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Born to Be Blue
Solitaire Miles
Born to Be Blue
Genre: Jazz
 
Solitaire Miles has always loved swing tunes. Her grandmother, a singer with a big band in the late 1930s, exposed her to the music early on. Solitaire originally planned to be an opera singer, but while attending DePaul U...  more »

     
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All Artists: Solitaire Miles
Title: Born to Be Blue
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: CD BABY.COM/INDYS
Release Date: 5/18/2010
Genre: Jazz
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 884501300469, 884501300469

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Solitaire Miles has always loved swing tunes. Her grandmother, a singer with a big band in the late 1930s, exposed her to the music early on. Solitaire originally planned to be an opera singer, but while attending DePaul University in Chicago, she met the legendary swing violinist Johnny Frigo who encouraged her to sing jazz. After college she began working in Chicago with Sax Maestro Von Freeman, and pianist Willie Pickens, who also played on her self-titled release in 2006. "I was lucky to have their guidance, because they were playing jazz with the greats in their day." During later years while living in New York, she would sit in regularly with the great trumpeter Doc Cheatham, learning lots of swing tunes. From these venerable bandleaders, she learned more about phrasing; "They wrung every little bit of pop styling from my phrasing until it became authentic, unadulterated jazz and swing."

For her third release Born to Be Blue, Solitaire utilizes some of Chicago's top jazz musicians, all of whom have the flexibility to sound at home in a swing combo. "Willie Pickens is always my first choice on piano," says the singer. "I love working with him because he is not just accompanying me, we listen closely and challenge each other." A few of the numbers feature pianist Joe Vito who was Johnny Frigo's regular accompanist for years. Some selections include tenor-saxophonist Jim Gailloreto, while the versatile trumpeter Art Davis is heard playing in a conversational style not that dissimilar from Doc Cheatham's.