Shannon Gibbons

Shannon Gibbons is a vocal album of standards by the singer Shannon Gibbons, recorded in New York for Soul Note and released in 1987. She is accompanied by a piano trio led by Kenny Barron and by a trumpeter from the band of Max Roach, and the nine songs keep to the American popular book, from This Could Be The Start Of Something Big to You Don't Know What Love Is.

Gibbons sings with Barron on piano, Rufus Reid on bass and Ben Riley on drums, with Cecil Bridgewater on trumpet and flugelhorn. Bridgewater was then Roach's trumpeter, heard on his Soul Note albums from the quartet date In The Light, taped in Milan in 1982, to the Double Quartet's Bright Moments of 1986. The sequence alternates short and long. This Can't Be Love, Just In Time and There Will Never Be Another You, each around three minutes, sit between longer songs: But Beautiful, Lately, Make Someone Happy, My One And Only Love and the closing You Don't Know What Love Is, at over six minutes the longest track. The whole record lasts about forty-one minutes.

Soul Note CD 121163-2 of the album first released in 1987 as SN 1163.