Thursday, March 20, 2008

Trudy (1977)



From the liner notes to Trudy's unreleased eponymous album:

It started in the fifties and ended in the fifties—I mean the first part of my professional career. Oh, I'd always loved popular music. I played the records of Frank, Ella, Sarah and Billie till they wore out. Then I joined Charlie Barnet's great swinging band and cut my teeth on the ways of the music world. After that, I did my own thing...you know...recordings, night clubs, Catskill Hotels—all of it. Suddenly, it was rock and roll time (not my metier) so I met and married a beautiful, wild French Canadian and bowed out of show biz. Henri and I proceeded to live the "good life". We spent summers in the Hamptons, skied the European Alps in winter, lived it up and settled down in our jazzy Manhattan tower, overlooking the east River. Perfect! Right? Wrong! Something was missing—my involvement in the crazy world of singing popular song...performing! I missed the only real way I was ever able to express myself and be creative.


So I'm back. This is my first time out since the fifties...and oh what heaven to be in a recording studio full of the greatest musicians around...to be carefully guided by the enormously talented producer, arranger, pianist, composer, Jimmy Wisner—all of us, just making music. God! Do we ever hope you like us, our tune selections, the way we've done them—the whole package.


I love you all,

Trudy Richards Moreau

Posted by Josh K-sky @ 8:02 PM