Mavis
Staples – We Get By
Mavis
Staples returns with a brand-new studio album produced and written by Ben
Harper. Backed by Mavis’ critically acclaimed live band, We Get By features 10
songs of longing, strength, and spirituality, presented with simplicity, grit
and sublime beauty. Highlights include the buoyant, “Anytime,” the cathartic
“Change,” the title track, an uplifting duet with Ben Harper, plus “Brothers
And Sisters,” “ Heavy On My Mind,” “Sometime,” “Never Needed Anyone,” “Stronger,”
“Chance On Me.” “Hard To Leave,” and “One More Change.”
Mavis Pan –
Set For Love
Set For Love
is the new album from accomplished Asian-American pianist and composer Mavis
Pan. Equally proficient in both jazz and classical music, Pan has performed her
works across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and has
received numerous accolades including Brooklyn College Conservatory’s Morton
Feldman and Miriam Gideon composer awards and was a finalist in the YPMP/CACA
piano competition. Set For Love was produced by Grammy Award-winning drummer
and producer Ulysses Owens, Jr. and showcases a collective of exceptional
musicians that accompany Pan in various settings. The album explores love in
many contexts including head-over-heels love, love in trouble, love
anticipated, and love remembered, and completes a cycle of jazz styles
including ballad, blues, bolero, bossa-nova, samba, swing, tango, and waltz,
all on the timeless theme of love.
Nicole Banks
Long - Fly
Southern
bred multi-talented vocal interpreter and songwriter Nicole Banks Long brings a
fascinating background – including musical theater performer and contributor to
Rod McGaha’s jazz fusion album THE SERVANT - to her a fresh, sultry emergence
in Smooth Jazz with the release of her debut album FLY. Balancing honest
emotion to her balance of hushed intimacy and deeply soul dramatic flair, the
singer finds her unique voice as an artist while cleverly re-imagining classics
and lesser known tunes by the likes of Al Jarreau, Roberta Flack, Shirley Horn,
Phoebe Snow, Nancy Wilson and others. A sly and insightful storyteller, Banks
Long also shares a powerful sense of social consciousness on her two standout
originals. ~ www.smoothjazz.com
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