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Sally Doherty Quartet • Planet Funk
Sally Doherty Quartet is a latin jazz band fronted by Sally Doherty (vocals) and Piero Tucci (piano and accordion). Piero has been described as “a jazzer's dream… unpretentiously skillful”. They are joined by Colin Elliot (double bass) and Phil Johnson (drums). Sally instigated this project after years of listening to bossa nova and samba from Brazil as well as music from Cuba and Mexico and after being inspired by such jazz singers as Chet Baker, Nina Simone and Billy Holiday and Brazilian singers João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Maria Creuza, Rosa Passos and Eliane Elias. She approaches Brazilian bossa nova and samba and Cuban and Mexican boleros with the same ease as the ballads and swings that she carefully selects from the American songbook. Her set includes the bossa nova repertoire of Antonio Carlos Jobim and songs by other great writers such as Chico Buarque, Ary Barroso, Consuelo Velázquez, Luis Bonfa, Jimmy Van Heusen, Gershwin, Dennis and Adair, Romburg and Hammerstein and many others. Her singing has been described as ‘intimate and passionate’. She sings the Latin American songs in their original languages of Portuguese and Spanish because, she says, “they sound so much more beautiful”. Sally also performs this repertoire as a duo or trio (see live page for details of future gigs). Sally has also performed this repertoire as a guest vocalist with Peter King and Neil Yates and with Alan Barnes as well as opening for Cleo Laine and Alex Wilson.
Sally Doherty Quartet have released two albums to date: ‘Foolish Heart’ in 2005 (see below for more information) and ‘Second Time Around’ at the end of 2007, in which the quartet was augmented by a few guest appearances, the full line-up being: Sally Doherty: vocals,
flute (on track 1) guest musicians Shez Sheridan: Spanish guitar Track 13 is part of a project with Donald Grant and involved Donald Grant: fiddle Red Skies Strings: Magnus Johnston, Claudia Ajmone-Marsan, Frances
Grime, Tom Hankey, Catrin Morgan, Helena Roques: violins album of the week on ‘The Jazz’ digital radio, Jan 2008 Tracklisting: Chovendo na roseira (Antonio Carlos Jobim) • Gentle rain (Luis Bonfá/Matt Dubey) • But not for me (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin) • Second time around (Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen) • Nuestra ultima cita (Armando Medina) • Dindi (Antonio Carlos Jobim/Ray Gilbert/Louise Oliveira) • Nós e o mar (Roberto Menescal/Ronaldo Bôscoli) • The very thought of you (Ray Noble) • Caminhos cruzados (Antonio Carlos Jobim/Newton Mendonça) • La puerta (Luis Demetrio Traconis Molina) • It could happen to you (Johnny Burke/Jimmy Van Heusen) • There’ll be another spring (Peggy Lee/Hubie Wheeler) • bonus track Noche de Ronda (Maria Teresa Lara Aguirre)
The album is now available from the shop
page, and also from amazon.co.uk,
HMV,
jazzcds.co.uk
and cdbaby.com.
Sheffield people can also buy it from Record Collector, Broomhill
or Sheffield Music Shop, Hunters Bar. Also available as a download
from
Click here for reviews of ‘Second Time Around’
Sally Doherty Quartet’s
first album was called ‘Foolish Heart’ which you can
hear some clips from below. You can order it from this site or buy
it from amazon.co.uk,
jazzcds.co.uk,
cdbaby.com
or iTunes. Sheffield people can also buy it from Record
Collector, Broomhill or Sheffield Music Shop, Hunters Bar. Also
available as a download from
Tracklisting: Tracklisting You don’t know what love is • Cuando vuelva a tu lado (What a difference a day makes) • É luxo só • My foolish heart • Bésame mucho • Softly as in a morning sunrise • Samba e amor • Trust in me • The night we called it a day • Historia de un amor • That old feeling • Manhã de carnaval
Click here for reviews of ‘Foolish Heart’
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