Laura Welland - Love Is Never Out Of Season

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Laura Welland, “Love Is Never Out Of Season”
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Surely the only red-headed, patent-holding, engineer-pianist-trumpeter-bassist woman in town...and, she sings!

With a directness reminiscient of singers like Rosemary Clooney, Irene Kral and Lee Wiley, Laura Welland is an amalgam of all her experiences. She ascribes her perfect pitch to her parents' DNA. Her years as a trumpeter helped develop her diaphragm and breath control. As a bassist, she refined her timing and sense of swing. Listening to Ella all those years set the highbar for Laura's clear enunciation. But the intensity of her singing, her genuine way with lyrics come from Laura herselfóher fruitful brain, her impassioned heart, and her personal interpretation of life. "Love..." features the rhythm section of Bill Mays, John Clayton and Joe LaBarbera, together they glide through a set of great tunes including "While We're Young," "Be My Love," and "I Got the Sun In the Morning."

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TRACKS:

1 Honeysuckle Rose 4:11
2 Iím Gonna Sit Right Down (And Write Myself a Letter) 3:09
3 Iíll Be Seeing You 5:14
4 Love Is Never Out Of Season 2:24
5 When I Grow Too Old To Dream 6:14
6 I Got The Sun In The Morning 3:24
7 Dream A Little Dream Of Me 5:55
8 Youíd Be So Nice To Come Home To 3:34
9 Iím Confessiní 3:33
10 Be My Love 3:17
11 While Weíre Young 5:26
12 If I Had You 3:36

PRODUCTION:

Produced by JOHN CLAYTON
Recorded January 22-25, 2003 and June 4, 2003 at SIGNET STUDIOS, West Hollywood, CA
Engineered & mixed by JOEL MOSS
Mastered by Ric Wilson at DIGISONICS, Northridge, CA
Photography by TIM ROUNDS
Layout and design by JOHN BISHOP/OriginArts

PERFORMERS:

LAURA WELLAND - vocals
BILL MAYS - piano
JOHN CLAYTON - bass
JOE LABARBERA - drums
LARRY FULLER - piano (1,8,11)

REVIEWS:

All About Jazz (C. Michael Bailey)
Every once in a while a vocal jazz offering comes along that makes the standard repertoire make more sense. Most recently, Love is Never Out of Season presents itself as one of these revelatory recordings. The multi-talented Laura Welland takes Thomas Wallerís time-worn standard ìHoneysuckle Rose,î seasons it to the taste of swinging mainstream, an...

All About Jazz (Dan McClenaghan)
In lot of years of listening I've come across a couple of five star takes on Fats Waller's classic song ìHoneysuckle Roseî: Benny's Goodman's extended, loose-limbed, rollicking live version on Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert; and Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton's good time renditionófeaturing a characteristic pinpoint precision trumpet solo by Popsó...

All Music Guide (Scott Yanow)
Laura Welland has a direct and simple approach as a singer, sticking close to the melody and the lyrics while swinging lightly. The key to the success of this CD, her first effort as a vocalist (she also plays trumpet, piano, and bass though not here) is that Welland picked superior songs and lets the music speak for itself. Joined by a top-notch r...

Barnes and Noble (Donald Elfman)
If you like your love songs served up straight, free of artifice and frill, then give a listen to Laura Welland. Sheís chosen 12 songs from the ballad and standard songbook and presented them in a way that focuses, most naturally, on the stories they tell. Thanks to the bright, clean sound of the production and the complementary colors provided by ...

Jazz Times (Christopher Loudon)
To the ever-growing roster of Seattleites with genuine vocal sass, you can now add the name Laura Welland. Surely, Iím assuming, the only song stylist to ever abandon a successful engineering career to pursue music, Welland started out as a trumpter, switched to bass, then finally, midway though an instrumental recording session, opened her mouth t...

Jazz Review (Don Williamson)
Laura Welland seems to be one of those multi-talented people who can accomplish any task she tackles, including engineering, playing the trumpet and learning the bass from none other than John Clayton. Once Clayton found out that she could sing tooóbut of course she could, and play piano tooóhe worked with Welland to produce her first CD. Possibly,...

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