I'll Get Around to It

by Carrie Wicks

Overview

For her debut recording, Carrie Wicks takes a step beyond the torch singers and songbook repeaters who dominate so much of the contemporary jazz vocals available on the market. There are two major components to her difference. First, she's enlisted some of the best and brightest of the sparkling Northwest jazz scene, with mainstays of the Origin label helping out and invoking their own particular forms and legends. Second, she adds a touch of emotionality to her delivery that is missing in much of the rote lounge-style songs of torch singers. She adds a sense of pensiveness and thoughtfulness to her songs that makes them ponderous, but lightly so. The result is an engaging sound, somewhere between the quiet power of a strong blues crooner and the sweet lightness of Annie Ross. The songs included show off each aspect in separate lighting, using the band to highlight the tone in just the right ways: a drum solo in "Baby Get Lost" provides accentuation for the message; pianist Bill Anschell invokes the spirit of Bill Evans in the lighter "Comes Love." Excellent material for fans of female vocal jazz in its earlier, more original forms. ~ Adam Greenberg

Product Details

Release Date:	04/20/2010
Label:	Oa2 Records
UPC:	0805552206524
Rank:	183316

Tracks

1. Everything I've Got
2. Ill Wind
3. I'm Lost
4. Moon Samba Medley: Moonlight in Vermont/No Moon at All
5. Lilac Wine
6. I'll Get Around to It
7. Comes Love
8. I'm Old Fashioned
9. Almost Blue
10. Baby, Get Lost

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Carrie Wicks   Primary Artist,Vocals
Hans Teuber   Clarinet,Sax (Tenor)
Bill Anschell   Piano
Byron Vannoy   Drums

Technical Credits

Harold Arlen   Composer
Leonard Feather   Composer
Charles Tobias   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Lew Brown   Composer
John Blackburn   Composer
David Lange   Mixing,Engineer
Johnny Mercer   Composer
Mark Guenther   Mastering
Karl Suessdorf   Composer
Otis Rene   Composer
Red Evans   Composer
Ted Koehler   Composer
Bill Anschell   Arranger,Producer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Sam H. Stept   Composer
James Shelton   Composer
Billy Brandt   Photography
Carrie Wicks   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Elvis Costello   Composer
Ken Nottingham   Photography,Composer