Jelena Ana Milcactic a.k.a. Helen Merrill

Jelena Ana Milcactic a.k.a. Helen Merrill
Studio album by Helen Merrill
Released January 18, 2000
Recorded 1999
Genre Vocal jazz
Length 53:13
Label Verve
Helen Merrill chronology

You and the Night and the Music
(1998)		 Jelena Ana Milcactic a.k.a. Helen Merrill
(2000)		 Lilac Wine
(2003)

Jelena Ana Milcactic a.k.a. Helen Merrill is a 2000 studio album by Helen Merrill.[1]

The album is a tribute to Merrill's Croatian heritage.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Source Rating
Allmusic [1]

The Allmusic review by Alex Henderson awarded the album four and a half stars and said it was a "Helen Merrill has never been afraid to take chances, but the veteran jazz singer is especially ambitious on Jelena Ana Milcetic, an autobiographical (or at least semi-autobiographical) work that draws on jazz, pop, and folk as well as traditional Croatian music...But as unpredictable and eclectic as this album is, the CD never sounds confused or aimless...everything fits together perfectly. Jelena Ana Milcetic is among Merrill's most impressive accomplishments".[1]

Track listing

  1. "Kirje" - 3:15
  2. "Imagining KRK" - 2:15
  3. "Long, Long Ago" (Thomas Haynes Bayly) - 4:35
  4. "My Father" - 7:18
  5. "La Paloma" (Sebastián Iradier) - 5:57
  6. "Tanac" (Traditional) - 1:41
  7. "Wayfarin' Stranger" (Traditional) - 4:26
  8. "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" (Thomas P. Westendorf) - 5:30
  9. "Lost in the Stars" (Kurt Weill, Maxwell Anderson) - 5:19
  10. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 5:36
  11. "Among My Souvenirs" (Edgar Leslie, Lawrence Wright) - 3:47
  12. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" (Traditional) - 2:33
  13. "Ti Si Rajski Cvijet (You Are a Flower from Paradise)" - 1:01

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Jelena Ana Milcactic a.k.a. Helen Merrill". Allmusic. Retrieved May 7, 2011.