Unison

SSC1321 2012-06-05

Track List

I Miss You - 4:09
The Story - 5:31
Obsessed - 4:53
Where Do You Think You Will Be - 6:06
Unison - 4:46
Unavailability - 2:42
Your Kindness - 5:26
One Day - 5:32
Solitude - 2:20
New Orleans - 4:07
January 2011 - 6:01
I Waiting For My Laundry in the Sun and I Have Lost You - 6:23
You and I - 5:36
You Will remember - 5:05
Half Full - 6:10

Musicians

Maria Neckam - vocals
Aaron Parks - piano, Fender Rhodes
Nir Felder - guitar
Thomas Morgan - acoustic bass
Colin Stranahan - drums
Will Vinson - alto saxophone
Lars Dietrich - alto saxophone
Samir Zarif - tenor saxophone
Kenny Warren - trumpet
Mariel Roberts - cello
Glenn Zaleski - piano

In hindsight the early 21st century is going to look like a golden age for jazz vocals, an era defined by the emergence of an international array of artists possessing strikingly original sounds. No one better embodies jazz’s glorious profusion of vocal talent than Austrian-born Maria Neckam, a singer possessing an exquisitely calibrated soprano and a poetic sensibility informed by avant pop, contemporary classical music and post-bop improvisation. Her new album Unison, slated for release June 6th on Sunnyside, captures her in all her kaleidoscopic splendor, delivering a program of exceptionally divergent original songs that sound unlike any other singer on the scene