, Clive. "Claire Martin" via www.thetimes.co.uk.
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