Catherine Russell - Alone Together - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2022 . Send For Me is a follow up to Russell's 2019 Alone Together, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and landed on the JazzWeek year-end radio chart as the #1 most played album. Send For Me features a baker's dozen of newly recorded tunes on her eighth album as a leader, meeting a simple exacting standard. InchSongs that inspire or touch me in some way. When I find a song I like, it haunts me until I learn it.Inch Her mission is finding songs that you might not have heard but deserve attention. Russell's deep connection to her chosen material is part of a calling. As the daughter of pioneering and legendary musicians, pianist/orchestra leader/composer/arranger Luis Russell, and bassist/guitarist/vocalist Carline Ray, Catherine Russell was born into jazz royalty. In culling material for her new album from the likes of Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Luis Russell, Betty Carter, Kay Starr, Joe Liggins, Earl King, Jack Teagarden, Helen Humes, Frank Sinatra, Dakota Staton, Henry Red Allen, and Louis Armstrong, the vocalist swims in familiar waters. She sings a language that comes naturally, furthering a profound legacy.

Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds ft. Catherine Russell - Cat & the Hounds - InchWith Catherine and I both having Caribbean roots and ties to Panama, the story of the Panama Limited had to make an appearance somewhere in this project. Add to that the fact that Luis Russell, Catherine's dad, was present on the original recording of this tune and that I am a scholar on Ada Brown, the tune's original vocalist, and you have the perfect storm for the blues.Inch

The duo of Catherine Sikora and Finola Merivale brings together saxophone with field recordings and electronics in a fluid, exploratory dialogue. Sikora's incisive, texturally rich playing unfolds against Merivale's carefully shaped sonic environments, where found sounds and subtle processing create shifting atmospheres. Their collaboration emphasizes deep listening and spontaneous interaction, blurring the line between instrumental gesture and environmental sound. The result is an intimate, immersive music that moves between stark minimalism and dense, evocative layers.