Grace Notes Music - The Singers Center

04/09/2020

Happy Centennial Birthday, Carmen McRae!
Grace Notes Music - The Singers Center has a Centennial gift for you. A new recording “The Beginning of Love” This is an Exceptional and Rare release of Carmen McRae (Singing and playing piano from live performances when she was in Holland) On this CD portrait, Carmen McRae performs in her purest and happiest way, as a singer and as a pianist which she was originally.

03/30/2020

Celebrating Birthday of Vocalist ASTRUD GILBERTO
The Story Behind "The Girl From Ipanema"
Astrud Gilberto was just the wife of singing star João Gilberto when she entered a NYC studio in March 1963. João and Jobim were making a record with tenor saxman Stan Getz. The idea of cutting a verse on “Ipanema” in English came up, and Astrud was the only one of the Brazilians who spoke more than phrasebook English. Astrud’s child-like vocal, devoid of
vibrato and singerly mannerisms, was the perfect foil for her husband’s soft bumblebee voice. Jobim tinkled piano. Getz blew a creamy smooth tenor. Four minutes of magic went to tape.
"The Girl from Ipanema" Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz
"The Girl from Ipanema" ("Garota de Ipanema") written in 1962 by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics in Portuguese by Vinicius de Moraes and in English by Norma...

"The Girl from Ipanema" ("Garota de Ipanema") written in 1962 by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics in Portuguese by Vinicius de Moraes and in English by Norma...

03/07/2020

celebrating the Birthday of Flora Purim (born March 6, 1942) a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Return to Forever with Chick Corea
You're Everything http://youtu.be/rbynfCYDfuI
Light as a Feather (1972) is the second studio album of fusion band Return to Forever, led by keyboardist Chick Corea, under the Polydor label. Chick Corea Fender Rhodes, Electric Piano. Stanley Clarke Acoustic Bass. Joe Farrell Saxophone, Flute. Flora Purim Vocals, Percussion. Airto Moreira Drums. http://youtu.be/rbynfCYDfuI

Light as a Feather (1972) is the second studio album of fusion band Return to Forever, led by keyboardist Chick Corea, under the Polydor label. Chick Corea F...

02/01/2020

Our latest newsletter - The links will take you to our Fiscal sponsor Fractured Atlas (Grace Notes Music is a Sponsored Project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Grace Notes Music must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law)

01/13/2020

Music students have higher academic exam scores than their non-musical peers.

12/22/2019

Sadly the Senate "leader" Mitch will just put it on the bottom of all the other good bills the House have passed

U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to eliminate the arts funding organization for three years.