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Devil May Care by Kate Hammett-Vaughan
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10 tracks | 61 minutes
Released Dec 2006
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:15 All of You lyrics BUY MP3 06:15 All of You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:15 All of You
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:08 Prelude to a Kiss lyrics BUY MP3 05:08 Prelude to a Kiss lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:08 Prelude to a Kiss
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:56 You Know Who (i Mean You) lyrics BUY MP3 05:56 You Know Who (i Mean You) lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:56 You Know Who (i Mean You)
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:46 Strange Weather lyrics BUY MP3 04:46 Strange Weather lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:46 Strange Weather
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 09:18 Poor Boy lyrics BUY MP3 09:18 Poor Boy lyrics "GIFT MP3" 09:18 Poor Boy
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:23 Throw It Away lyrics BUY MP3 05:23 Throw It Away lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:23 Throw It Away
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:34 Devil May Care lyrics BUY MP3 05:34 Devil May Care lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:34 Devil May Care
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:23 Weird Nightmare lyrics BUY MP3 06:23 Weird Nightmare lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:23 Weird Nightmare
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:10 Show Me lyrics BUY MP3 07:10 Show Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:10 Show Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:07 I Remember You lyrics BUY MP3 05:07 I Remember You lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:07 I Remember You
BACK IN PRINT and available for download on ITunes. Jazz standards and little-known gems sung by one of Canada's most individual jazz singers.
Editorial review
Many contemporary singers who want to get to wear a jazz mantle but at the same time wish to attract a younger set of fans more accustomed to rock and adult pop cut CDs with a mix of songs covering several popular music genres. That's fine, as long as intelligence and discretion are used in shaping the agenda. That Kate Hammett-Vaughan took the time to do just that separates her album from many other contemporary jazz vocalists who were not as discerning in putting together their play list. Hammett-Vaughan has reached back to the 1970s and before to include Tom Waits' "Strange Weather," which she delivers in a nocturnal, moving manner, and Nick Drake's "Poor Boy." This cut sets aside plenty of room for the bass of Andr? Lachance and the drums of Tom Foster. Somewhere along the musical spectrum comes "Show Me" from {+My Fair Lady}. This latter track is not only used to display the singer's vocal virtues, but allows for solos and give and take by Jim Pinchin on soprano sax and Chris Gestrin on piano. Then there's a little vocalese with an arrangement of Thelonious Monk's "I Mean You" refigured to come out as "You Know Who." The obligatory piece by Abbey Lincoln is here as "Throw It Away." (It's either Lincoln or something by Joni Mitchell that predictably shows up on these albums.) But the real point is that whatever Hammett-Vaughan and her quintet chooses to perform, it's done with verve, ?lan, and a flawless sense of what they are supposed to do with the music. This is a fine album providing both an entertaining vocal and instrumental experience, and is recommended. ~ Dave Nathan, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Visit Kate Hammett-Vaughan's website at www.katehv.com
“ ... a marvelous storyteller with a bag of vocal tricks big enough to compel constant attention, and the knack of making everything she attempts sound newly minted and admirably assured as her free spirit roams and experiments.” Geoff Chapman, Toronto Star
“… a wonderfully breezy singer who slips free of a song’s formal constraints at no risk to its familiar sentiments… an important Canadian jazz voice.” Mark Miller, Globe and Mail
"...the finest jazz standards singer in Canada." CODA magazine
Since moving to Vancouver, BC from her home province of Nova Scotia in 1979, Kate Hammett-Vaughan has established a reputation as one of Canada’s most individual and creative jazz vocalists, and one of the West Coast’s most respected teachers of the art of jazz singing.
Hammett-Vaughan’s ease with all manner of material and her improvisational instincts set her apart from many of her contemporaries.
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