Time: 47:01
Size: 107.6 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2010
Art: Front
[4:36] 1. Estando Aqui
[4:39] 2. Stella By Sunlight
[4:27] 3. Don't Work Anymore
[6:37] 4. Summertime
[4:18] 5. Superstition
[3:10] 6. Doggone Blues
[6:17] 7. I Feel The Heat
[4:25] 8. Made For Love
[5:07] 9. Days Like These
[3:21] 10. Bye Bye Blackbird
Patty Cronheim’s determination comes wrapped in a petite five-foot-two-inch package of toughness, humor and a sense of wonder. Since she was a little girl, she has had music in her bones. It took her a few years to shape it into the sounds she heard inside and put a band together. Now, she’s getting her music out into the world.
Patty grew up on the New Jersey shore. When she was eight, she was on an outing in the family car with her parents, brother and two sisters. They were singing together, as they often did. To the surprise of her mother and father, she broke into harmony. It had never happened before. She’s not sure where it came from. “My dad practically stopped the car,” she said. “They turned around and it was, ‘Oh, my god, what are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m just singing.’ To them, it was like I’d hung the moon. I just did it.”
Just doing it seems to be the Cronheim way. She just goes down to the Jersey shore to pursue a favorite pastime of her childhood, swimming in the Atlantic. The bigger the waves, the better, even if they are powered by a storm. Patty has negotiated a significant amount of chop. She is past it and she’s mellow—in her dynamic way. She put hard work and study into developing her singing career amidst demanding circumstances. She has a masters degree in science from Columbia University, in nutrition and exercise physiology. A divorced mother, she raised two children alone while working as an eating disorder therapist and continuing to write music. “It’s simpler now,” she said, “all good.” The goodness includes her happy new marriage, “to a nice, calm guy.”
Patty’s composing grew out of the piano study she began as a girl. It got a big shot of inspiration in the 1970s when she belonged to one of those mail-order record clubs that relentlessly kept LPs coming unless you returned the “don’t send” card. She listened to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Muddy Waters, whoever showed up in the Cronheim mailbox. ~Doug Ramsey
Patty grew up on the New Jersey shore. When she was eight, she was on an outing in the family car with her parents, brother and two sisters. They were singing together, as they often did. To the surprise of her mother and father, she broke into harmony. It had never happened before. She’s not sure where it came from. “My dad practically stopped the car,” she said. “They turned around and it was, ‘Oh, my god, what are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m just singing.’ To them, it was like I’d hung the moon. I just did it.”
Just doing it seems to be the Cronheim way. She just goes down to the Jersey shore to pursue a favorite pastime of her childhood, swimming in the Atlantic. The bigger the waves, the better, even if they are powered by a storm. Patty has negotiated a significant amount of chop. She is past it and she’s mellow—in her dynamic way. She put hard work and study into developing her singing career amidst demanding circumstances. She has a masters degree in science from Columbia University, in nutrition and exercise physiology. A divorced mother, she raised two children alone while working as an eating disorder therapist and continuing to write music. “It’s simpler now,” she said, “all good.” The goodness includes her happy new marriage, “to a nice, calm guy.”
Patty’s composing grew out of the piano study she began as a girl. It got a big shot of inspiration in the 1970s when she belonged to one of those mail-order record clubs that relentlessly kept LPs coming unless you returned the “don’t send” card. She listened to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Muddy Waters, whoever showed up in the Cronheim mailbox. ~Doug Ramsey
Days Like These