Linda Kosut - Life Is But A Dream

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2003
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:12
Size: 103,5 MB
Art: Front

(2:47)  1. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
(4:02)  2. Walking In Memphis
(2:56)  3. Peel Me a Grape
(3:53)  4. Skylark
(3:20)  5. Teach Me Tonight
(4:03)  6. Come To My House
(4:23)  7. My Romance
(2:10)  8. If I Were A Bell
(3:23)  9. What You'd Call A Dream
(3:30) 10. Dat Dere
(4:51) 11. Factory/The Mason - Medley
(4:48) 12. Boats Against The Current

Linda Kosut, a San Francisco-based vocalist, is known for her unique stylings of jazz standards and pop tunes. She is a moving and entertaining performer who brings authentic passion and interpretative skill to lyrics and the "story" song. She has performed in many of San Francisco's nightclubs including the renowned Empire Plush Room, Jazz at Pearl's, Anna's Jazz Island, etc. Her tours have included stops at the Gardenia and Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Chicago's Davenport's and New York's Triad, Encore and Reprise Room at Dillon's. Linda is a founder of the San Francisco vocal trio The Kitchenettes and she teaches performance technique. Linda is a 1990 Fellow of the Cabaret Symposium of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and a former student of New York's Actors' Institute. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kosut

Life Is But A Dream

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Linda Kosut - Easy Come, Easy Go: The Music Of Johnny Green

Size: 145,1 MB
Time: 61:45
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Jazz Vocals
Art: Front

01. The Turntable Song (2:00)
02. Hello My Lover, Goodbye (3:38)
03. I Cover The Waterfront (5:21)
04. Foolish Baby (3:34)
05. There's A Ring Around The Moon (4:00)
06. Betty Boop (2:32)
07. Am I In Another World (4:41)
08. I Wanna Be Loved (3:44)
09. You Wanna Keep Your Baby Looking Right (3:51)
10. I'm Yours (3:49)
11. Easy Come, Easy Go (4:33)
12. I Love A Mystery (2:30)
13. Candlelight (2:15)
14. Derry Down Dilly (3:40)
15. Body And Soul (5:06)
16. Gonna Fall In Love With You (3:22)
17. Never 'til Now/The Song Of Raintree County (3:01)

Award winning jazz and cabaret performer Linda Kosut’s new release “Easy Come, Easy Go: The Music of Johnny Green,” is a tribute to the great composer and music director.”

Kosut’s appearance coincides with the release of her third CD, “Easy Come, Easy Go: The Music of Johnny Green,” on the LML Music Label. Produced and arranged by Mike Greensill, the CD represents a 3 year research project into the life and music of John W. Green, composer of the number one song on the Jazz Standards charts, “Body and Soul.” Performed by singers from Gertrude Lawrence to Tony Bennet & Amy Winehouse, “Body and Soul” has remained as the most recorded jazz song for over 50 years. Linda will be accompanied by Greensill on piano, Tom Shader on bass, Alan Hall on drums, and Jeremy Cohen on violin.

Linda Kosut, Backstage Magazine’s Bistro/BMI award winner, has been performing to steady acclaim on the cabaret and jazz scenes of New York and the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. The Los Angeles Times wrote of her Oscar Brown tribute: “She deserved a far longer run….there was versatility in her interpretations … her warm, dark sound and articulate theatrically trained phrasing…an illuminating view into the complex byways of Brown’s imagination.”

A native New Yorker, Kosut has been living in San Francisco for more than twenty years. She is a graduate of CCNY and studied musical theater and cabaret. She has appeared in clubs in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago; and in San Francisco Bay Area jazz & cabaret venues. She has played at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, Davenport’s in Chicago, in San Francisco at the Empire Plush Room, The Purple Onion, the Octavia Lounge, Anna’s Jazz Island, and the Rrazz Room, as well as The Metropolitan Room, The Triad and Don’t Tell Mama in New York.

Now Kosut brings “Easy Come, Easy Go,” her tribute to the great composer Johnny Green, to Feinstein’s. Green was an inspirational and influential composer, Hollywood musical arranger and conductor who died in 1989. He won five Oscars for his soundtracks for movies. “I was so happy to discover Johnny’s music,” says Kosut. “My goal for this project was to bring more attention to his larger body of work. His ballads, and jazz standards like “I Cover the Waterfront” are still sung today and I wanted to introduce his other great songs to new audiences.”

Easy Come, Easy Go

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Linda Kosut - Long As You're Living

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:45
Size: 113,2 MB
Art: Front

(2:49)  1. A Tree and Me
(3:02)  2. Mr. Kicks
(3:55)  3. Hazel's Hips
(3:24)  4. Summer in the City
(3:46)  5. A Column of Birds
(6:17)  6. 'Round Midnight & The Beach
(3:25)  7. Brother, Where Are You?
(1:39)  8. Bid 'Em In
(2:30)  9. The Call of the City
(2:15) 10. The Snake
(3:54) 11. Old Lovers' Song
(3:42) 12. Humdrum Blues
(3:36) 13. Tower of Time
(3:26) 14. Long As You're Living

Singer Linda Kosut has admired the music of Oscar Brown Jr. from the time she first heard it in the 60s. In 2006, she turned his songs into a tribute on stage. Long As You're Living - The Songs & Poetry of Oscar Brown Jr. has been performed in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. Kosut has pulled some of the songs from Brown's repertoire for this CD. She has her own style, she never seeks to imitate or pay cloying tribute to him. She gives Brown's songs a fresh slant, which by and large makes this a pleasure to listen to. 

Kosut has selected a wide range of songs that showcase her vocal ability. She is bang in the groove on "Bid 'Em In evocating the charged atmosphere of a slave auction which she sings a capella. Brown's words focused not only on social issues but also on observations of everyday life. "Hazel's Hips gets its first undulation from Max Perkoff's piano. Kosut is slinky and sly in unraveling the blues. Perkoff returns for an appropriately greasy solo on the trombone. The slow burn of the blues and the saucy lyrics make this salivating.  A Tree and Me is awash in warmth. Kosut plumbs the depth of the emotion and comes up with a winning performance. "Mr. Kicks is quite a different bag. Upbeat and joyous, the song gives Kosut an opportunity to show her mettle as a jazz singer. ~ Jerry D’Souza   http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26833#.UwY-y4VQE9c

Personnel: Linda Kosut: vocals;  Max Perkoff: piano, trombone;  Tom Shader: bass;  Paul van Wageningen: percussion.

Long As You're Living

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