https://youtu.be/n89EmNlRrZc


muzycy:
Laurie Antonioli - Vocals
Sheldon Brown - Saxophones, Clarinets
Dave MacNab - Guitar
Matt Clark - Piano
Dan Feiszli - Bass
Jason Lewis - Drums

Editor's info:
In recent years Laurie Antonioli has devoted herself — apart from her two intimate, resplendent duo albums with jazz master pianist Richie Beirach — to the sound of a working band. Her band, that is. On American Dreams (2010) and Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: The Music of Joni Mitchell (2014), the Bay Area vocalist (and Chair of the Vocal Program at Berkeley’s California Jazz Conservatory) bonded with a tight, accomplished, versatile and deeply compatible cast of players, almost all of whom return here for a third inspired outing, The Constant Passage of Time.

You will hear the actual words The Constant Passage of Time in the lyric to the leadoff track “Longing for You,” bringing a reflective cast to the whole endeavor. “I like the sound of the phrase,” Antonioli muses, “and it captures my philosophical sense of how things that are bigger than us, mostly in nature, continue a steady course, even in light of how ephemeral we all are.”

A central aspect of this band’s sound is repertoire, and the ability to inhabit, mold and transform it. For Antonioli this practice is deeply rooted: writing lyrics to instrumental jazz tunes is something she began very young. At 19 she was invited onto the Jazz Alley bandstand by Joe Henderson himself, to sing her original lyrics to “Isotope” and “Inner Urge.” (“It was quite an experience with Charlie Haden and Joanne Brackeen playing in the band,” she marvels.) This process of seeking out distinctive melodies and recasting them in words, whether on her own initiative or in direct collaboration with great composers, became her life’s pursuit.

On The Constant Passage of Time, Antonioli offers an especially arresting and genre-defying slate of songs and makes them her own, through her stirring vocal performances but also in every arrangement, every sonic detail. Of the.......
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Editor's info:
In recent years Laurie Antonioli has devoted herself — apart from her two intimate, resplendent duo albums with jazz master pianist Richie Beirach — to the sound of a working band. Her band, that is. On American Dreams (2010) and Songs of Shadow, Songs of Light: The Music of Joni Mitchell (2014), the Bay Area vocalist (and Chair of the Vocal Program at Berkeley’s California Jazz Conservatory) bonded with a tight, accomplished, versatile and deeply compatible cast of players, almost all of whom return here for a third inspired outing, The Constant Passage of Time.

You will hear the actual words The Constant Passage of Time in the lyric to the leadoff track “Longing for You,” bringing a reflective cast to the whole endeavor. “I like the sound of the phrase,” Antonioli muses, “and it captures my philosophical sense of how things that are bigger than us, mostly in nature, continue a steady course, even in light of how ephemeral we all are.”

A central aspect of this band’s sound is repertoire, and the ability to inhabit, mold and transform it. For Antonioli this practice is deeply rooted: writing lyrics to instrumental jazz tunes is something she began very young. At 19 she was invited onto the Jazz Alley bandstand by Joe Henderson himself, to sing her original lyrics to “Isotope” and “Inner Urge.” (“It was quite an experience with Charlie Haden and Joanne Brackeen playing in the band,” she marvels.) This process of seeking out distinctive melodies and recasting them in words, whether on her own initiative or in direct collaboration with great composers, became her life’s pursuit.

On The Constant Passage of Time, Antonioli offers an especially arresting and genre-defying slate of songs and makes them her own, through her stirring vocal performances but also in every arrangement, every sonic detail. Of the.......
more