Terra Hazelton Trio - That's All

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:13
Size: 122,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:08)  1. That's All (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(2:59)  2. Down With Love (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(4:03)  3. The Lure of Little Voices (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(3:49)  4. This Time the Dream's On Me (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(4:17)  5. Am I Blue? (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(2:44)  6. You're Driving Me Crazy (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(4:24)  7. Solitude (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(4:58)  8. You Always Hurt the One You Love (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(4:30)  9. Keeping You In Mind (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(2:47) 10. You Brought a New Kind of Love To Me (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(4:09) 11. I'm Confessing (that I love you) [feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor]
(4:26) 12. Gettin' Some Fun Out of Life (feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor)
(4:51) 13. I'm Confessing (that I love you) [feat. Nathan Hiltz & Jordan O'Connor] [alternate take]

Joy is the first word that comes to mind when Terra Hazelton sings. A popular and wonderful performer on the Toronto jazz scene, Hazelton beams with happiness when she performs. Now, she has released her third album featuring jazz classics for which she is known and new material as well including a lovely jazz ballad setting of Canadian poet Robert Service’s “The Lure of Little Voices” composed by Jeff Gladstone, a friend of hers she has known since childhood.  Recorded live off the floor with Jordan O’Connor on bass and Nathan Hiltz on guitar and ukulele, “That’s All” features classics by the team of Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, by Duke Ellington and the ballad “Keeping You in Mind” by Mary Margaret O’Hara. O’Connor also produced, recorded and mixed the album.Born in British Colombia and raised mostly in Calgary, Hazelton is also a radio personality and an actress who has been nominated for a Genie Award.

Her career began in theatre and comedy improv. She also wrote music and formed her own rock band. Blues great Jeff Healey heard her perform at a country jam called the Melody Ranch at the Brunswick House. Although Healey was renowned as a rock performer, his first love was traditional jazz. He was opening a night club and planned to perform trumpet and guitar on Saturday matinees with his band the Jazz Wizards. “Jeff asked to meet me,” Hazelton said with a smile, “and courted me … musically. Then, he just called me one day and said `Be in Fredericton.’ He got me out of where I was, gave me a job and paid me a lot of money.” Healey also produced her debut CD “Anybody’s Baby” and played on most of the tracks. Terra toured with him as his group’s featured vocalist until his untimely death in 2008. Healey also passed on a personal habit to Terra. 

He passionately collected jazz on 78s and had a collection of approximately 50,000 in his house. Terra’s collection now numbers 3,000. “I’ve built my own shelves,” she laughed. “Everyone in the band became a record collector.” “Gimme Whatcha Got,” her second CD, was released in 2009. Featuring favorite jazz and blues material of hers, the album was produced by veteran John Sheard and features many Canadian jazz luminaries including George Koller, Michael Kaeshammer, William Sperandei, Drew Jurecka and special guests Alex Pangman, Russell DeCarle and the Polyjesters. Today, Hazelton performs frequently in Toronto with various ensembles, most notably The Hogtown Syncopators. They perform most Fridays at The Rex Hotel on Queen Street West from 4 to 6 p.m. She also has been an occasional guest host on Jazz FM 91 and, for a period, had a program called “Timeless” celebrating classic compositions from the 1920s, ‘30s and ‘40s from her own collection.  http://www.songandscript.ca/index.php?option=com_k2&view=ite

That's All

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Terra Hazelton - Gimme Whatcha Got

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2009
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:57
Size: 113,8 MB
Art: Front

(3:50)  1. Coffee In The Morning
(4:59)  2. Everything I've Got Belongs To You
(5:19)  3. If I Had You
(3:02)  4. If I Can't Sell It
(3:26)  5. Gotta Gimme Whatcha Got
(3:58)  6. What Are You Doing New Years Eve?
(2:44)  7. Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong
(4:34)  8. Smoking My Sad Cigarette
(3:40)  9. I Like It Cause' I Love It
(4:02) 10. Two Sleepy People
(4:14) 11. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
(2:25) 12. I'm An Old Cowhand
(1:37) 13. Just Squeeze Me

With her sophomore album,  “Gimme Whatcha Got” , Terra Hazelton pays  tribute to the traditional jazz and gut-bucket blues that she came to love,  under the guidance of her mentor, the late legendary guitarist and music historian Jeff Healey (who also produced and was featured on  her 2004 debut “Anybody’s Baby”).This exciting new release also paints a portrait of a singer who has very much come into her own, supported by a veritable who’s who of Canadian talent;  Michael Kaeshammer, Alex Pangman, country star Russel De Carle and the Valleau Brothers (much loved front-men for the Polyjesters). Hazelton worked closely with producer John Sheard, crafting an album that expresses her own musical journey of the last five years. The result is an album which showcases her distinctive voice, innate musicality and her ability as a born storyteller. With “Gimme Whatcha Got”, Hazelton has emerged as one of Canada’s most versatile and engaging vocalists.  http://www.terrahazelton.com/music/albums/

Gimme Whatcha Got

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Terra Hazelton - Anybody's Baby

Styles: Jazz, Vocal
Year: 2004
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 67:33
Size: 160,4 MB
Art: Front

(3:41)  1. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(3:43)  2. Sugar Blues (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(5:13)  3. Anybody's Baby (Feat. Jeff Healey)
(0:25)  4. Laughter Has Vitamin A, B, & D (Feat. Jeff Healey)
(3:41)  5. On Revival Day (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(4:27)  6. Let's Do It (Feat. Jeff Healey - Marty Grosz - Dan Levinson - Vince Giordano)
(4:54)  7. Take It Right Back (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(3:11)  8. Now & Then (Feat. Chris Gale - William Sperandei)
(6:28)  9. Long John Blues (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(3:15) 10. Ain't He Sweet? (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(5:11) 11. I'm Just A Lucky So & So (Feat. Chris Gale - William Sperandei)
(4:06) 12. Was That The Human Thing To Do? (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(4:56) 13. The Spinach Song (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(5:00) 14. The Gentleman Is A Dope (Feat. Waylen Miki - Clinton Ryder)
(3:18) 15. Sunday (Feat. Jeff Healey's Jazz Wizards)
(3:28) 16. Long As I'm Movin' (Feat. Jeff Healey - Dave Murphy - Al Webster - Alec Fraser)
(2:26) 17. What Do I Care For The Moon?

Originally from B.C., Terra grew up mostly in Calgary. Terra became involved in professional theatre and comedy at the ripe age of 14, studying with Keith Johnstone (Theatresports™)  and Dennis Cahill at the Internationally acclaimed Loose Moose Theatre Company.“The Loose Moose Theatre Co. gave me all the tools I need to be a versatile performer,” she says. “Having the opportunity to start studying there at 14 allowed me to grow not only as an actor and improvisor but also as a human being.  Fellow improvisor and acclaimed Canadian actress Rebecca Northan once told me “Live life like you improvise take risks”.  

That advice stuck with me from the start.”  By age 16, she was teaching improvisation, performing regularly in kids’ shows, improv shows, and experimental theatre.  At 18, she enrolled in the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York City, with hopes of pursuing a career on Broadway. At 20 Hazelton moved to Toronto in pursuit of a career in improv and theatre.  One night she was handed a guitar and asked to fulfill the show’s musical component by writing and performing three funny songs. Three chords later, she was on a career path she had never anticipated. Terra moved from performing silly songs in a cabaret setting to forming her own band, leaning towards being a rock chick extraordinaire. She began sitting in with the long-running Melody Ranch afternoon matinee at the Brunswick House in Toronto, where famed singer/guitarist Jeff Healey happened to hear her sing one lucky Saturday. Healey himself was moving into new musical territory after opening a night club and following his love of traditional jazz with his own Saturday matinée band, the Jazz Wizards, with whom he played trumpet as well as guitar.  

He hired Terra to be the group’s permanent featured vocalist which gave her the opportunity to tour nationally and promote her debut record “Anybody’s Baby” (Healeyophonic, 2004) which Healey produced himself and plays on most tracks. Now a staple on the Toronto Jazz Scene, Terra Hazelton leads her own band, ‘Terra Hazelton & Her Easy Answers’, and is also a member of other notable ensembles. These include The Hogtown Syncopators where she sings and plays snare drum along with violinist Drew Jurecka, bassist James Thomson, guitarist Jay Danley and pianist Richard Whiteman.  The Hogtown Syncopatorsare the only band that can be found every week at Toronto’s premier jazz venue, The Rex, appearing Fridays from 4-6pm.  You can also catch Terra singing with the fabulous Royal Jelly Orchestra of Jaymz Bee (Jazz.Fm) fame, and with the 10-Piece Jivebombers featuring Alex Dean and Chuck Jackson.  In February of 2009, Terra joined and toured with with Juno Award winner (2008) Brandi Disterheft’s band.  The tour was across Canada including up to the glorious Yukon;  Terra was pleased to tour more with Brandi in the summer of 2009, hitting just about every major Jazz Festival across Canada, including opening for Dave Brubeck in Toronto. More Bio ~ http://www.terrahazelton.com/bio/

Anybody's Baby

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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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