Megan Birdsall - Track 13 (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 357.93 Mb | 01:07:13 | Covers
Vocal Jazz | Label: Self-Released
Megan Birdsall has began a featured songstress in the Kansas City Jazz community since she broke onto the scene fronting her own jazz trio called Birdsong while also singing lead for Kansas City's power house blues band The Nortons. Soon she was headlining the best clubs in town: Jardine's Jazz Club, The Phoenix, The Blue Room, Plaza III, and 12 Baltimore. Megan was then asked to be the featured act at the re-opening of the historic Drum Room in the Hotel President.
Her first album, Track 13, was recorded at Soundtrek Studios in 2005 and released in 2006. This record featured original material and was an amalgam of jazz, blues, and pop, featuring songs by artists as diverse as Cole Porter, Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder.
In 2007 she began preparing her second record, Little Jazz Bird, a record that would be dedicated to the exploration of the traditional jazz standard. National jazz luminaries Mike Melvoin, Bob Bowman, Mike Metheny, and Paul Smith signed on to perform. Within the first month of recording she was diagnosed with a degenerative arthritic jaw condition that threatened her career and her life. She required maxio-facial reconstructive surgery of a very specialized kind to move her jaw off of her windpipe, which had become severely labored, leaving her only four millimeters of airspace. This life-saving surgery left her with no guarantees that she would ever sing professionally again.
In the next six months, Megan finished Little Jazz Bird, and through the support of the Jazz community and a city that stood behind her, she was able to release the album a month before she underwent the surgery in early 2008.
During her arduous recovery Megan began musing and writing new songs. It was a personal lesson in surrender a journey filled with music fumbling down to paper and recordings through wires. Beginning to craft her own unique all original material she was determined to soar through the scars of surgery, and eventually Megan slowly but joyously returned to work as a jazz singer. She released the album MBird: "Over the Bones" in 2010 and helmed a national songwriter tour that took her from coast to coast and 23 cities in April of 2010. This was the beginning of a marriage between Jazz and Country that could only come from a slinky jazz singer into an acoustic indy-folk album.
Megan feels very blessed to be accepted at a young age into this community of immensely gifted musicians and songwriters. Her passion to help "carry the torch" comes not only by carrying forward the great jazz standards, but also by helping bridge traditions to other forms of musical expression, writing new songs and also bringing forth her personal style for today's audience and for music lovers of all kinds everywhere. Megan states that her loyalty and love of music at its heart is what saved her life and what will drive her in all genres for years to come.
Track List:01. Blackbird (6:17)
02. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (3:38)
03. Dear Prudence (6:32)
04. Autumn's Song (4:20)
05. Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (7:18)
06. Love for Sale (3:46)
07. Lover Man (4:47)
08. Help Me (5:04)
09. That Song About the Midway (5:06)
10. Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today) (2:16)
11. Mean to Me (4:57)
12. The End (4:39)
13. Track 13 (Tell Me Something Good) (8:33)
Megan Birdsall - vocals
Bobby Watson, Jill Atherton - saxophone
Jason Goudeau - trombone
Greg Richter - drums, vibraphone, piano
Bob Bowman - bass
Todd Strait, Tim Cambron - drums
Rod Fleeman - guitar
Jack Lightfoot - trumpet
Download link:
Só visivel para registados e com resposta ao tópico.Only visible to registered and with a reply to the topic.Links are Interchangeable - No Password - Single Extraction
Cantinho Satkeys
