This One's For Tedi
''This One's for Tedi'' is a studio album by American jazz vocalist Johnny Hartman, released in 1985 by Audiophile Records. It was his final studio recording, made in August 1980, three years before his death. The album is dedicated to Hartman's wife Theodora (Tedi). According to producer George H. Buck Jr., ''This One's for Tedi'' "was the first ''digital'' recording to be made in Canada." Reception Reception for ''This One's for Tedi'' has been mostly favorable. The album "finds the 56-year-old singer still in prime form," writes Scott Yanow at AllMusic. "Hartman is as warm as usual on ballads, and also swings lightly on a few medium-tempo pieces." Andrew Sussman, critic at ''Fanfare'', called the album "the most satisfying I have heard from him since his landmark LP with John Coltrane. . . . If Mel Torme is the 'Velvet Fog,' then Johnny Hartman was surely pure silk, singing most often through the rain of human tears." Sussman also complimented the musicians, saying "there ...
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Johnny Hartman
John Maurice Hartman (July 3, 1923 – September 15, 1983) was an American jazz singer who specialized in ballads. He sang and recorded with Earl Hines' and Dizzy Gillespie's big bands and with Erroll Garner. Hartman is best remembered for his collaboration in 1963 with saxophonist John Coltrane, ''John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman'', a landmark album for both him and Coltrane. Biography Born in Louisiana and raised in Chicago, Hartman began singing and playing the piano by the age of eight. He attended DuSable High School studying music under Walter Dyett before receiving a scholarship to the Chicago Musical College. He sang as a private in the Army's Special Services during World War II, but his first professional break came in September 1946 when he won a singing contest at the Apollo Theater, earning him a one-week engagement with Earl Hines, which lasted a year. Hartman's first recor