Gladys Carbò

LP version. Street Cries is the first album by Gladys Carbò, a Havana-born singer who had grown up between Cuba and New York and settled in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, where she began performing in the mid-1980s. A self-produced EP led to a contract with Soul Note in 1987, and this record followed in 1990. It mixes her own songs with standards from the American songbook. Carbò later recorded under the name Havana Carbo, and she died in Massachusetts in October 2015.

The album was recorded and mixed at RBY Recording Studio in Southbury, Connecticut, between June 1987 and December 1988, with Evan Jones and Jack Jones engineering and Giovanni Bonandrini producing; Carbò wrote the arrangements and was executive producer. The musicians are guitarist Gene Bertoncini, bassist Michael Moore, pianist John Sauer, trumpeter Marvin Stamm and saxophonist and flautist Wally Kane, with Ted Moore and Jim Saporito on drums and congas. Half the ten songs are Carbò's own, among them the title track, Sometimes and Ethan's World. The other half are standards: I'll Remember April, Lover Man, Out Of Nowhere, A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square and If I Should Lose You. On this LP the two songs taped earlier, in 1985 at the same studio, are Another Summer and My Song, the third and fifth tracks of side one.

This is a copy of the original 1990 Soul Note LP, catalogue number 121 197-1, on 140 gram vinyl: CAM Jazz, which now owns the label, describes it as original stock recently rediscovered in its vaults.