JAZZ Curtis Stigers Releases His 11th Album Hooray for Love on - TopicsExpress



          

JAZZ Curtis Stigers Releases His 11th Album Hooray for Love on Concord Records Purchase CD Rock n roll and jazz share so many of the same artistic bloodlines that its remarkable the two dont fuse more often into the kind of inspired marriage of visceral clout and intellectual savvy conjured by the singer, songwriter and saxophonist Curtis Stigers. - New York Times The lines between different genres of music continue to blur, and on Curtis Stigers lastest CD, Hooray for Love, the fusion of rock n roll, blues, r&b and jazz continue to meld. Hooray for Love is Curtis Stigers eleventh album which includes classics from the Great American Songbook including such gems from the repertoire as George and Ira Gershwins Love is Here to Stay, Jerome Kerns The Way You Look Tonight, and If I Were A Bell, from Guys and Dolls, as well as three songs written or co-written by Stigers, including the title track, Hooray For Love, Give Your Heart to Me, and A Matter of Time. Of his new album, Stigers comments, On almost all of my Concord records, Ive done a standard or two and lot of songs by modern songwriters. This time around, Ive flipped it and recorded mostly standards with a few modern songs. A seamless combination of old and new songs, a classic pop album recorded with jazz musicians and a jazz sensibility, Hooray for Love is a celebration of this universal human condition. I set out for this album to be like an old Nat King Cole record from the 50s. Ive had a lot of people ask me to do more standards, not critics or record companies, but friends. So, I had a running list of songs that I love and have always wanted to record. This time it really made sense. As with most of Stigers recordings, he is very comfortable juxtaposing standards with modern songs. In addition to the songs penned by Stigers, Hooray for Love also includes a Steve Earle song called Valentines Day, included because, as Stigers notes, I like songs with stories that are told from a point of view of someone that is flawed, and this narrator is, although he ultimately redeems himself with some very romantic wordplay. I think that, while its important to keep the Great American Songbook alive, its equally important to be open to adding to it.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 02:54:10 +0000

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