KJ Denhert - The Evening News (2024) [Hi-Res]

KJ and four jazz musicians walked into a Bar… It was probably a Wednesday and the bar was the 55 Bar.

Award-winning singer-songwriter KJ Denhert is releasing her 11th album, "The Evening News". The album could easily have been a live set on any number of Wednesdays where the seasoned performer and writer was spreading her wings. The Evening News is the band's name, celebrating their first recording together.

Album Notes
One night, after a sold-out performance at The Falcon in upstate New York, dearly departed friend and venue owner Tony Falco asked KJ, “Would you be into singing some jazz?” The seed was sown! KJ put together an ensemble featuring some of NY’s most accomplished jazz musicians, drawing from the Great American Songbook tunes that KJ knew from childhood, and The Evening News (formerly called the Jazz Project) started a residency at The Falcon. That led to a mid-week residency at the 55 Bar in Greenwich Village, where KJ’s legendary band, The New York Unit had been playing for two decades. The KJ Denhert early set at The 55 became a must-see event on the NYC jazz calendar, and over 4 years the band developed a sound and repertoire of its own. Wanting to capture the personality of this ensemble, KJ and the band decided that this group needed to be recorded. The result is “The Evening News”, an album that features KJ’s spectacularly soulful vocals and guitar, exquisite playing by each of the band members, and a tracklist that weaves jazz standards, re-invented pop songs, and KJ’s captivating original compositions into a musical work of art. KJ hopes that you find as much joy in listening to this album as she and the other musicians did in making it. Enjoy the Evening News.

“As a songwriter, I am happy to finally share this album with four original songs and four classic tunes from Lennon and McCartney, Lerner and Loewe, and Rodgers and Hammerstein. Of all of the songs on the album, Postcard from Paris could have been the title track, written posthumously for my Mom. Instead, I changed the name of the band to The Evening News and the band became the title track “- KJ

Tracklist:
1.01 - KJ Denhert - Blackbird (5:42)
1.02 - KJ Denhert - Esmerelda (4:45)
1.03 - KJ Denhert - Surrey With The Fringe on Top (7:34)
1.04 - KJ Denhert - On the Street Where You Live (4:05)
1.05 - KJ Denhert - Postcard from Paris (4:39)
1.06 - KJ Denhert - Singer of Sorrow (6:35)
1.07 - KJ Denhert - Eleanor Rigby (7:10)
1.08 - KJ Denhert - I Love It When You Say Goodbye (5:15)