Showing posts with label Debra Mann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Debra Mann. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Debra Mann - From The Heart

Size: 139,4 MB
Time: 59:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. From The Heart (5:25)
02. Hearts Desire (6:19)
03. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (3:45)
04. Estate (Summer) (5:54)
05. We'll Be Together Again (3:48)
06. The Nearness Of You (6:00)
07. The Island (4:29)
08. Look For The Silver Lining (4:03)
09. That's All (4:44)
10. You Must Believe In Spring (5:21)
11. Some Other Time (5:36)
12. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (4:15)

Debra Mann is an established jazz pianist/vocalist of the highest quality, with twenty plus years performing experience. She has performed and recorded extensively with her trio primarily in the New England area since 1990. Venues include concerts, festivals, nightclubs, and four-star hotels. The trio, which is comprised of piano, bass, and drums, specializes in American standards from the swing era to modern, as well as Brazilian bossa nova and samba music. Original compositions augment the repertoire of the trio. The basic trio is often embellished with a horn player, percussionist, and/or guitarist. A great, soulful, ambient ensemble with a solid chemistry and contagious warmth, and dynamically sensitive musicians all around!

From The Heart

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Debra Mann - A Time For Love

Size: 147,8 MB
Time: 63:21
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. You're Everything (4:24)
02. Hold On To My Love (6:00)
03. You Can Count On Me (3:08)
04. Agua De Beber (6:17)
05. A Time For Love (6:16)
06. I'm Old Fashioned (2:58)
07. How My Heart Sings (5:19)
08. Love Reborn (5:19)
09. I'm All Smiles (4:11)
10. Don't Go To Strangers (5:38)
11. From The Heart (3:44)
12. Lush Life (6:12)
13. Song For The Vineyard (3:49)

Debra Mann is widely recognized as Rhode Island’s premier jazz pianist and vocalist. She graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music, Boston, studied jazz piano with Jeff Covell, Charlie Banacos, Harvey Diamond, Hal Crook, Diamond Centofanti, and Bob Winter, classical piano studies with Ed Bedner. vocal training with classical voice teachers, Dante Pavone & Annamaria Saritelli, Somatic VoiceWork, the LoVetri Method founder, Jeannie LoVetri, and jazz vocal improvisation with Bob Stoloff.

Since graduating from Berklee, Debra has performed extensively as a solo artist and in various groups throughout the New England area at venues of all sizes, including jazz clubs, concert halls, and festivals, while sharing the stage with well known artists including Dick Johnson, Herb Pomeroy, Gray Sargent, Marshall Wood, Ted Casher, Billy Novick, Greg Hopkins, Greg Abate, John LaPorta, Dave Zinno, Dino Govoni, Jay Azzolina, John Lockwood, Marty Richards, Marty Ballou, Mike Monaghan, Dan Moretti, Ed Tomassi, Oscar Stagnaro, Nanny Assis, Claudio Ragazzi, Bob Gullotti, Jon Wheatley, Jeff Stout, John Allmark, Ed Saindon, and many others.

In 1990 she established the Debra Mann Trio, which has since been expanded to a quintet that features world-class musicians. They perform American Jazz standards, Brazilian jazz music, original compositions, and concerts that feature the music of iconic singer/songwriter, Joni Mitchell, Brazilian composer and national treasure, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and jazz pianist/composer, Dave Frishberg.

Debra has performed at Symphony Hall, Boston, as a featured guest soloist with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra. She had the distinct honor of performing at the request of Frank Sinatra. In celebration of Women’s History Month she performed with her trio on Ron Dellachiesa’s WGBH radio program “Music America”.

Debra Mann is a Whaling City Sound recording artist. Her newest recording, Full Circle, features the music of Joni Mitchell, and will be released in early 2018. She has released three CD recordings on her record label, Jobe Records. “From the Heart” was nominated “Best local recording” by the Providence Phoenix. “A Time for Love” was released to a sold out concert at Chan’s, RI’s premier jazz club. “Home” was placed on the Official Ballot for the 2010 Grammy Awards by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in several categories including Record of the Year ('Autumn'), Album of the Year ('Home'), Song of the Year ('Heart of Love'), Best Pop Vocal Album ('Home'), and Best Improvised Jazz Solo (‘Autumn').

Debra is a passionate Jazz educator. She is a member of the Jazz Education Network, as well as the Providence Musicians Union. She is in demand as a jazz voice and piano teacher. She joined the faculty at Brown University in 2014, and Wheaton College in 2015. She is a certified teacher in Somatic VoiceWork, the LoVetri Method. Her approach to teaching is wholistic, encompassing technique, theory, repertoire, improvisation, composition, arranging, performance techniques, and helping students discover and develop their own personal style.

A Time For Love

Monday, October 15, 2018

Debra Mann - Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2018
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:50
Size: 151,1 MB
Art: Front

(5:40)  1. Black Crow
(4:55)  2. Jericho
(3:51)  3. Be Cool
(5:23)  4. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
(5:32)  5. Both Sides Now
(7:51)  6. The Circle Game
(2:53)  7. Big Yellow Taxi
(4:22)  8. Blue
(6:07)  9. A Case of You
(4:41) 10. The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines
(6:51) 11. Urge for Going
(6:38) 12. Woodstock

Joni Mitchell's metamorphosis from acoustic chanteuse of folk music to sophisticated performer of jazz, accompanied by geniuses like Pastorius, Shorter, Metheny, and Brecker, among others, made an indelible impression on Debra Mann. The piano/voice teacher and Berklee College grad seized on the idea of taking Mitchell's material further into jazz and began performing in small concert venues. It captivated her audiences in the same way it did Mann herself. ''Joni's lyrics, combined with her gorgeous melodies, carried on the wind of her unique voice, struck deep chords of feeling within me.'' 'Full Circle' reflects on a lifetime of admiration for an artist who has been uncompromising in her approach to music, and this on the occasion of Mitchell turning 75 years old this year. ''This is very inspiring material to work with,'' says Mann. ''Joni's music stirs powerful emotions with its universal themes and timeless beauty.'' On 'Full Circle', Mann and her sidemen saxophonist Dino Govoni, guitarist Jay Azzolina, bassist, Dave Zinno, and drummer Marty Richards reimagine some of Mitchell's most popular tunes, holding onto the timeless melodies while overlaying it with an irrepressible swing feel, especially on songs like Big Yellow Taxi (from 1970's Ladies of the Canyon), Be Cool, and The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines. The haunting ''Blue'' (the title track from her epic 1971 disc) features jazz pianist/arranger Paul Nagel, and ''A Case of You'' is rendered in bossa nova style. ''I've tried to keep the original vibe while putting a jazz lens on it.'' For Mann, that's mission accomplished. ~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Debra-Mann-Circle-Music-Mitchell/dp/B07FCVJ3RG

Personnel: Debra Mann - vocalist, pianist, arranger;  Dino Govoni - tenor sax;  Steve DeConti - guitar groover;   Dave Zinno -  basst ,  Marty Richards - drum

Full Circle: The Music of Joni Mitchell