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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. Album Tracks 1. Did I Remember 2. Send for Me 3. At the Swing Cats Ball 4. Make It Last 5. Going Back to New Orleans 6. If I Could Be with You 7. You Can Fly High 8. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) 9. In the Night 10. You Stepped Out of a Dream 11. Blue and Sentimental 12. Sticks and Stones 13. Million Dollar Smile
