Laura Perrudin - Tempus - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mercury nominated trumpet player and composer Laura Jurd releases second solo album Rites & Revelations. Heavily influenced by folk music and pulled toward Celtic traditional music, Laura draws on her English and Scottish roots and is blessed with the collaborative powers of Martin Green & Ultan O'Brien. The album culminates a journey of exploration for Laura, rich with renaissance song, earthy drones, lilting jigs and highly ornamented ballads, Rites & Revelations is a personal renaissance. Album Tracks 1. Offering 2. Bide Your Time 3. What Are You Running Towards? 4. You Again 5. Lighter & Brighter 6. Life 7. Praying Mantis 8. Back to Life 9. St James Infirmary 10. Step Up to the Altar

New York City-based jazz singer Laura Anglade was born in the south of France and raised in Connecticut. She spent several years living in Canada, where she pursued her studies in translation, before relocating to New York City to pursue a full-time career in music. Her style recalls vocal jazz stars like Samara Joy, Diana Krall, and Stella Cole, and legends like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughan and Anita O'Day.This deluxe digipak CD edition of her most recent album, 'Get Out of Town', features the previously unreleased tracks InchThe Shadow of Your Smile,Inch (Johnny Mandel/Paul Francis Webster), InchYou Turned the Tables on Me,Inch (Louis Alter/Sidney D. Mitchell) and InchL'Étang,Inch (Paul Misraki). Album Tracks 1. April in Paris 2. A New Day, a New Life, a New Love 3. Manhattan 4. I Want to Be Loved 5. I Don't Mind 6. This Can't Be Love 7. Gentleman Friend 8. Stairway to the Stars 9. You Hit the Spot 10. I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life 11. Get Out of Town 12. You Turned the Tables on Me 13. The Shadow of Your Smile 14. L'étang

Album Tracks 1. Opening Out 2. Invocation 3. A Call to Water 4. The Song That I Came to Sing 5. Threshold Party 6. Turning in