May Okita - Art of Life (2019)

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Title: Art of Life
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Origin Records
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 45:24
Total Size: 106 / 181 MB
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Tracklist:

1. "Let's Face the Music and Dance" 3:46 - Irving Berlin
2. "Both Sides Now" 4:54 - Joni Mitchell
3. "Detour Ahead" 5:14 - Herb Ellis, John Frigo and Lou Carter.
4. "Art of Life" 4:50 - May Okita and Josh Nelson
5. "Blue Rose" 4:26 - Duke Ellington
6. "When She Loved Me" 5:05 - Randy Newman
7. "Some Other Time" 4:21 - Betty Comden, Adolph Green / Leonard Bernstein
8. "Smile" 3:47 - John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons and Charles Chaplin
9. "What a Difference a Day Made" 4:30 - Maria Grever / Stanley Adams
10. "Ev'ry Time We Say Good Bye" 4:31 - Cole Porter

Japanese vocalist May Okita recently departed Los Angeles where she spent several years developing her musical voice with some of the finest mentors and musical partners in jazz. Before moving back to Tokyo, she recorded this deeply personal album with two particularly inspirational and empathetic musicians: pianist Josh Nelson and guitarist Larry Koonse. Together, they explore many of the subtleties of the human heart - pleasure, sorrow, passion, calmness - her sonorous and poignant voice floating effortlessly over the Bernstein/Comden gem "Some Other Time," the Joni Mitchell classic "Both Sides Now," the Lou Carter, Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo beauty "Detour Ahead," or May and Josh's own title song. "Art of Life" is a heartfelt debut for a promising new voice.

MAY OKITA - vocal
JOSH NELSON - piano
LARRY KOONSE - guitar