Denise Donatelli
Denise Donatelli (born c. 1950) is an American jazz singer.
Early life
Donatelli was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She began playing piano at the age of three and studied classical piano for 15 years, winning first place awards in the Nation ...
. It earned Donatelli a
Grammy Award
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nomination for
Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works (songs or albums) in the vocal jazz ...
.
Track listing
# "Big Noise, New York" (Marcelle Clements,
Donald Fagen
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) – 6:17
# "Love and Paris Rain" (
Russell Ferrante
Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, California.
History
In 1977, guitarist Robben Ford, for his first solo album, recruited keyboardist Russell Ferrante, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer ...
. Will Kennedy,
Brenda Russell
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) – 5:26
# "Spaced Out (En Babia)" (
Geoffrey Keezer
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Keezer was playing in ...
, Susan Marder) – 4:23
# "Practical Arrangement" (
Rob Mathes
Rob Mathes (born September 10, 1970) is an American record producer, music arranger, composer, songwriter, and performer. He also writes bluesy spiritual-pop music.Gordon Sumner) – 3:56
# "Find a Heart" (
David Crosby
David Van Cortlandt Crosby (August 14, 1941 – January 18, 2023) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He first found fame as a member of the Byrds, with whom he helped pioneer the genres of folk rock and psychedelic music, psych ...
) – 5:32
# "Not Like This" (Jeremy Lubbock) – 4:10
# "Eyes That Say I Love You" (
Denise Donatelli
Denise Donatelli (born c. 1950) is an American jazz singer.
Early life
Donatelli was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She began playing piano at the age of three and studied classical piano for 15 years, winning first place awards in the Nation ...
) – 5:10
# "In This Moment" (
Billy Childs
William Edward Childs (born March 8, 1957) is an American composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor from Los Angeles, California, United States.
Early life
When he was 16, Childs attended the Community School of the Performing Arts sponsored ...
, Donatelli, Marder) – 5:38
# "Troubled Child" (
Jonathan Cain
Jonathan Leonard Friga (born February 26, 1950), known professionally as Jonathan Cain, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known as the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Journey. He has also worked with the Babys an ...
,
Steve Perry
Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Journey during their most successful years from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. He wrote/co-wrote ...
,
Neal Schon
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) – 5:31
# "Midnight Sun" (
Sonny Burke
Joseph Francis "Sonny" Burke (March 22, 1914 – May 31, 1980) was an American musical arranger, composer, Big Band leader and producer.
Early life and career
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Francis P. Burke and Rhoda Nihany, Burke grew up in D ...
,
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, percussionist, and bandleader. He worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, an ...
,
Johnny Mercer
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) – 6:21
# "Day Dream" (
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.
Born and raised in Washington, D ...
Billy Strayhorn
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades. His compositions include "Take the ...