(Vocal jazz) Kate Reid - Sentimental Mood - 2008, MP3, 256 kbps

Kate Reid is a working jazz singer and pianist appearing regularly with her quartet at jazz venues all over the Los Angeles area including Steamers Caf? and Jazz Club, Vitello?s, The Jazz Bakery, The Lighthouse, Sangria, and Betty Hoover?s Jazz at the A Frame. She has worked with many of the great jazz musicians in Los Angeles including guitarists Ron Eschete and Larry Koonse and drummer Roy McCurdy to name just a few. She is in demand by audiences for her swing style and delivery of great jazz standard lyrics. Kate?s latest CD ?The Love I?m In? was released in September of 2011 and features tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts and pianist Otmaro Ruiz. Like her 2008 release, ?Sentimental Mood?, ?The Love I?m In? includes tunes from the American songbook.
Kate has also sung and appeared with many noted artists including Jon Hendricks, Grady Tate, Joe Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Rosemary Clooney, Mercer Ellington, Della Reese, Don Shelton, Lionel Hampton, Mark Murphy, Kevin Mahogany, Paul Anka, Liza Minelli, Tito Puente and the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Kate is a working session singer in L.A. Her film credits include ?Land of the Lost? (2009) and ?Tooth Fairy? (2010), ?John Carter? (release date in 2012), ?Iris? (2011 Cirque de Soleil), and ?The Lomax? (release date in 2012). Other recent recording work includes demos for Hal Leonard Publishing, commercial spots for T-Mobile and Suntory Whiskey. Kate has also sung backing vocals for artists X Japan and Josh Groban. She has extensive experience in group singing and recording. She has recorded many broadway and musical theater style shows for Royal Caribbean and Costa Cruise Lines. She also lent her voice to the Orange Bowl half time and parade shows in the mid 90s and was selected as one of four back-up vocalists for the recorded and nationally televised Summit of the Americas broadcast produced by Quincy Jones in 1996.
Dr. Kate Reid is on the music faculty at Cypress College in Cypress, California and currently serves as chair of the music department as well as head of the applied music and jazz programs. She teaches the jazz vocal ensembles, music history and maintains a private voice studio at the college. In April of 2011, Hal Leonard published the vocal method book ?How To Get The GLEE Sound? which Kate co-authored with producer/author Andy Waterman of Umbrella Media. Kate holds a B.M. in Jazz Studies from Western Michigan University (1992), a M.M. (1996) and a D.M.A. (2002) in Jazz Performance from the University of Miami.

Pianist and vocalist Kate Reid is the latest singer to present music from The Great American Songbook, covered by so many others over the years. Blessed with a rich alto voice and being a consummate pianist to boot, Reid puts her own unique spin to a selection of oft-heard standards. Sentimental Mood benefits from a fine cast of Los Angeles musicians, among them guitarist Ron Eschete and saxophonist Ernie Watts, who plays sparingly here. Also performing with the singer is trumpeter and husband Steve Reid.
Unlike some jazz vocal recordings where the instrumentals play a major role in the music, Reid's vocals dominate the album, pushing the other musicians to the background. This is rhythm-based music where the piano, bass, guitar and drums provide the majority of the support.
The music here is clearly designed to appeal to one's softer side, beginning with Van Heusen/Mercer's "I Thought About You" and offering others like Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," and Cole Porter's "Let's Do It/Let's Fall In Love," which set the mood here and it's all sentimental. Reid is particularly enjoyable with splendid interpretations of Jobim's "Dreamer" and "Too Late Now," two of the softer and mellow songs on the disc.
She ends on a high note with "The Face I Love," the best pick-up tune and the only one featuring Watts' dazzling saxophone, with whom Reid shares the stage on a wonderful closer and departure from the theme of the album. With a doctorate degree in Jazz Performance, Reid's Sentimental Mood is just the kind of musical medicine to cure that moody feeling, providing a jazzy prescription of sentimental love songs to soothe the tender heart.

Kate Reid: piano and vocals; Steve Reid: trumpet; Steve Barnes: drums; Chris Conner: bass; Ron Eschete: guitar; Ernie Watts: tenor saxophone

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