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05/02/08 Celebrating 25 years as an independent artist, producer, founder and CEO of Easily Suede Music (thanks to you), I am extremely proud to announce that "Dangerous Mood," the new CD recorded with a twelve piece band, is right on target for the official release date of May 31, 2008 in Washington, DC. Concert details and tickets can be found by scrolling down to the calendar listings. Pre-release copies of "Dangerous Mood" can be purchased in the Suedewave.com store or right below. Seven of the twelve tunes included on the new CD are arranged for trio and nine piece horn section by pianist/arranger and Musical Director Janice Friedman who wrote them exclusively for my style. As with previous recordings, this CD is a multi-textured array of pop, jazz and blues tunes with big band arrangements as well as beautifully intimate trio tunes. The sound is unmatched by anything we've done to date. Auditions and rehearsals were held in New York City, then off we went to the amazing Bennett Studios in Englewood, NJ where the likes of k.d. lang and Tony Bennett himself have recorded. There we engaged the brilliance of multi-Grammy winning David Kowalski as our recording/mixing engineer. The finishing polish was handled by our mastering engineer Kurt Lundvall of Lundvall Mastering, who also happens to be a Grammy winner. All good karma, I say! Order your copies now! CDs are $15 plus a small online handling fee. Securely purchase with any major credit/debit card here: For a mail order form, please send an email to suedewave@aol.com or you can find a printable version in the store. As you might imagine, this project has a very large budget and we have not even begun to really promote it. We here at Easily Suede Music humbly invite you to join us in creating a Dangerous Mood far and wide by making an additional contribution. If interested and able you may do so here: Please note you may contribute any amount desired with the 'donate' button provided above. Your transaction is absolutely secure through the most highly regarded online merchant processing available. If you prefer sending a check, please make the check payable to Easily Suede Music and send to PO Box 1665, Wellfleet, MA, 02667.We are offering thank you gifts according to various levels of giving including free signed CDs, VIP tickets to concerts, and for higher tiered gifts, I will go into the studio and record a song you've always wanted to hear me sing - making one copy, just for you - an absolute one of a kind collector's item. If you're interested in hearing more about available gifts please email Jere Jacob at formisty@aol.com. If you prefer making an anonymous contribution Jere will very discreetly handle that as well. It has been a complete thrill producing this project. Celebrating my 25th year as a fulltime musician is the perfect time to just flat out go for it and take the huge leap, in every regard, to realize yet another longtime dream - to sing with a big band. We've accomplished that with a magnificent hand picked team. This is a true labor of love and I cannot wait to get it out to the world. I sincerely hope you enjoy it as much as I have loved working on it for all these months. In closing, a general reminder, my peeps -- If you can't be with us at upcoming shows but know someone in the areas we're getting to please be sure to pass the word along. We depend on the kindness of your sharing to keep growing the Diva's following far and wide. How else will I become a household name, people? See you out there! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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MY FILM SOUNDTRACK DEBUT! Can you imagine sitting in a dark theatre engrossed in a fabulous film and suddenly hearing the Diva's dulcet tones from the screen above? Well, it's in the works, people. I have been invited to contribute to the soundtrack for a documentary film about the remarkable Jane Chambers called "Eight Faces of Jane: The Life and Work of Jane Chambers," a work in progress by Independent Filmmaker Alison McMahan. The producers came to Provincetown for several fundraising events recently and on Sunday, October 15, I debuted a song written for the film at a special fundraiser performance. Please visit the film's website and support this wonderful project honoring the courageous work of Jane Chambers LONG before the days when Ellen DeGeneres, Rosie O'Donnell, Melissa Etheridge, k.d.lang, The Indigo Girls etc., could hope for such great success and recognition. Indeed, without women like Jane Chambers one could argue whether they would have ever been so fortunate. Keep watching your local PBS listings for "Suede, Live at Scullers Jazz Club" in your neighborhood! We are doing our best to keep track of new markets and thank all of you newbies who post messages on the board letting us know when we show up in your livingroom! Janice and I had a fantastic 5 days in LA celebrating the 10th anniversary of Vox Femina Women's Choir where I was asked to be their guest soloist at Zipper Auditorium for their concerts titled "Hot Women, Cool Jazz." Dr. Iris Levine and the women of this chorus make beautiful music and I was very honored to be with them as they closed out their 10th successful season. We had a blast together! Just before that, after stepping off the plane from Venice and Greece where I worked oh, so hard with Olivia Cruises, I stepped right onto center court at Mohegan Sun Casino to sing the National Anthem for the WNBA's CT Sun game. That's right, center court - just me singing a cappella and a color guard of girl scouts. Pretty awesome if I'd stopped to think about it. Good thing I didn't. Some say I nailed it, blush, blush. We had a show in the Wolf Den that night and blew the roof off the joint, including my magnificent drummer Tim Horner playing Viola on "Emily Remembers" which was just astoundingly beautiful. My time in Cincinnati with the Men's Chorus was also absolutely fantastic! For those of you who missed it I was a guest soloist with the phenomenal Cincinnati Men's Chorus for their concerts titled "Women We Love." Apparently I qualify, blush, blush....Among other great tunes we did together I debuted "When You're Good to Mama" (from "Chicago") and "Defying Gravity" (from "Wicked") working with local musicians - always an adventure! It was great fun. This soloing gig with choruses is an exciting new direction to join all the other things yours truly enjoys throughout the year whilst touring hither and fro. As you know I was a guest soloist in January with the LGCW during the huge peace march weekend in Washington, DC for their concert titled "Peace by Piece" which was also a privilege to be part of (see fan reviews for both on the message board ). Keep reading...more big news ahead...... Among the adoring throngs the Diva has thrilled in recent times, none other than Christopher Radko, Evelyn Champagne King, Kathleen Madigan finalist and current judge from TV's Last Comic Standing, and Bea Arthur who stopped the show when she stood up and exclaimed that her evening with the Diva was the "best night of my life in an audience. You are to DIE for!" Well, that about made our decade! Also in recent times, Suede appeared on the nationally aired NPR radio shows, Metro Connection, The Faith Middleton Show and West Coast Live, from D.C., Hartford, CT, and San Francisco, respectively. She also flew to LA to air a TV show called "Flaunt Live!!" being shopped to the Bravo Network, among others. Cross your fingers! AND, PBS picked up the new DVD for airing on any PBS station nationally that is interested in playing it during the upcoming Spring Pledge drive. National PBS is plugging it as a "must see" to all station programmers, putting it on the cover of the catalog going to each station nationally. To date we know it has been aired in 30 markets nationally including these stations: KRCB in San Fran bay area, WPSX in central PA, KENW in New Mexico, WVPT in VA, KTWU in KS, WNED airing in Buffalo and Toronto, KLRN in San Antonio, WBCC in Cocoa Beach, WTCI in Chattanooga, KPTS in Wichita and WXEL in Ft. Lauderdale, WYBE in Philly, WNPT in Nashville, WNMU in northern Michigan, KVCR in Palm Springs and San Bernadino, WYCC in Chicago, and more every day. You can keep track of it all, post your thoughts and chat with other devotees, seasoned and brand new, on the message board . Your Diva is THRILLED to be able to support PBS and NPR in this way as one of many independent artists who take on the great challenge of getting radio/TV airtime and the critical exposure they provide. PBS and NPR continue to be very supportive of artists such as myself so please support them as they support all of us out here without big label deals and all the benefits that come with that - big budget, tour support, bookings, promotion, etc. |