Hillary Capps - A Perfect Dozen

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:38
Size: 97.6 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[4:31] 1. Come Rain Or Come Shine
[3:09] 2. Lullaby Of Birdland
[4:30] 3. East Of The Sun
[4:54] 4. You Don't Know Me
[3:44] 5. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
[2:23] 6. One Note Samba
[3:08] 7. Unchain My Heart
[2:53] 8. Time After Time
[3:08] 9. They Can't Take That Away From Me
[2:17] 10. Twisted
[2:29] 11. At Last
[5:26] 12. The Nearness Of You

Ours is an age that reduces amateur vocalists to fanatical reality-television contestants. So it’s comforting to discover that there are still singers like Hillary Capps in the studio, honing their talents the time-honored way. A Perfect Dozen is the twentysomething jazz songstress and Underhill native’s solid debut release, a sturdy collection of 12 classic jazz vocal standards.

Despite her youth, Capps is already a veteran, and her savvy is obvious to the listener straight away, a capacity fashioned by an interesting combination of talent and pedigree. Since the age of 16, she has been performing with her father, a noted Vermont jazz artist, educator and studio engineer. He ably backs her on the record with the ensemble that bears his name, The Joe Capps Group.

Even veterans of the jazz stage will have to respect the younger Capps’ fearless song selections. Tom Jobin’s “One Note Samba” and Etta James’ “At Last” aren’t exactly campfire tunes. And they are certainly not for hobbyists, given their technical and emotional requirements. But Hillary Capps manages this challenge with impressive command of these and other classic selections. Her remarkably clean voice prevails delightfully over the skillful backing musicianship found throughout A Perfect Dozen. ~John Pritchard

A Perfect Dozen

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Hillary Capps - A Perfect Dozen

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:43
Size: 98,9 MB
Art: Front

(4:31)  1. Come Rain Or Come Shine
(3:10)  2. Lullaby Of Birdland
(4:30)  3. East Of The Sun
(4:54)  4. You Don't Know Me
(3:44)  5. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
(2:24)  6. One Note Samba
(3:08)  7. Unchain My Heart
(2:54)  8. Time After Time
(3:08)  9. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(2:18) 10. Twisted
(2:30) 11. At Last
(5:27) 12. The Nearness Of You

Hillary has always had a passion for music. Her Mother, being an artist, and her Father a musician, have greatly influenced her life as a performing artist. Hillary has been singing for as long as she can remember. There are even recordings of Hillary at four years old singing her own compositions such as “Puppies Are So Nice”. At a young age Hillary began writing songs and forming bands with friends. Throughout High School Hillary continued to pursue her career in music. As a freshman she began taking voice lessons, as a sophomore she released her debut self-titled CD, and as a senior she was named “class musician”. 

Her love for jazz also developed early in Hillary’s high school career. After her Father, both a jazz guitarist and recording artist, taught her the standard “Skylark”, she fell in love and began to develop her jazz repertoire. Since then, Hillary has performed across New England at weddings and various performance spaces. She has continued to write her own music and has collaborated with many talented musicians in both Vermont and New York City. Hillary currently attends Wagner College in New York City with a Voice Scholarship. She is very excited for the release of her first full-length Jazz CD! http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/hillarycapps

A Perfect Dozen

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Hillary Capps - Playlist

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 39:42
Size: 90.9 MB
Styles: Pop-jazz vocals
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:18] 1. More Today Than Yesterday
[3:18] 2. Sway
[3:07] 3. Walk On By
[3:58] 4. How Deep Is Your Love
[5:28] 5. Drown In My Own Tears
[4:00] 6. Nobody's Heart
[3:14] 7. Right As Rain
[2:54] 8. You Belong To Me
[3:30] 9. Revelry
[3:09] 10. You're Nearer
[2:43] 11. Across The Wide Ocean

Hillary Capps records her latest project “Playlist”. It’s a mix of pop, jazz, latin, even a bit of folk music. It’s a bunch of tunes she’s just been wanting to record. The band is great, consisting mostly of the University of Vermont Jazz Faculty. Tom Cleary on piano, Jeff Salisbury on drums, John Rivers on bass, Joe Capps on guitar, Ray Vega on trumpet, and guest artists Chris Peterman on tenor sax, Joey Somerville on trumpet, Amber deLaurentis sings the chorus on the hit “You belong to me” and Lena Capps sings on Drown in my own tears. Check it out!

Playlist

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