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Lea DeLaria to Release New CD September 9th

By: Jul. 21, 2008
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Lea Delaria will release her latest solo recording, "The Live Smoke Sessions," on September 9th.

The complete track listing for "The Live Smoke Sessions" follows:

"Down With Love" (Harold Arlen/E.Y. Harburg)
"Why Don't You Do Right" (Joe McCoy)
"Miss Otis Regrets" (Cole Porter)
"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
"Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen/John Mercer)
"Love Me or Leave Me" (Gus Kahn/Walter Donaldson)
"Love for Sale" (Cole Porter)
"Night and Day" (Cole Porter)
"Puff" Intro (DeLaria)
"Puff" (Michael John LaChiusa)
"You Don't Know What Love Is" (Don Raye/Gene DePaul)
"Jumpin' with Symphony Sid" (Lester Young/Buddy Feyne)


Lea Delaria, who already enjoyed a career as a Broadway singer and stand-up comedian, made her recording Warner Bros. debut in 2000. Hailed by the Times as 'the Best Jazz Album of 2001", Play It Cool, her debut album, confirmed Lea as one of the best jazz singers of our time. Q magazine commented "Lea Delaria is blessed with one of the most beautiful voices around", while Time Out claimed "the gal can certainly swing", and the Guardian summed her up as "talks like a coffee grinder, and sounds like a cross between Ella Fitzgerald and a Broadway diva."

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Photo by Linda Lenzi.




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