Johnny Hartman was the quintessential romantic balladeer. The only singer to record with John Coltrane, Hartman was mostly known only to true jazz lovers during his lifetime. It took a movie soundtrack -- released 12 years after his death -- that took Hartman to the top of the jazz ...
The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story. By Gregg Akkerman. Toronto: Scarecrow, 2012. 367pp (hardcover). Discography, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 978-0-8108-8281-2 This book fills a notable hole in jazz biography. Johnny Hartman, thanks largely to his single-album ...
“I Thought About You” proved quite popular and has been recorded many times by jazz performers including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Hartman, Shirley Horn, Dinah Washington, and Mel Tormé. About This Version Tony Bennett recorded “I Thought About You” inJune 1992for...