Sony Holland
Vocal CD of the Month Sony Holland: Sanssouci (Van Ness) 2010
Featuring: Sony Holland (vocals), Jerry Holland (guitars), Robbie Kondor (keyboards), David Hughes (bass), Kendall Kay (percussion) & Wolf Sebastian (cello) Recording Engineer: Mark Vincent Additional Engineering by Gary Griffin & Nolan Shaheed Mixing Engineer: Brendan Harkin Mastering Engineer: Erik Wolf Graphic Design: Chris & Terry Dudley Photo: Anthony Popolo
This enchanting CD, by LA-based singer Sony Holland, offers delightful moments that combine elegance, delicacy, sensitivity & musical joy, in reverence to music's subtler values. The lovely intertwining of lines, tempos and motifs abounds throughout the beautifully & inventively arranged 13 track-program, a perfect blend of standards (from the opener My Foolish Heart to the finale with the best vocal version of My Romance since Carly Simon's recording with Eddie Gomez & Steve Gadd 20 years ago) and originals by Sony's hitmaker (and multi-talented) husband Jerry Holland -- my personal favorite being Little Tune, that sounds sooooo pretty!
Also noteworthy are Sony's renditions of Rufus Wainweight's title track Sanssouci and Carla Bruni's Those Dancing Days Are Gone, composed (for her second album, No Promises, from 2008) after a 1929 poem by William Butler Yeats. Not to mention Joseph Kosma's 1945 standard Les Feuilles Mortes, sung firstly in French (with the original Jacques Prévert lyrics) and soon after with the English lyrics added by Johnny Mercer in 1947. The mixing of Sony Holland's soulful vocals with the sparse/ingenious instrumentation is pure pleasure.
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October 23, 2012
The Sony Holland Quintet @ Yoshi's San Francisco on November 18th
April 04, 2012
The Sony Holland Quintet Returns To Vitello's on May 6
January 04, 2011
Sony Holland plays Kuumbwa Jazz (2/26) & The Rrazz Room (2/27)
September 15, 2010
Sony Holland "Sanssouci" CD Release Party at First & Hope on October 7
January 11, 2010
Sony Holland & TSQ Play Two in SoCal
October 05, 2009
Catalina Jazz Club Welcomes Vocalist Sony Holland
August 17, 2009
Vocalist Sony Holland @ The Dakota Jazz Club (Minneapolis) on September...
May 20, 2008
Vocalist Sony Holland CD Release @ The Blue Note NYC
October 08, 2007
Sony Holland Plays Sentimental Farewell to the Empire Plush Room
February 09, 2007
Carmel Jazz & Blues Company Valentine's Concert w/ Sony Holland
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