Sam Dillon, Jay Anderson, Logan Strosahl & Randy Brecker & The NDR Big Band

It's Friday again and our pick of the latest releases have been added to our New Release Playlist. Just added is music from Sam Dillon, Jay Anderson, Logan Strosahl & Randy Brecker & The NDR Big Band. Check it out here: https://t.co/A9HD9TujkD pic.twitter.com/3VF8KPL9ob

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Julie Kelly

Julie Kelly CD Release Celebration for "Happy To Be" @ BIRDLAND

Winner of 2015 Top Ten Downbeat Reader's Poll for Jazz Vocalist! 

Thursday, March 10th

Birdland Jazz Club 
315 West 44th Street, New York NY 10036 

(between 8th and 9th Avenues on the west side of midtown Manhattan)

Julie Kelly  -  vocals
Mark Soskin - piano
Jay Anderson  -  bass
Anthony Pinciotti  - drums
Billy Drewes - tenor/flute

"Fresh, beautifully phrased vocals..." - Marc Myers

"All eyes remain on this sublime vocalist throughout." - Dan Bilawsky All About Jazz

"Great tone, magnificent phrasing, and the innate ability to sing with the band and not around them." - Brent Black

"There’s something about her sound that is utterly engaging and convincing. No matter what Julie is singing about, I believe her. " - Kate McGarry

"An outstanding work of art." - Doug Boynton

Grammy-nominee Kate McGarry writes of Julie's new CD:

Julie Kelly gives us a rich harvest of songs and stories a vocalist with a reputation for refined tastes in tunes, band mates and arrangements,  It's a bumper crop of juicy, freshly picked tunes worth waiting for; and worthy of joining the seven other smart and swinging recordings Kelly has released during her lauded career as a jazz vocalist, lyricist and educator. And while this project does feature some obscure gems from the Great American Songbook, it also contains original songs and lyrics from Julie's own expanding portfolio, even as she spotlights new material from jazz's next generation of fine composers and lyricists.