Valerie Gillespie - Lush Life

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 72:44
Size: 166.5 MB
Styles: Straight ahead jazz
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[6:20] 1. Beautiful Love
[4:37] 2. Dearly Beloved
[7:42] 3. Honeysuckle Rose
[5:43] 4. Lush Life
[7:00] 5. Tanga
[8:00] 6. Maiden Voyage
[4:35] 7. Almost Like Being In Love
[5:01] 8. Don't Explain
[6:18] 9. Caravan
[6:29] 10. It's Alright With Me
[5:39] 11. Jane's Song
[5:12] 12. You're Everything

Valerie Gillespie was born in the beautiful state of Pennsylvania, where at the ripe old age of eight she picked up a saxophone for the first time. She was paid for her first professional gig at the age of fourteen and has been playing ever since, though not strictly on stage. Valerie paid her dues in the university classrooms just like the rest of us, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh with a major in Classical Saxophone Not content to stop there, she went on to get her Masters Degree in Jazz Saxophone from the University of South Florida in Tampa. Being a well-rounded player is something that is very important to Valerie. She might be seen one night playing classical pieces with the Florida Orchestra, the next evening playing with a jazz band in the park, then on Sunday morning you will usually find her playing in church.

Valerie's newest CD is entitled "Lush Life", and it spans a wide variety of straight ahead jazz, from the beautiful title track, "Lush Life" which is a Billy Strayhorn ballad, to the high-energy samba of Dizzy Gillespie titled "Tanga". From the traditional jazz tunes "Honeysuckle Rose", and Billie Holiday's "Don't Explain", to the more contemporary works of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" and Chick Corea's "You're Everything", this CD will take you on an historical jazz journey you won't soon forget.

Lush Life

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