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Listen to Sample Clips:
- 1 Cheek to Cheek 4:02 Berlin
Listen: mp4 (448k) | Windows wav (4.3mb) - 2 Loverman 3:34 Davis, Sherman, Ramirez
Listen: mp4 (512k) | Windows wav (4.8mb) - 3 Blue Skies 4:01 Berlin
Listen: mp4 (384k) | Windows wav (3.6mb) - 4 How Long Has this Been Going On?
4:50 Gershwin, Gershwin - 5 Some Cats Know 4:52 Leiber, Stoller
- 6 Someone to Watch Over Me
2:12 Gershwin, Gershwin - 7 I Love Being Here with You
3:08 Lee, Schluger
8 Embraceable You 4:58 Gershwin, Gershwin
Listen: mp4 (512k) | Windows wav (4.8mb) - 9 Why Can’t You Behave? 3:21 Porter
Listen: mp4 (512k) | Windows wav (5mb) - 10 Meet Me, Midnight 3:02 Manilow, Sussman
- 11 The Nearness of You
5:06 Carmichael, Washington
12 Let’s Eat Home 2:39 Frishberg
Listen: mp4 (512k) | Windows wav (4.8mb) - 13 Down with Love 3:16 Arlen, Harburg
Listen: mp4 (512k) | Windows wav (4.8mb) - 14 Over the Rainbow 3:48 Arlen, Harburg
Listen: mp4 (512k) | Windows wav (5.3mb)
- Vocals—Paula Alder
- The Band, Seven Come Eleven—
- Hammond Organ—Gianni Staiano
- Guitar—Mark Van Ness
- Drums—Kris DiNoto
- Saxophones and horn arrangements—Bruce Wandmayer
- Trumpet—Dan Young
- Viola and string arrangements—Chad Kaltinger
This album was truly a collaborative affair.
First of all, these are some of the greatest songs a woman could ever sing. My heart is in every one of them. I hhave been listening to and singing jazz for thirty years, and I have been influenced by those I love— including but not limited to —Ella, Sarah, Nina, Blosson, Peggy, Billlie, Lena, Judy, Barbra— as well as a little Frank and Tony, and a lot of Ray. I was also fortunate to find a band that is musically synchronistic, immensely talented, and genuinely open to creating and building arrangements with me. My family and friends have been more than supportive and enthusiastic, and I recorded this album in a studio that helped to make all the hard work seem like great fun.