Pioneering Jazz Musician Carline Ray will release her debut CD "Vocal Sides", produced by her daughter, award-winning vocalist Catherine Russell, on Carlcat Records, June 4, 2013.
Featuring:
Carline Ray - vocals"April 21, 2013 marks jazz artist Carline Ray's 88th birthday. What better way to celebrate than with the release of "Carline Ray - Vocal Sides", a project lovingly put together over several years by Carline and her daughter, vocalist Catherine Russell.
"In many ways, the CD is the icing on the cake of a long, illustrious career in music. Carline is one of the great, pioneering American jazz musicians who in her words, "just happens to be female". Carline's performance is impeccable in every way -- her respect for music history and clear mastery of all the musical traditions she presents, her varied repertoire, her humor, her depth, her perfect diction, her complete artistry."Carline Ray was born in Harlem in 1925 into a musical family. She grew up hearing all styles of music, entered the Juilliard School of Music at age sixteen, and was one of three African American graduates in the class of 1946. (A second was the late jazz pianist Ellis Larkins). But Carline's always been in good company. Classically trained as a singer and pianist, and self-taught on guitar and Fender bass, she's worked with everyone from the International Sweethearts of Rhythm to Mercer Ellington to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She toured as bass player with legendary singer Ruth Brown, jazz trombonist Melba Liston, and with vocalist Carrie Smith's gospel show when they toured Europe. Carline's sung with Schola Cantorum and just about every other noteworthy choral group in New York City, was featured vocalist with the Erskine Hawkins big band, and performed and recorded as solo voice on Mary Lou Williams "Mary Lou's Mass". In 2005, Carline was the recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival Award, and in 2008, she received an IWJ (International Women In Jazz) Award.
TRACK LIST:
1. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
4:16 (Hammerstein/Romberg)
2. Donna Lee/Back Home Again in Indiana
4:18 (Charlie Parker)
3. Somewhere 4:52 (Bernstein/Sondheim)
4. Lazarus 5:37 (Mary Lou Williams)
5. Our Father 2:17 (Mary Lou Williams)
6. Land Beyond the River 2:36 (Marie Knight)
7. Come Sunday 4:05 (Ellington)
8. Hold On 2:38 (Traditional-Arr by Carline & Catherine Russell)
9. A Child Is Born 2:55 (Thaddeus J. Jones/Alec Wilder)
10. Without a Song 4:22 (Eliscu/Rose/Youmans)
11. Lucille 3:42 (Luis Russell)
Album Cover and Photo by Joseph A. Rosen.
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