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Champian Fulton: Meet Me at Birdland

Read "Meet Me at Birdland" reviewed by Edward Blanco


The young and talented pianist Champian Fulton presents another enchanting album recorded live at New York's Birdland dinner jazz club simply titled Meet Me at Birdland, celebrating twenty years of performing in the Big Apple; playing the piano and lending her sultry vocals to a host of uncommon standards. Since arriving in New York in 2003, playing at Birdland has become a regular feature for the pianist, a musical home away from home. Fulton employs a world-class trio that has ...

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Champian Fulton: Birdsong

Read "Birdsong" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Champian Fulton was introduced to alto saxophonist Charlie Parker during her stay in the womb. The New York-based pianist/vocalist's father, Stephen Fulton held a high opinion ("The most beautiful music that ever was") of Charlie Parker With Strings (Verve, 1950), so he made a cassette tape of the recording and played it during his wife Susan's pregnancy: The sound waves of Charlie Parker and Orchestra traversing maternal flesh to burst into the domain of amniotic fluid to find their way ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Meet Me at Birdland

Champian Records
2023

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Birdsong

Self Produced
2020

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Too Marvelous for Words

From: Meet Me at Birdland
By Hide Tanaka

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