Skonberg, Bria / What It Means
| Album: | What It Means | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Skonberg, Bria | Added: | Aug 2024 | |
| Label: | Cellar Music | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2024-08-24 | Pull Date: | 2024-10-26 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Oct 27 | Oct 20 | Oct 13 | Sep 22 | Sep 8 | Sep 1 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 12, 2024: | Hanging in the Boneyard
Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) |
4. | Oct 15, 2024: | Traditions
Elbow Bump |
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| 2. | Nov 09, 2024: | Music Casserole
The Beat Goes On |
5. | Oct 08, 2024: | Traditions
Days Like This |
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| 3. | Oct 22, 2024: | Traditions
Days Like This |
6. | Sep 17, 2024: | Traditions
Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) / A Child Is Born |
Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2024-08-18
Reviewed 2024-08-18
JAZZ: BAND W/ VOCALS
Bria Skonberg, a Canadian-born trumpet player / composer / singer, gives us a nice sampler containing a few of her own original compositions, a couple jazz classics, and some popular-song covers. Her singing is good, but not exceptional; her arrangements and trumpet parts are stronger. She’s backed by a tight, New Orleans based ensemble.
FCC clean
1 * mid-slow slinky intro, then a fun up-tempo syncopated scamper; instrumental (4:30)
2 Amos Lee’s old-timey novelty song, sung by Bria in a cutie-pie style (3:40)
3 slow ballad. Bria singing, lightly comp’d by guitar, piano, bass; trumpet solo (4:13)
4 mid-fast; Sonny & Cher’s 1960s hit gets a soulful hard-bop treatment (6:50)
5 * mid-tempo; pleasant straight-ahead jazz. Skonberg original; instrumental (6:21)
6 * fast. Impressively faithful redo of a 1920s Louis Armstrong tune; instrumental (4:44)
7 ** slow then mid-tempo. warm & lovely interpretation of a John Lennon song (5:27)
8 ** mid-fast. snappy cover of a Van Morrison song. Good guest vox. Extended band (3:23)
9 * slow. instrumental classic by Sidney Bechet. strong trumpet, nice bass clarinet (4:35)
10 ** fast. lively & syncopated instrumental romp. Good solos all around (7:05)
11 ** very slow. medley of two beautiful lullabies: by Billy Joel and by jazz trumpet great Thad Jones; Bria’s nicest vocal & best trumpet solo. Syrupy sweet but gorgeous (4:29)
Bria Skonberg, a Canadian-born trumpet player / composer / singer, gives us a nice sampler containing a few of her own original compositions, a couple jazz classics, and some popular-song covers. Her singing is good, but not exceptional; her arrangements and trumpet parts are stronger. She’s backed by a tight, New Orleans based ensemble.
FCC clean
1 * mid-slow slinky intro, then a fun up-tempo syncopated scamper; instrumental (4:30)
2 Amos Lee’s old-timey novelty song, sung by Bria in a cutie-pie style (3:40)
3 slow ballad. Bria singing, lightly comp’d by guitar, piano, bass; trumpet solo (4:13)
4 mid-fast; Sonny & Cher’s 1960s hit gets a soulful hard-bop treatment (6:50)
5 * mid-tempo; pleasant straight-ahead jazz. Skonberg original; instrumental (6:21)
6 * fast. Impressively faithful redo of a 1920s Louis Armstrong tune; instrumental (4:44)
7 ** slow then mid-tempo. warm & lovely interpretation of a John Lennon song (5:27)
8 ** mid-fast. snappy cover of a Van Morrison song. Good guest vox. Extended band (3:23)
9 * slow. instrumental classic by Sidney Bechet. strong trumpet, nice bass clarinet (4:35)
10 ** fast. lively & syncopated instrumental romp. Good solos all around (7:05)
11 ** very slow. medley of two beautiful lullabies: by Billy Joel and by jazz trumpet great Thad Jones; Bria’s nicest vocal & best trumpet solo. Syrupy sweet but gorgeous (4:29)
Track Listing
| 1. | Comes Love (4:28) | 6. | Cornet Chop Suey (4:43) | |||
| 2. | Sweet Pea (3:40) | 7. | Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (5:05) | |||
| 3. | Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? (4:11) | 8. | Days Like This (3:20) | |||
| 4. | The Beat Goes On (6:49) | 9. | Petite Fleur (4:36) | |||
| 5. | In The House (6:21) | 10. | Elbow Bump (7:03) | |||
| 11. | Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) / A Child Is Born (4:29) | |||||