Kelly Brand - The Door - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Kelly Eisenhour is a jazz vocalist of exquisite style and technical accuracy. Her , Invitation, features her regular working quartet. She has toured as guest soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Keith Lockhart and also worked with Gladys Knight. Eisenhour is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and was the head of the vocal jazz program at Brigham Young University from 2005-2008. She currently teaches jazz and choirs at Green River Community College near Seattle. InchA superior jazz vocalists deserving of widespread popularity... a seductive voice that is at once cognac-smooth and espresso-rich...Inch - Christopher Loudon, JazzTimes.

Like the towering mounds of toxic waste from which it gets it's namesake, the music of Oklahoma City noise rock quartet Chat Pile is a suffocating, grotesque embodiment of the existential anguish that has defined the 21st Century. It figures that a band with this abrasive, unrelenting, and outlandish of a sound has stuck as strong of a chord as it has. Dread has replaced the American dream, and Chat Pile's music is a poignant reminder of that shift-a portrait of an American rock band molded by a society defined by it's cold and cruel power systems.Though very much on-brand with Chat Pile's signature flavor of cacophonous, sludgy noise rock, the band's shift to a global thematic focus on Cool World not only compliments the broader experimentations it employs with their songwriting but also how they dissect the album's core theme of violence. Melded into the band's twisted foundational sound are traces of other eclectic genre stylings, with examples of gazy, goth-tinged dirges to abrasive yet anthemic alt/indie-esque hooks and off-kilter metal grooves only scratching the surface of what can be heard in the album's ten tracks. Besides stylistically stretching the boundaries of the Chat Pile sound, Cool World is also the band's first record to have someone else handle mixing duties, with Ben Greenberg (Uniform) capturing and further amplifying the quartet's unmistakably outsider and folk-art edge.While Chat Pile's debut album was plenty disturbing with it's B-movie-inspired interpretation of a Inchreal American horror storyInch, what the band depicts on Cool World is unsettling not just from it's visceral noise rock onslaught, but from depicting how all sorts of atrocities are pretty much standard parts of modern existence. In film terms, think something like a Criterion arthouse film by way of schlocky grindhouse splatterfest undeniably gratuitous and thrilling in the m

Kelley Johnson sings the blues and swings deeply through feisty soulful arrangements by Geoffrey Keezer, Ingrid Jensen, John Hansen and many by Kelley herself, revealing why Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center recently selected Kelley as an ambassador to represent the heart and soul of American jazz in the Caribbean Basin and Central America. With her chocolate rich wistful sound and her top shelf band mates this group takes US inside the songs making new modern classic jazz by pairing InchWouldn't It Be LoverlyInch with Abbey Lincoln's InchLiving Room,Inch hypnotizing US with groove on InchThe Sweetest SoundsInch and seducing US with longing in the Gil Evans-like InchMoon River.Inch James Knapp's abstract blues InchHomeInch sizzles and haunts US with Johnson's own lyric.