Audrey Silver - Let Me Know Your Heart (New Link)

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:15
Size: 134,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:58)  1. When I Look in Your Eyes
(3:29)  2. Comes Love
(5:06)  3. Solsbury Hill
(3:35)  4. Plus Je T'embrasse
(4:02)  5. I Knew He Was There
(3:44)  6. Ever Since the World Ended
(5:14)  7. How Deep Is the Ocean
(4:05)  8. Giraffe Song
(4:53)  9. You Knew
(4:54) 10. Up Jumped Spring
(4:33) 11. Small Day Tomorrow
(3:09) 12. New Year's Eve
(3:41) 13. Let Me Know Your Heart
(3:44) 14. Can't We Be Friends

With a growing catalog of recordings and a warm, swinging performing style, Audrey Silver is one of the most elegantly creative singers in jazz today. Known for what Hot House Jazz has called “a velvet-laden timbre with impeccable phrasing,” Audrey has become renowned for her compelling takes on classic pop tunes as well as her own poignant originals.   Audrey’s composition style mines her vast musical experiences. She says “Songwriting comes from improvising if you can improvise in a melodic way, you can write a song.” Today, the New York City native releases her fourth album, Let Me Know Your Heart, which features her returning cast of players;  Bruce Barth on piano, trumpeter Marcus Printup, upright bassist Paul Beaudry, drummer Anthony Pinciotti, Tom Beckham on vibes and guitarist Marc Ciprut. The album’s collection of fourteen songs is centered artistically and emotionally on Audrey’s six newly-penned originals. Crediting musical luminaries as diverse as Bill Evans, Annie Lennox and Arnold Schoenberg as influences on her artistry, Audrey has found new challenges and satisfaction in becoming a songwriter. Receiving high praise for her vocal stylings, Jazz critics have reinforced a comparison she has heard her entire performing life, “Not since Karen Carpenter have I heard such a strong alto voice that is so pure and so convincing.”Audrey and her band will be celebrating the release of Let Me Know Your Heart with two sets of performance on Wednesday,  September 11th at The Zinc Bar in New York City. Tickets may be purchased here. https://don411.com/award-winning-vocalist-audrey-silver-releases-new-album-let-me-know-your-heart/#.XmTdTvRCeUk

Personnel: Bruce Barth on piano, trumpeter Marcus Printup, upright bassist Paul Beaudry, drummer Anthony Pinciotti, Tom Beckham on vibes and guitarist Marc Ciprut.

Let Me Know Your Heart

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Audrey Silver - Very Early

Size: 140,1 MB
Time: 59:53
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz/Pop Vocals
Art: Front

01. Galileo (4:54)
02. Surrey With The Fringe On Top (5:15)
03. The Cold Wind's Embrace (4:28)
04. Getting To Know You (6:25)
05. Goodbye New York (4:22)
06. Until (4:58)
07. Lemon Twist (4:29)
08. Very Early (4:28)
09. What's With You (5:10)
10. Jardin D'hiver (5:14)
11. Lucky To Be Me (4:29)
12. When The World Was New (5:35)

There's immediate comfort in encountering Audrey Silver's music for the first time. Her voice is an open invitation, an instrument of confession and creation that immediately transports you to someplace else. That's evident from her first utterances through her last words on Very Early.

In putting together this program, Silver thought long and hard about song selection. It shows, both in the eclectic playlist she created and through the unique arrangements born of her thoughts and Steven Santoro's clever pen. Everything from overdone Broadway favorites to original material to jazz standards sounds fresh in these interpretations.

Irish singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke's "Galileo" provides a gentle entryway into Very Early, with pianist Bruce Barth's woolgathering serving as a dreamy introduction. Silver then settles in to tell the tale of a wrestling match between emotion and intellect in the titular figure, never underselling the lyrics or overplaying the heart, and it proves to be one for the books. Then there's a spin through "Surrey With The Fringe On Top" in five, a riveting original collaboration between Silver and Dominique Gagné dubbed "The Cold Wind's Embrace," and a shadowy take on "Getting To Know You" that's more a tale of lurking and voyeurism than a sign of positive personal discoveries. Smart writing, twists in intention, and big-picture talent play as one in these first selections and the music that follows.

While originals often play as substandard filler that sits between the welcome and familiar fare on vocal jazz albums, that couldn't be further from the truth here. "Goodbye New York," with lyrics from poet Deborah Garrison, is a memorable paean to The Big Apple that rests at a balance point between adult-oriented pop and jazz, "When The World Was New" speaks with a contemplative beauty that's heightened by Tom Beckham's vibraphone and Gary Versace's accordion, and the aforementioned "The Cold Wind's Embrace" is a powerful statement that ties Silver to her late mother and addresses the depressive streaks they share. Pieces like those stand on equal footing with pure jazz expressions like Bill Evans's "Very Early," beautifully and expertly rendered in trio here with Beckham and bassist Paul Beaudry, and semi-outliers like Sting's alluring "Until."

In addition to the aforementioned material, Silver investigates the work of everybody from Bobby Troup to Mose Allison to Keren Ann to Leonard Bernstein, constantly putting herself to the test in different ways and always coming out on top. Audrey Silver may not have widespread name recognition, but she certainly has the talent to get it. ~By Dan Bilawsky

Personnel: Audrey Silver: vocals; Bruce Barth: piano (1-7, 9-12); Paul Beaudry: bass; Lewis Nash: drums (1-7, 9-12); Alex Pope Norris: trumpet (2, 3, 6, 10); Gary Versace: accordion (6, 12); Ron Affif: guitar (9); Tom Beckham: vibraphone (7, 8, 12).

Very Early

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Audrey Silver - Dream Awhile

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:43
Size: 110,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:16)  1. The Song Is Ended
(4:27)  2. In The Wee Small Hours
(4:00)  3. Falling In Love With Love
(4:41)  4. Too Marvelous For Words
(3:51)  5. I Will Wait For You
(4:52)  6. So Many Stars
(3:10)  7. Exactly Like You
(4:37)  8. That's All
(4:33)  9. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
(5:51) 10. Day Dream
(2:19) 11. I Could Write A Book

Reviews touting a singer's perfect diction are reminiscent of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (or the Lerner and Lowe 1956 musical and 1964 movie, My Fair Lady), and the plight of Eliza Doolittle to straighten out her coarse Cockney into the Queen's speech). Diction has been a driving force in describing singer Audrey Silver's sophomore recording Dream Awhile. The issue is not that Silver has perfect diction (she has) but why it is so perfect. Silver's first recording, Here in My Arms (Self Produced, 2004) was a prelude to the current offering in that Silver chose recital pieces less travelled. Certainly, all of her music is from the Great American Song Book, but it is chosen carefully, with the more tired pieces avoided. 

It was immediately evident that Silver's silvery alto is as perfect at the edges as it is in the middle, a phenomenon of uniform density throughout. It is this basic characteristic that allows Silver to sing what she wants and how she wants, while entertaining all at the same time. Dream Awhile finds Silver again employing a smaller band (a rhythm section-based quintet) that provides perfect support, competent soloing, and plush cushion to Silver's sturdy, take-no-prisoner's voice. Her commanding stroll through "The Song is Ended," "In The Wee Small Hours" and "Too Marvelous for Words" shows Silver confident and sexy, well-supported by pianist Joe "Sonny" Barbato, who had the lion's share of the arranging duties. The result is an excellent vocal outing, one that shows how jazz singing is to be done. ~ C.Michael Bailey   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/dream-awhile-audrey-silver-self-produced-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php#.U62VXrG4OSo
 

Personnel: Audrey Silver: vocals; Joe Barbato: piano; Joe Fitzgerald: bass; Chris Bergson: guitar; Anthony Pinciotti: drums; Todd Isler: drums, percussion.

Dream Awhile

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