Valerie Joyce New York Blue Hybrid Multi-Channel & Stereo SACD

Born in Japan and now living in Seattle, Valerie Joyce recorded two albums for Chesky Records in the 2000s. The first of these was "New York Blue", which was first released in 2005 and was highly acclaimed by critics. The recording was made at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea under sound engineer Nicholas Prout and featured the young singer, accompanied by a first-class Big Apple jazz band: pianist Andy Ezrin, bassists John Hebert and Tim Lefebvre, and drummer Gene Jackson. For some titles, the ensemble is complemented by the smoky saxophone of experienced session musician Lawrence Feldman. Joyce's fascinating repertoire combines skilful interpretations of well-known evergreens from the Great American Songbook ("Darn That Dream") with jazz standards (Miles Davis' "Blue In Green"), jazzy R&B pieces ("Fever"), rock (Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing") and pop ("Golden Slumbers" by the Beatles).
The daughter of a Japanese mother and an American father, Valerie Joyce spent her childhood in Japan, where she began her musical education at the age of six. In 1991 she moved to Tacoma, Washington and studied piano. During this time, she discovered her love for jazz and began singing in the university choir. At an audition at Berklee College of Music in Boston, she received a scholarship to study vocal jazz, which she turned down. Back in Washington, she devoted more time to her vocal training and took lessons from Michael Brockman, Jay Clayton and Jerome Gray. Valerie Joyce recorded her first album Reverie in Seattle in 2002, together with musicians from the region. Through this she came into contact with David and Norman Chesky, for whose label Chesky Records she finally recorded "New York Blue".
The recording was made at St. Peter's Church in Chelsea under sound engineer Nicholas Prout and is a unique gem in the Chesky Records catalog. As part of the "Chesky Original Masters" series, Evosound now presents a collectible new edition of this wonderful album: The hybrid SACD brilliantly showcases Chesky's famous production and recording techniques and comes with a booklet including new liner notes and a recent interview with Valerie Joyce.
EvoSound has remastered the album using hi-resolution digital transfers from the original analogue master tapes and is now available as a hybrid Stereo SACD. The hybrid SACD plays on both SACD and regular CD Players.

Features:

• Super Audio CD
• SACD Multi-Channel SACD Layer
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Remastered Using High-Resolution Digital Transfers from the Original Analog Master Tapes

Selections:

1. It Never Entered My Mind
2. Blue In Green
3. Baby Can I Hold You
4. Fever
5. Oasis
6. Every Time We Say Goodbye
7. Moon And Sand
8. Little Wing
9. Weaver Of Dreams
10. It's Easy To Remember
11. Darn That Dream
12. I Fall In Love Too Easily
13. Golden Slumbers