Dena DeRose - Ode to the Road

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2020
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:18
Size: 149,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:00)  1. Ode to the Road
(5:34)  2. Nothing Like You
(6:14)  3. Don't Ask Why
(6:46)  4. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm / Little Willie Leaps
(5:25)  5. That Second Look
(5:28)  6. Small Day Tomorrow
(6:28)  7. The Way We Were
(6:06)  8. Cross Me Off Your List
(5:55)  9. I Have the Feeling I've Been Here Before
(5:29) 10. A Tip of the Hat
(6:48) 11. The Days of Wine and Roses

Thin pickings so far this year in terms of top jazz vocals albums and now thankfully this. I haven't heard a Dena DeRose album in years worse luck and the singer-pianist does not disappoint here. And yet this record, shaped round a core trio, is very out of place, it's classic jazz, so American, but does not sit easily in much jazz issued in 2020. Yet some things do not go out of fashion. Hipster, swinging, slightly cynical, worldly wise, a very sophisticated jazz club kind of record and yet all the clubs are shut. The irony suits. https://www.marlbank.net/posts/ode-to-the-road-and-the-jazz-we-are-miss
 

Musician:  Dena DeRose, vocals & piano; Martin Wind, bass; Matt Wilson, drums; with special guests Sheila Jordan; Houston Person; Jeremy Pelt

Ode to the Road

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