Sisters of Jazz - Sisters of Jazz - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. We All Been There 2. Without a Doubt 3. This Old Hand 4. When Love Leaves the Room 5. Callin' All You Lonely Hearts

THE SISTERING, four powerhouse women (with awards and accolades too numerous to mention) come together to share their version of InchsisteringInch through sound vibration, words of wisdom and melodic dance. They offer an elegant and generous recording that will make you feel things you may not be expecting. Through their stories of love, loss and life lessons, they present raw emotion with Inchin your faceInch truth and honesty. InchThe SisteringInch has something for everyone.InchTerri Lyne Carrington (from the liner notes)Just as the construction term InchsisteringInch involves strengthening a beam by adding another alongside it, fastening them together, these four vocal powerhouses have joined forces to create a new musical collective, The Sistering. All North Carolina-based, these longtime friends-Lois Deloatch, Nnenna Freelon, Lenora Zenzalai Helm, and Kate McGarry-have collaborated on their forthcoming album, The Sistering. The 12-track recording features original compositions that blend jazz, ballads, gospel, and folk, reflecting on themes of life, family, and loss.For each artist, this collaboration has been a deeply meaningful experience. Deloatch describes the project as Inchart, life, truth, and clarity,Inch a coming together of Inchreal friendsInch to Inchwrite and sing, and remember and dream and celebrate each other.Inch Freelon calls it Inchthe most soul satisfying artistic connectionInch she's had in a long time, noting that the Inchcreative frictionInch challenges each artist while pushing, pulling, and holding them up. Helm feels The Sistering has helped her embrace sisterhood in a new way, and grow as a creative woman. McGarry adds that the project has been a Inchcontainer of creativity, of laughter, of support and expansion, unlike anything I've ever experienced.Inch She says it started with friends around good food and wine, but quickly evolved in

Nicole Cabell and Alyson Cambridge, acclaimed sopranos and close friends, record together for the first time on an album of opera duets by Mozart, Offenbach, Humperdinck, and Delibes and specially commissioned duet arrangements of classical songs, folk tunes, and African-American spirituals. Cabell, 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, is Incha faultlessly gleaming sopranoInch (Financial Times). Cambridge is Inchradiant, vocally assured... and artistically imaginativeInch (Washington Post), known for her Inchrevelatory, sensual, smoky readingsInch (Opera News). Joining them in the InchSoave sia il ventoInch trio from Mozart's Così fan tutte is the Inchmellow-voiced and charismaticInch (New York Times) baritone Will Liverman. They're accompanied on their Cedille debut by the Lake Forest Symphony under 2015 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award winner Vladimir Kulenovic. Inspired by opera stars Kathleen Battle & Jessye Norman's spirituals recording from the early 1990s, the sopranos describe their album as a Inchdream projectInch that's Inchuniquely us,Inch reflecting their multi-ethnic heritages and showcasing songs that profoundly influenced them both. Composer-arranger Joe Clark, whose music has been performed by Renee Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, and jazz singer Kurt Elling, among other classical, jazz, and pop artists, created arrangements expressly for Cabell and Cambridge's distinctive voices. Album Tracks 1. Opera 2. Barcarolle from Les Contes D'hoffmann 3. Flower Duet from Lakmé 4. Evening Prayer from Hänsel Und Gretel 5. Ah Guarda, Sorella, from Così Fan Tutte 6. Soave Sia Il Vento, from Così Fan Tutte 7. Songs 8. Del Cabello MÁS Sutil 9. Clair de Lune 10. Black Is the Color (Of My True Love's Hair) 11. Ave Maria 12. Spirituals 13. There Is a Balm in Gilead 14. Oh, What a Beautiful City! 15. Ain't That Good News 1