Size: 129,1 MB
Time: 55:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front
01. A Time For Love (5:05)
02. A Foggy Day (3:02)
03. Early Autumn (4:43)
04. Besame Mucho (5:11)
05. Always On My Mind (3:11)
06. No Moon At All (3:21)
07. The Gentle Rain (5:08)
08. Cry Me A River (5:23)
09. The Island (5:49)
10. Everytime We Say Goodbye (5:10)
11. This Masquerade (5:04)
12. With You I'm Born Again (4:08)
I've always enjoyed the intimate club venues and the camaraderie of the local and out-of-town people I meet on a weekly basis. These are the folks that keep me going, that make me want to show up every night. They listen, they hear, and then they want to take the music home with them. This past year I spent some time in the studio with one of my favorite piano players, Eddie Tobin and we managed to record a few great songs in a short time. The result was three albums of jazz standards done the way we do them every night in the club. Just nice stuff!
Our first album, "When Love Comes Around The Corner, released in October 2016, is in it's second pressing thanks to our fans and friends. Wow! It's a great feeling to get these songs out there and to know that you, the listener, are enjoying the effort and helping make dreams and goals become realities.
"Something Cool," is the second album Eddie and I recorded this year and the title song is in tribute to one of my favorite female vocalists, June Christy. Hope I did it credit June! I am excited about this album that we released early 2017. Some great songs that don't get recorded that often anymore and they were fun to do.
"A Time For Love" is the third and final album in this series of jazz standards that Eddie and I recorded this past year and the choices here make a nice velvety bookend to the trilogy. Lots of great love songs to sit back and just listen to and enjoy. It will be released in November 2017.
I re-entered this world of music 25 years ago and have been lucky to spend time with some pretty amazing musicians both on the job and in classes and clinics. Jazz vocalists like Madeline Eastman whose credits include Director of the Stanford Jazz Clinic Vocal Workshop, and Artistic Director of Jazz Camp West who taught me to stretch, take chances and what it means to “swing” a song – no matter the tempo. Rebecca Paris, who I credit with making me aware of the importance of being authentic in my presentation of a song and telling the story so it can be understood and embraced by everyone listening. Mark Murphy who taught me why phrasing and dynamics are important in making a song interpretation my own. My husband, Tom Renaud who taught me that while I may be fronting the band, the best thing about the experience is being “part” of the band. And Diane Schuur, who after giving me a few critical pointers on presentation said, “I hope you are singing somewhere and often. You need to be heard.” Pretty fast company for me at the time. Still is! These are just some of the people who have been influential in helping me become the singer and performer I am today.
In my career I have always stuck around my home base where I live and play. Home for me was San Francisco for many years. I've also lived and worked in Ft. Lauderdale, Sacramento, Virginia Beach, Charlotte, San Jose, and for several years now, back in the Sarasota area of Florida. I've had the good fortune to perform with some of the most amazing musicians who, like me, have either stuck to their home base, or returned to their home bases after years on the road. We have the distinct pleasure of creating musical magic for ourselves and our fans. The list is long, but just to name a few musicians you might recognize, there is Steve Homan and Boyd Phelps in California. Jim Stack and Doug Henry in North Carolina. The After Six Big Band in Sacramento, opening for Pete Escovedo and Pancho Sanchez in a concert series with Nancy Wilson, Joe Williams and Louie Bellson. In the Sarasota area, Charlie Prawdzik, Fred Williams, and Mark Neuenschwander and concerts for the Sarasota Jazz Club. And for eighteen years my amazingly talented husband, Tom Renaud and I have worked a duo act wherever we've lived.
For the past five years, Eddie Tobin, my musical collaborator on this album, has become a huge part of my musical life. When we make music together it ebbs and flows, circles with energy and fun, softness and stillness, magical sounds and spaces. It just flows. We communicate and it feels good! Let me tell you a little about him.
Eddie Tobin is a piano player, arranger, vocalist, and entertainer extraordinaire and the consummate musician who truly cares about what he is presenting to the public. He started out on accordion at 5, piano at 11, and then studied music at the University of Miami with his mentor, Vince Laurence Maggio. For years he played around the Miami area, on cruise ships, and then performed all over the United States. Tell him where you are from and he has probably played there. Really! In 1987, he made Nashville his home for 15 years. He played for the Forester Sisters, opened for Kenny Rogers, played with Brenda Lee, and then became pianist and conductor for a show band for four years. Then came a seven and a half year ride as pianist, music director and conductor for Engelbert Humperdinck, performing all over the world at places like the London Palladium, Montreal’s Place Des Arts, the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, and the Kremlin Palace of Moscow and traveling to Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, and at various casinos in Las Vegas and around the country. Over the years his repertoire has grown to include a lot of genres. He covers most of it. For the past twelve years he has resided here on the west coast of Florida and has become one of Sarasota's fraternity of fine musicians and one of the busiest musicians in the area. Aren't we lucky!
I've always enjoyed the intimate club venues and the camaraderie of the local and out-of-town people I meet on a weekly basis. These are the folks that keep me going, that make me want to show up every night. They listen, they hear, and then they want to take the music home with them. And while it's been a long time coming, this album is a result of those requests. An album of requested favorites and some personal favorites. Two more albums are in production for release in 2017. Just like the kid I was so long ago, I just couldn't stop singing my songs. It's been quite a journey so far - one I wouldn't want to have missed for the world. And far from over!
A Time For Love
