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Jazz vocalist Christiana Drapkin has been performing in the New York area and on the East Coast for more than a dozen years. She is noted for her lyrical and highly personal delivery of ballads and for her abandoned yet artful scat improvisations. Christiana's singing is deeply immersed in the rich traditions of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae, as well as in the vocalese fireworks of Anita O'Day, Annie Ross and Eddie Jefferson. With her focus on Jazz Standards, she highlights improvisation and harmonic development, carrying on and developing the tradition of Be-Bop and musicians like Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Lennie Tristano and Dizzy Gillespie, to name a few. Her new CD "Songs About You" features several original compositions by pianist Charles Sibirsky, guitarist Andy Fite, and saxophonist Charley Krachy, rounded out by her fresh interpretations of Standards from the American Songbook. Charles Sibirsky is on piano, Murray Wall on bass, John Merrill on guitar, and Charley Krachy on saxophone. TRACKS: 1. Time On My Hands (You In My Arms); 2. Open Your Heart; 3. You Don't Know What Love Is; 4. Cholesterol Blues; 5. Among the Living; 6. Formation; 7. Jazzman's Serenade; 8. Procrastination Blues (Now's the Time); 9. Songs About You; 10. Just Friends; 11. Monkery's the Blues (Blue Monk); & 12. Out Of Nowhere.