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. The album was released in 2002 on Ledisi's record label LeSun Music. The album's musical style ranges from 1930s–1940s blues influences to contemporary jazz music. Live instrumentation was employed in recording of the entire album as part of Ledisi's vision of creating a jazz record using live instruments.

Production and recording

In 2001, Ledisi began recording her second album. Unlike her previous album ''

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'', Ledisi wrote and recorded original jazz songs. "Sugar / Brown Sugar" mixes interpretations of "Sugar" by

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. She also recorded

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s including " 'Round Midnight", "In a Sentimental Mood", and " Autumn Leaves". She worked with American musician Pete Escovedo on the title-track "Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue". According to album's liner notes, "If You Go" was dedicated to American singer

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who died in a plane crash in August 2001.

Promotion

"Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue" was released as the first single in June 2002. "Good Lovin'", from the album ''

'' (2000), was released as the B-side song to "Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue". On May 25, 2003, Ledisi and her band Anibade performed a twenty-minute

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Accolades

''Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue'' won "Outstanding Jazz Album" at the California Music Awards on May 25, 2003. She was also nominated for "Outstanding Female Vocalist" and ''Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue'' was also nominated for "Outstanding R&B Album" at the same ceremony.. J-Notes. Retrieved on July 19, 2024

Track listing

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Personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner notes of ''Feeling Orange but Sometimes Blue''. *Rich Armstrong – trumpet (track 2) *Ron Belcher – double bass (tracks: 2, 4, 6) *Tommy Bradford – drums (tracks: 1, 8) *Nelson Braxton – arrangements (tracks 5, 10, 11), bass (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11), production (track 1) *Wayne Braxton – production (track 8), tenor saxophone (track 8) *Dezson Claborne – drums (tracks 4) *Brian Collier – drums (tracks 3, 5, 7, 10, 11) * Pete Escovedo – percussion (track 7) *Louis "Paisley" Hinton – arrangements (tracks 3, 11), piano (track 4) *Richard Howell – tenor saxophone (tracks 4, 6) *David James – slide guitar (track 2) *Josh Jones – percussion (tracks: 3, 10) *Ledisi – executive production, vocals (all tracks), arrangements (tracks: 4, 5, 6, 10), production (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11), songwriting (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 11) *Mark Levine – piano (track 9) *Sundra "Sun" Manning (tracks 10, 11), organ (tracks 3, 10), piano (tracks 2, 5, 7, 10, 11), production (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7) *Johnny Mercer – songwriting (tracks: 10, 12), production (tracks 10, 12) *Karl Perazzo – percussion (track 7) *Robert Rhodes, Jr. – (track 2) *Khalil Shaheed – trumpet (track 4 *Wayne Wallace – trombone (track 4)

References

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