Kathleen Holeman - Live At Corbin Theater

Size: 162,0 MB
Time: 69:27
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Jazz/Blues Vocals
Art: Front

01. I've Got The World On A String (Live) (3:38)
02. Black Coffee (Live) (6:51)
03. Midnight Sun (Live) (7:16)
04. Almost Like Being In Love (Live) (4:40)
05. You Must Believe In Spring (Live) (4:20)
06. Since I Fell For You (Live) (6:44)
07. It's Alright With Me (Live) (5:22)
08. Skylark (Live) (5:17)
09. Stormy Monday (Live) (8:30)
10. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (Live) (4:12)
11. Detour Ahead (Live) (5:47)
12. Bye Bye Blackbird (Live) (6:45)

Holeman is known for performing with artists all over the Midwest and South. Locally she has performed with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra. She currently co-directs the St. Joseph Big Band and leads smaller combos in clubs, restaurants and private venues. She has been a judge at several jazz competitions, including the Iowa Vocal Jazz Championship. She’s also the director of vocal jazz and jazz piano at Missouri Western State University.

Her band will include guitarist Rod Fleeman, who developed a love for jazz while a freshman at Southwest High School in Kansas City. After high school Fleeman attended the University of Utah and studied jazz guitar under Dr. William Fowler. Fleeman has taught jazz guitar at Missouri Western State College and is currently on staff at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Al Wiley has played the drums for more than 50 years. He’s entertained at the Kansas City Jazz Festival, the 18th and Vine Festival, Parkville Day’s Jazz Festival and more. He also subs at the Kansas City Symphony from time to time.

James Albright will play bass. Originally from Nebraska, he came to Kansas City in 1992. He plays classical bass and serves as principal with the Northland Symphony and Liberty Symphony. He teaches bass at his private studio and at William Jewell College.

Walter Bryant will play keyboards. His Northland connections include serving as musical director for Worlds of Fun. He also serves as music director at Platte Woods United Methodist Church.

Doug Talley plays reeds. He is an Elmer saxophone artist and clinician who has performed with jazz legends. He’s recorded with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra and his own works.

Live At Corbin Theater

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Kathleen Holeman - I'm All Smiles

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:11
Size: 147,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:07)  1. I'm All Smiles
(5:01)  2. Love Dance
(3:48)  3. In The Still Of The Night
(5:21)  4. Why Did I Choose You?
(3:53)  5. Your Smiling Face
(8:57)  6. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
(3:51)  7. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
(4:31)  8. Smile
(4:56)  9. Lush Life
(5:31) 10. Smile All The While
(4:49) 11. Close Enough For Love
(4:19) 12. Autumn Nocturne
(5:00) 13. The Bare Necessities

Kathleen Holeman is a chameleon, able to make her voice be exactly what she wants on any song she wants, and she scats like the pro she is. Jazz standards, vintage swing,blues and pop, ballads and fast romps, relaxing to hot.she does it. 

"Kathleen Holeman is the real deal, a singer who can sing." I had the pleasure of writing those words for a rave I penned for the Topeka Capital-Journal titled "KC Jazz Diva Soars at Topeka Jazz Workshop." I therefore come to the happy task of writing these notes as a partisan. I am a devoted Kathleen Holeman fan!
Since first meeting Kathleen several years ago in preparing notes for her debut album, the acclaimed Don't You Wonder?, I've had the joy -- as countless other Kansas City area jazz fans have had -- of watching her continue to grow. With I'm All Smiles the happy beat goes on. In fact, there's a palpably positive feeling that's just plain life-affirming. In Kathleen's hands, even Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" exudes good cheer.

"Life is wonderful and I feel so blessed to be able to share these feelings and sounds with so many people," the St. Joseph, Missouri, native told me recently. Speaking of sharing, Kathleen also gives full credit to her fellow musicians. "The guys helped me pick some of the tunes, and I feel that this is their album as much as its mine," Kathleen stressed. "Most of our small group arrangements are a collective effort and it was great fun to see how the songs would turn out!" Now, we get to share that "fun." More.... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/holeman2

I'm All Smiles

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