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| Vocalist Vanessa Thomas Debut Release "Life Is Like A Song" - Available Now!  Artist Statement"I have always desperately needed music. And Music was there to heal the unspeakable trauma I experienced as a toddler, until my adoption as a young child. Music was there to give me the acceptance I craved in the small rural farming community I grew up in—where no faces looked like mine at all. Music remained there inside of me somewhere as an inexplicable tiny spark after I became an adult. Music was there as that tiny spark ignited into a flame of passion, when I thought I had lost everything good about life. Suddenly, I knew that I didn't simply love or need music, but music was my everything...my reason. When I sing the great jazz standards of those heroic black folk who have gone before me, I am deeply and passionately connected to them. Those beautiful souls performed these very songs back then, at a time when they must have needed music as much as I do now. Thank you to those who instinctively and lovingly gave me the music I needed, exactly when and how I needed it." - Vanessa Thomas Musicians: Vanessa Thomas, vocals Roger Wilder, piano Eric Hitt, bass John Kizilarmut, drums Matt Otto, tenor saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 3, 8, 10 & 12) Clint Ashlock, trumpet (track 3) Recorded August 24 & 26, 2022 at the Lied Center of Kansas Song Listing: 1. Cheek To Cheek (Irving Berlin) 2. At Last (Mack Gordon/Harry Warren) 3. Every Day I Have The Blues (Memphis Slim) 4. Smile(CharlieChaplin/GeoffreyParsons/JohnTurner) 5. Summertime(GeorgeGershwin/IraGershwin/DuBoseHeyward) 6. Creole Love Call (Duke Ellington) 7. I'm Beginning To See The Light (Duke Ellington/Don George/Johnny Hodges/Harry James) 8. Come Sunday (Duke Ellington) 9. Orange Colored Sky (Milton Delugg/William Stein) 10. Tenderly (Walter Gross/Jack Lawrence) 11. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Duke Ellington/Irving Mills/Henry Nemo/John Redmond) 12. Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael/Mitchell Parish) 13. Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Bob Crewe/Bob Gaudio) All arrangements by Roger Wilder Produced by the University of Kansas Lied Center write your comments about the article :: © 2023 Jazz News :: home page |