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| Charley Harrison New CD Composer, arranger and conductor Charley Harrison is pleased to announce the production start of his new C3 Records CD, Keeping My Composure with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra. Special guest artists include vocalists Freddie Cole, Kurt Elling and Sara Gazarek. Instrumental soloists include Cedar Walton on piano and Bobby Broom on guitar. The eleven song CD of originals and standards will go into the studio on December 10th at the Chicago Recording Company. Release date is scheduled for February 16, 2006. Harrison is known for his multi-dimensional music that incorporates modern, classic swing, Latin and contemporary elements into his orchestral arrangements. Earlier in 2005, he garnered rave reviews for his adventurous interpretation of George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, which the Chicago Tribune described as, “...utterly unexpected, planting the piece firmly in the 21st Century.” Keeping My Composure will feature Freddie Cole, singing Southside Of Chicago, his first big band recording in over 20 years; vocalist Sara Gazarek making her debut with a jazz orchestra on Harrison's originals Recipe Of Romance and If You Were Mine; Kurt Elling on Jeannine; and pianist Cedar Walton on Lori's Dream, another Harrison original. Additional material includes Pure Imagination and Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars (Corcovado) with Chicago Jazz Orchestra vocalist Frieda Lee; and instrumental soloists that include Dan Trudell on B-3 organ, Brian Sjoredinga on tenor sax; and Bobby Broom and Charley Harrison on guitars. In addition to his duties as Associate Director of the eighteen-piece Chicago Jazz Orchestra, the Chicago area native and guitarist is a sought after film composer and was recently appointed Director of the UCLA Jazz Orchestra, in Los Angeles. He currently resides in Santa Clarita. Selections from Keeping My Composure will debut, in conjunction with the release of February 16, as part of a Chicago Jazz Orchestra concert at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at Northwestern University. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Jazz News :: home page |