Jelena Ana Milcetic a.k.a. Helen Merrill

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Jelena Ana Milcetic a.k.a. Helen Merrill is a 2000 studio album by Helen Merrill. The album is a tribute to Merrill's Croatian heritage.

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Allmusic

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".

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

• Helen Merrill - vocals
• Dominic Cortese - accordion
• Gil Goldstein - accordion, arranger, piano
• Torrie Zito - arranger, conductor, fender rhodes
• Jesse Levy - cello
• Frank Zuback - conductor
• George Mraz - double bass
• Jeff Mironov - guitar
• Gloria Agostini - harp
• Dennis Anderson - english horn, oboe
• Steve Kroon - percussion
• Roland Hanna - piano
• Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone