King Pleasure Signed Record Album Sings – COA JSA

Presented is a rare King Pleasure Sings album autographed by the legendary Jazz vocalese wonder, King Pleasure. King Pleasure died in March of 1982. He signed it on the front cover in the blue ballpoint (“6” aged) on the front cover with some notations, “To Tasso, my man best – Keep on Swinging” . The original record is included with the cover displaying wear from storage and aging.

King Pleasure first gained attention by singing the Eddie Jefferson vocalese classic “Moody’s Mood For Love”, based on a 1949 James Moody saxophone solo to “I’m In The Mood For Love”.Pleasure’s 1952 recording, his first after signing a contract with the Prestige label, is considered a jazz classic; the female vocalist featured is Blossom Dearie. He and Betty Carter also recorded a famous vocalese version of “Red Top”, a jazz classic penned by Kansas Citian Ben Kynard and recorded by Gene Ammons and others. Other notable recordings include a presciently elegiac version of “Parker’s Mood”, the year before Charlie Parker died in 1955, and Pleasure’s take on Ammons’s “Hittin’ The Jug”, retitled as “Swan Blues” in 1962. H

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King Pleasure Signed Record Album