Set to perform at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York City on June 19, 2012
Since first joining forces in 1998 with guitarist and kindred spirit Jordan Officer in her Swing Band, Montreal-based singer Susie Arioli has been casting her seductive spell on jazz fans throughout Canada, and in Europe. Her sultry voice, clear articulation and fondness for the Great American Songbook places her squarely in the camp of such classy jazz divas from the 1950s as Peggy Lee, Chris Connor, June Christy, Julie London and Lee Wiley, with allusions to jazz vocal icons Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday in her powerfully emotive delivery.
On All the Way, Arioli’s new CD release on Jazzheads through an exclusive arrangement with the Montreal-based Spectra/Musique, the Juno-nominated artist again puts her own distinctive stamp on standards by the likes of Rodgers & Hart, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Jules Styne, Harold Arlen, and George and Ira Gershwin. This delicious offering should establish her in the United States and the jazz community at large as a talent deserving of wider recognition. Guitarist-arranger Officer is once again onboard, as he has been for all seven of Arioli’s outings. The band is rounded out by pianist Jeff Johnston, bassists Bill Gossage and Frederic Garnier, drummers Tony Albino and Michel Berthiaume, saxophonist Cameron Wallis, trumpeter Jerome Dupuis-Cloutier and vibraphonist Francois Grenier.
Arioli’s upcoming appearance on June 19 at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, in Manhattan’s prestigious Jazz at Lincoln Center facility, will kick off her stateside release of All the Way. It’s all part of the process of increasing Susie Arioli’s presence beyond Canada. According to Jazzheads president Randy Klein, ”I heard Susie’s 2008 recording Night Lightsand immediately felt the purity of her vocal approach to these songs and knew that a larger audiences should experience the beauty of her music.”
Available at www.jazzheads.com
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What Derke and his players have done is revitalize and refresh the music of a composer whose work deserves to be heard and reheard. - The New York City Jazz Record (May 2012)
Rob Derke will be playing at the Jazzheads Jazz Festival on Friday, May 4 2012 at The Players Club NYC. Tickets available at the door.
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Tito Puente, the undisputed King of Latin music and jazz. What better way to celebrate maestro Puente’s birthday this past week (4/20/23) and his incredible legacy. This recording from Bobby Sanabria and the Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2011 and made many top 10 lists. It features incredible new updated arrangements of his majestic works for big band. Part of the purchase price goes to the Manhattan School of Music Scholarship fund.
Also available on iTunes
New York City’s WBGO, Michael Bourne, Jazzheads President, pianist and composer, Randy Klein and co-founder and artistic director, André Ménard of the Montreal International Jazz Festival at the New York city press conference for the festival discussing the Jazzheads release of the new CD by Canadian jazz vocalist, Susie Arioli titled ‘All The Way’ in the USA this June.