Grammy® Award-winning vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur inspires rave reviews across the globe as the new first lady of jazz. Known to personify the composer's intentions of the Great American Songbook, Schuur swings with heartfelt intensity. |
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New Release - The Gathering  Featuring special guests Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Mark Knopfler, Larry Carlton and Kirk Whalum Since she first began recording, jazz legend Diane Schuur has had a dream. It is one she never got to achieve—until now. The singer wanted to record an album of classic country songs, those that inspired her when she was still a child. The singer has covered a lot of territory, collaborating with a range of artists from straight-ahead jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson and the swinging Count Basie Orchestra to the Latin-infused Caribbean Jazz Project to blues titan B.B. King and pop icon Stevie Wonder. She has received Grammy Awards, sold millions of albums and toured the world. But her roots were planted when she began listening to country music, and that’s where she wanted to go. On The Gathering, her Vanguard Records debut, Deedles, as she’s fondly known to both friends and fans, turns a corner into a brand new lane, infusing her jazz sensibilities into ten country-brewed tunes from such seminal songwriters as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Hank Cochran, Kris Kristofferson, Roger Miller and others. Recorded in Nashville in largely a one day-long session on December 6, 2010, Schuur is accompanied by a stellar Nashville backup band augmented by several all-star caliber guests, including vocalists Alison Krauss, Vince Gill and Carmella Ramsey; guitarists Mark Knopfler and Larry Carlton; and tenor saxophonist Kirk Whalum. [ read on ] The Sing in Swing: Deedles and Bobby Caldwell with A Big Band on Tour!  We are very pleased to announce Deedles and the extraordinary Bobby Caldwell are teaming up with a Big Band and will present a new program of material cultivated from the era of Swing when all great Orchestra's had a vocalist and all great Vocalists had an orchestra.The show will be called: The Sing in Swing starring Diane Schuur and Bobby Caldwell. Deedles and Bobby began discussing the idea earlier this year and have been exchanging notes and ideas about the music and the show itself. New Braille lyrics have been ordered so the two can really mix up their rich repertoire in this exciting format!. Dates being booked for the fall 2011 and the spring of 2012. It's going to be an exciting event and we hope you will make a point of coming out and seeing Bobby and Deedles re live some of the great moments of swing! Click here to read what the critics are saying |
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