Jeff Gladstone - Hell Of A Girl

Styles: Rock And Swing
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:21
Size: 86,1 MB
Art: Front

(1:37)  1. In Vein (feat. Rachel Pomedli)
(2:23)  2. Lazy Susan (feat. Rebecca Hennessy & Shawn Nykwist)
(1:43)  3. One Little Accident Away
(4:04)  4. Lionhearted (feat. Sly Juhas, Tim Hamel, Neil MacIntosh & Sophia Perlman)
(3:41)  5. Good to You (feat. Terra Hazelton, Jay Danley, Sly Juhas, Sophia Perlman, Tim Hamel & Nathan Hiltz)
(3:49)  6. Hell of a Girl (feat. Jay Danley, Nathan Hiltz, Terra Hazelton, Sky Juhas & Sophia Perlman)
(5:44)  7. There May Be a Golden Distance (feat. Jay Danley)
(4:20)  8. Not Your Girlfriend (feat. Jay Danley & Drew Jurecka)
(3:38)  9. Two Birds (feat. Richard Whiteman)
(3:24) 10. My Big Mouth (feat. Nathan Hiltz, Neil MacIntosh & James Thomson)
(2:53) 11. Weatherman (feat. Drew Jurecka, Rebecca Hennessy & James Thomson)

Jeff Gladstone met Terra Hazelton at the Loose Moose Theatre Company in Calgary in 1995. They spent 5 years there, working and studying with Keith Johnstone, performing improv, creating kids shows, and developing a musical improv format called Jamprov. Since then, Hazelton has established herself as one of the top jazz singers in Canada, and Gladstone has built a career as an actor and improviser in Vancouver. Hazelton has made occasional forays into acting (Genie award nomination for FUBAR II) and Gladstone has continued to write music; over 250 original songs, including sound design and musical direction for theatre. Recently Gladstone wrote a song based on a poem by Robert Service, The Lure of Little Voices, which made it on Hazelton’s recent CD That’s All. As a thank-you, Hazelton offered to record a demo of Gladstone’s songs. Work began in 2012 in Hazelton’s apartment with just a microphone, a guitar and a rain storm.

Hazelton started inviting some of her friends and collaborators from her various bands. Musicians like Drew Jurecka, Sly Juhas, Nathan Hiltz, and the entire line-up from The Hogtown Syncopators, nearly all of which have won Juno awards. Hazelton invited each of them because of specific skills she thought would add to each track. In true Loose Moose fashion, the musicians were encouraged to improvise. The collaborative nature of Hell of a Girl continued, as Neil MacIntosh mixed the tracks adding additional percussion, and finally Jordon O’Connor (engineer behind That’s All) mastered the final recordings with Hazelton. Rehearsing Two Birds with Richard Whiteman “With Hell of a Girl, we feel we are on our way to creating a unique and vital example of theatrical songwriting, and that it may help two Canadian artists expand their practice and offer their talents in new ways to the music community, and its growing audience.”  http://jeffgladstone.ca/hell-of-a-girl/hell-of-a-girl-history/

Personnel: Jeff Gladstone: Upright Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals; Terra Hazelton: Vocals, Arrangements; Rachel Pomedli: Cello; Tim Hamel: Trumpet; Sly Juhas: Drums; Neil MacIntosh: Drums; Nathan Hiltz: Electric Guitar; Jay Danley: Acoustic Guitar, Upright Bass, Vocals; Sophia Perlman: Vocals and BG Arrangements; Drew Jurecka: Violin, Clarinet; James Thomson: Electric Bass; Richard Whiteman: Baby Grand Piano, Upright Bass; Rebecca Hennessy: Accordion; Shawn Nykwist: Soprano Saxophone

Hell Of A Girl

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