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nick
joyce's
Live @ Ryles Jazz Club, Sets 1
& 2
The Patricia Adams
Quartet
 
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Live@Ryles
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ALBUM DESCRIPTION: Enjoy
all the energy of a live show. Hear this
unusual combination of musicians play favorite
standards to original rhythms and interpretations.
Set 1: Frank Wilkins [piano], Set
2: Ray Santisi [piano], Marshall Wood
[bass], Bob Moses [drums] .
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With Our Compliments
A Patricia Adams Ensemble
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WithOurCompliments
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ALBUM DESCRIPTION: "I met Nick Joyce in November 2003 at a benefit
my band played at Boston's World Trade
Center. Nick worked for the event's sound
company and it turned out, engineered at his own
studio in Weymouth, MA. For a few years, I
had been wanting to record a piano/vocal album and
connecting with a new accompanist extended the
wait. I wanted to capture -
- document, if you will - - the sheer glee of
vocal soaring with piano. Including
drums was a sentimental afterthought. Multiple variables
challenged our studio sessions and I learned what it
will take to record a piano/vocal CD ! So be
it. Finally, Nick and I started talking about
what might be possible. I got out of the
way and Nick cuddled up with the
music. Nick's
experience includes work with Miles Davis as
production manager/monitor engineer between 1982
and 1987. He was studio technician for
Decoy, You're Under Arrest and Tutu, Grover
Washington Jr. (FOH engineer 1990) and John
Scofield (FOH engineer/broadcast engineer/tour
manager 1989-1996). These are the most notable.
Nick has been Audio Designer and FOH engineer for
the Litchfield Jazz Festival for
the past 3 years. Read more about Nick
on his website, www.npstudios.com.
Be Careful, It's My
Heart was composed by Irving Berlin in
1942. It is one of those standards that
might be termed not-so-standard, just
because it's not often played but the melody is
always familiar. Something Cool was
composed by Billy Barnes in 1957. As he
mixed each tune, Nick emailed comments.
About Something Cool, Nick emailed, "the
emotional performance of Something Cool is
so strong, I think it needs to be pushed into
#2 .
. . . i went for a more theatrical feel, reaching
into the drama and melancholy of the tune. I
envision hearing this as if in a medium sized
theatre, a scene from an offbeat, off off Broadway
play, without too many in the audience, but the
actress is pouring her heart and soul into the
scene, as she can so totally relate to it in her
own sad, lost loves life.....". Frim
Fram Sauce was composed by Joe Ricardel
and Redd Evans in 1946. Nick said, "it
is a good tune, nice and peppy, in that second 1/2
of the set pick-'em-up slot."
And, about Blackberry Winter,
composed in 1976 by Alec Wilder, he said
"On to Blackberry
Winter, which I purposely saved for last.....cuz I
think its so wonderful......." just
before he mixed.
Such is the journey so
far of what I'm going to call With Our
Compliments !
Enjoy,
Patricia, Duffy,
Stanley, Nick & Busta Drüle
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Out Of This World
THE Patricia Adams QUARTET
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Qualified and listed in four categories on the
44th annual Grammy Awards ballot. Songs include two arrangements of the Harold Arlen title tune which opens and closes the album, Cole Porter favorite, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, contemporary improvisation repertoire including Moonlight In Vermont, Tell Me You'll Wait For Me, and Don't Explain. Hear a jazz gospel arrangement of Corner Of The Sky from the Broadway hit, Pippin and a salsa Nearness Of You. The rest of the album includes All My Tomorrows, Can't We Be Friends, Come Rain Or Come Shine, I Had The Craziest Dream and Train Station Blues. The exceptional sketches and watercolors on the disc and the insert were painted live while the quartet was in performance at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge, MA and Borders Book Shop in Framingham, MA and are thanks to the gracious generosity of the artist, Bill Commerford/Boston.
"This latest effort from the jazz singer delivers a new approach with emphasis on intimacy between the band leader (and singer) and the musicians. The sounds are a mix of jazz, blues, gospel, and salsa. This is an impressive effort . . . full of great jazz numbers covered perfectly by this singer and her group. There's a sense of intimacy and knowledge among the players and the result is wonderful listening. Highly recommended."
Armando Canalas, The Critical Review, 2001
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Blue For You
Patricia Adams
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Blue For You is an album about unrequited love - -that illusive obsession that transforms romance into fantasy. Fourteen taunting, haunting standards, blues and pop tunes fill this CD. Featured vocalist, Patricia Adams, showcases her range of feeling musically and emotionally. It's hard to believe the same voice belting out Blues In The Night emits the plaintive mood she creates in All The Time.
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members of the group fit like a snug but
comfortable glove in support of the singer.
This album is a memorable and auspicious start for
a late blooming - - but very good - -
vocalist. Recommended."
Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
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Raw Silk
Patricia Adams
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Like the fabric, Raw Silk is a natural and dimpled first effort introducing jazz vocalist, Patricia Adams, accompanied by Frank Wilkins on piano. Fifteen jazz standards and blues tunes fill the fifty-eight minute
cassette, also available on CD. Duke Ellingtons familiar Prelude To A Kiss and I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart contrast his Day Dream. Rube Blooms Cant Face The Music Without Singin The Blues and Curtis Lewis All Night Long balance the well-known Takin A Chance On Love and Our Love is Here To Stay. Adams added lyrics to
That Sunday by George Weiss & Joe Sherman, and wrote the lyrics to I Want You To Remember, composed by Allan Mueller.
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