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Smile by Gary Brunotte

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Traditional Jazz Combo | Mature

14 tracks | 56 minutes

Released May 2005
on Gary Brunotte

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sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:59 Ditty For The Kitty lyrics BUY MP3 03:59 Ditty For The Kitty lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:59 Ditty For The Kitty
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sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:21 Wood Lake lyrics BUY MP3 05:21 Wood Lake lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:21 Wood Lake
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:54 Smile lyrics BUY MP3 04:54 Smile lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:54 Smile
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:35 Seal-Point Strut lyrics BUY MP3 03:35 Seal-Point Strut lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:35 Seal-Point Strut
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:18 Meow Samba lyrics BUY MP3 03:18 Meow Samba lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:18 Meow Samba
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:24 In The Night lyrics BUY MP3 04:24 In The Night lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:24 In The Night
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sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:32 Ciao Meow lyrics BUY MP3 04:32 Ciao Meow lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:32 Ciao Meow
sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:52 Smile lyrics BUY MP3 05:52 Smile lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:52 Smile

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Straight ahead trio done in an easy listening style (a la Vince Guaraldi) with short, but tasty solos, plus a couple vocals and accordion.

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This CD is easy listening jazz featuring piano, bass and drums. The songs are mostly originals with a mix of jazz waltz, latin and swing. There are also a couple lovely vocal selections on standard tunes and one even includes a Brazilian style accordion solo. Overall, it's happy music to make you SMILE!

BIO

Pianist Gary Brunotte performs his own brand of lyrical jazz, influenced by the tradition but in his own personal voice. Born and raised in a small town in Minnesota, he remembers, "My uncle played accordion, was self-taught and performed in the Navy band. In addition, my stepfather played hillbilly country guitar and my other uncles all played instruments. I started taking accordion lessons when I was nine." He debuted as a professional musician at a New Year's Eve job when he was 11, switched to organ and performed with r&b and rock & roll bands as a teenager.

"I discovered jazz after listening to Brasil '66 and Blood, Sweat & Tears.

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I particularly enjoyed Howard Roberts' records of the period and Jimmy Smith." After graduating from college, Brunotte attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, switched to piano, and taught at the prestigious school for three years. He moved to Manhattan in 1980. "I worked for a period at Rodney Dangerfield's comedy club. The jazz trio would open a set and there would be a different singer each week before the comedian came out. It was fun for a time." During this period, he won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to write a suite for a big band and his orchestra performed once a week in a club. After living and working in the Hudson Valley area, Brunotte spent 1987-97 back in Minnesota. "I played a lot of gigs at local jazz clubs, hotels and restaurants with my trio and with singer Shirley Witherspoon. I also recorded my first CD, Yesterday's Dream for the Altenburgh label."

Yesterday's Dream, which features Gary Brunotte with altoist Eric Marienthal in a quintet setting, introduces nine of his melodic originals. The CD received excellent reviews in both JazzTimes and Billboard. In addition, it received airplay throughout the United States and Europe and remained on the Gavin Chart Bound list for 8 weeks straight. In 1997 he and his wife relocated to North Carolina where he has worked steadily ever since. "Since moving here, I have recorded the solo CD Old Fashioned, the duo set Conversations with bassist Rick Jones, and I have done a lot of gigging, from little restaurants to backing major names at concerts including Mark Whitfield and Byron Stripling."

In recent times, Gary Brunotte recorded his fourth CD, SMILE, which is dedicated to his cat Dexter who passed away in Dec. 2004. Teamed on most selections with bassist Steve Haines and drummer Bill Berg, Brunotte performs such colorful originals as "Ditty For the Kitty," "Seal-Point Strut," "Meow Samba" and "Samba Siamese" along with such ballads as the atmospheric "Wood Lake," the mysterious "In The Night" and "Ciao Meow." He also utilizes bassist Rick Jones and drummer Bill Berg along with singer Kirsten Lambert on "Triste" and "Smile." The latter is heard in two versions including a Latin-tinged instrumental.

Gary Brunotte, who looks forward to recording and touring in the future, is an accessible and creative jazz pianist whose music is well worth exploring.

"Brunotte is a crisp, indeed, intelligent player whose charts sizzle and yet leave plenty of space for inspired soloing . . . tres musical."

JazzTimes Magazine, (July/August 1993)

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