Kate Schutt - No Love Lost

Styles: Vocal, Guitar
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:54
Size: 107,8 MB
Art: Front

(4:30)  1. How Much In Love
(3:27)  2. Wrecking Ball
(4:37)  3. Mary
(5:19)  4. Peter Please
(4:35)  5. Raining
(4:18)  6. Calamity
(3:51)  7. I'm Yours
(3:18)  8. Two Halves
(4:48)  9. The Moon Got Broken
(4:23) 10. The Young
(3:44) 11. Glamorous Life

No Love Lost is an album from singer/songwriter/guitarist Kate Schutt, a U.S citizen living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada since 2005 Schutt offers a variety of moods, and her writing is always sharp regarding the state of her heart, via some tunes of love some unrequited and some rather active. The overall mood of the album echoes the work of vocalist Madeleine Peyroux, who has achieved enormous success, as well as a drop of Norah Jones insofar as arrangement and delivery. The opening, low-key "How Much in Love" sports minimal accompaniment Schutt's guitar backed by viola and cello. The mood changes drastically on the following "Wrecking Ball," moving into a shuffle beat utilized often by Peyroux, and very effectively accompanied by harmonicist Paul Reddick and trumpeter Patrick Boyle, on one of several appearances. The important addition of Boyle, as well as guitarist Duane Andrews' Django Reinhardt-like vibe, fully adds to this music.  "Peter Please" is Schutt's first "love lost" vehicle, with direct lyrics that are right on the mark. "I'm Yours" pairs Schutt with blues singer Toni Lynn Washington for a minimalist but upbeat performance. One highlight of this album is the concluding cover of Sheila E.'s 1984 dance floor hit, "The Glamorous Life." This heated tune, a popular club classic of the pre-hip-hop era, is, in a way a match for the talented original music of vocalist/timbalist Escovedo. What Schutt does here is to raise the shuffle beat a bit more to mid-tempo, and insinuate the lyrics which normally wouldn't be heard over the din of the dance floor to make them into a sensuous lesson to women, young and old a most impressive musical milestone. Which is a good summation of No Love Lost. A coda to the closing track might be to imagine the Sheila E. original being played at full strength at a local disco, while Schutt's version is spun at the back corner tables on the upper floor for romantic couples. ~ Michael P.Gladstone https://www.allaboutjazz.com/no-love-lost-kate-schutt-artistshare-review-by-michael-p-gladstone.php

Personnel: Kate Schutt: 8-string guitar/bass hybrid, electric guitar, bass, vocals; Dave Jamrog: drums; Duane Andrews: acoustic guitar; Patrick Boyle: trumpet; Mark Shilansky: piano; Toni Lynn Washington: backup vocals; Paul Reddick: harmonica (2); Tomasin: rhyme; Jeff Louie: violin; Cloe Kline: viola; Nat Barrett: cello; Adrian Ross: trumpet (10).

No Love Lost

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Kate Schutt - Telephone Game

Styles: Vocal, Guitar
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:16
Size: 136,6 MB
Art: Front

(5:01)  1. Take Everything
(4:10)  2. Blackout
(6:57)  3. Open Window
(3:40)  4. Take Me With You
(8:12)  5. Who is Young, Who is Naive?
(3:56)  6. If Spring Comes Now
(4:02)  7. Fake ID
(4:57)  8. You Can Have the Sky
(6:07)  9. Our Legs Are Burning
(3:56) 10. We All Fall Down
(2:49) 11. The Actress
(5:21) 12. Love's Not Logical

Kate Schutt is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer living in New York City. Raised in Chadds Ford, PA, Kate was schooled in Boston, both in Harvard’s English department, where she studied the influence of jazz on modern poetry, and at Berklee College of Music, where she studied jazz guitar. A constant collaborator, Kate has worked with John Ellis (Charlie Hunter), Terri Lyne Carrington (Herbie Hancock), and Viktor Krauss (Lyle Lovett, Bill Frisell), to name only a few. In 2007 & 2009 Kate was the John Lennon Songwriting Contest Winner in the Jazz Category and received the ASCAP Plus Awards for Jazz Composition from 2006- 2009. https://www.kateschutt.com/about/

Personnel:  Kate — electric guitar, vocals;  Terri Lyne Carrington — drums;  Orrin Evans — piano;  Duane Andrews — acoustic guitar;  Marc Rogers — bass;  Chris Brown — B3, clavinet, Wurlitzer;  Damian Erskine — bass on tracks 3, 5;  Denis Keldie — accordions on track 5;  Andrea Zonn — viola on track 6;  John Ellis — saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet;  Alan Ferber — trombones;  Shane Endsley — trumpet, flugelhorn;  Grégoire Maret — harmonica

Telephone Game

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