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Some of you have heard Zan Gardner's voice, you have her now on a magnificent CD. The lady I'm about to introduce, her songs that is, I think is just at the edge of approaching world class talent.
She is that, all she needs is a wider spread exposure to the publics out there. With Dreambox Media, a very fine recording company, she has done an album, just come out with an album, not very long ago at all, called "Here's My Heart". She's gonna do some things I haven't heard in a long time, I don't mean the pieces, I mean, essentially, the way she treats them. She has every single necessary talent for good jazz. She has timing, she has the quality of voice, she has a way with lyrics that you believe them. Now I'm giving her a big sell here and I think I'm very, very, correct about this though. This lady I'm very sure of. So here we go with Zan Gardner, the Dreambox Media album is "Here's My Heart" and we're going to hear four tunes, I'm just going to let them run: "Exactly Like You", old standard, then there's"Stolen Moments", another one and "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I've Grown Accustomed To His Face". Now notice the different personality in each if these songs. (songs play)
Zan, Zan Gardner, let me spell that for you, Zan Gardner. The "Dreambox Media" album is "Here's My Heart", it certainly is. Zan just sang "I've Grown accustomed To His Face",prior to that was "The Way you Look Tonight", leading off from that was "Stolen Moments" and we began the set with "Exactly Like You", all great standards, but by the way, sung with incredible improvisation. Taking songs that, some of them are well maybe not close to being tired, the songs themselves, but she sings them a new way, the improvisation is out of sight. I don't know anybody, any woman, we're speaking of female vocal musicians, and certainly Zan Gardner is a musican, I don't know of anybody who touches her on the major labels at this time I think that anybody hearing this, and by the way there are nine tunes on here, each of that quality.
So she is something I think, very, very, special and I can't figure out why she hasn't gone to the top. She's been around a while, but by the way, I think that's paid off. She has every move, in her voice, in tune, not something where somebody's says well they're sliding, glissing or whatever, and they're out of tune. Uh Uh, no, she does all that too but not out of tune. She is something special; the album is Zan Gardner, "Here's My Heart", from Dreambox Media. And let me say also about the wonderful musicians, I haven't heard a band that good in so long with Dave Posmontier on piano, John Swana, an old friend on trumpet and flugelhorn and evi horn, Chico Huff on bass, wonderful bass player, Steve Holloway on drums, percussion, wonderful and Tony Miceli on vibraphone, wonderful too. Tony wasn't on this particular piece, but oh my heaven's, what a wonderful,an wonderful combination of the right band and the right person singing these wonderful tunes.
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