You just start to think you know Judith Durham as an artist and she surprises you, yet again. She reneged on her classical piano world and the possibility of a career in opera or musical theatre when she exuberantly embraced the teenage cult music of the day in the early Sixties.
Judith shows us on these vintage tracks, recorded in the early Seventies, how easily she transforms that golden voice to carry the music of the Twenties and Thirties for trad jazz aficionados into the Millennium on two albums recorded with bands she cofounded in San Francisco and in London with her late husband, brilliant pianist and arranger Ron Edgeworth.
Fans have begged, stolen and borrowed to replace their worn-out vinyls over the past four decades, and here they are again at last on a glorious 2CD set Judith Durham – The ‘Hottest Band In Town’ Collection (comprising Judith Durham & The Hottest Band In Town and Judith Durham & The Hottest Band In Town Volume 2) featuring seven of Judith’s own compositions and four bonus, never-before-released collector’s tracks.