Maria "Pete" Durgan, bass and vocals
John Cropp, Guitar and vocals (more and more!)
Drummers could include Ron Goad, Kirby Yarbrough, Chris Keever, Kent Stacks and other fabulous people. Kent played the drums on the songs loaded here.
Influences
Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Astrud Gilberto, Bebel Gilberto, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Nina Simone, Cassandra Williams, Cesaria Evora, Diana Krall, Etta James, Wes Montgomery, Charlie Christian, Victor Wooten, Chuck Rainey, and many more.
Sounds Like
If you like Astrud Gilberto, Nina Simone, Wes Montgomery, Joao Gilberto, Django Reinhardt, Etta James, Diana Krall, Cassandra Williams, Bebel Gilberto, you will like us.
Take a female bass player/songwriter/ vocalist
Add a latin/jazz guitar player.
Mix with a variety of wonderful drummers.
What results is a recipe for a new sound -- Swingin' Bossa Blues. NovaZanz plays originals, standards, blues, swing and other songs, including those written and performed by Tom Jobim, Django Reinhardt, Luiz Bonfa, Cole Porter, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Roberta Flack, The Inkspots, Van Morrison, Elvis Presley and a wide variety of other artists.
Maria "Pete" Durgan and John Cropp welcome you to NovaZanz on MySpace!
NovaZanz, as our myspace page approaches a few thousand friends we would like to take the time and thank you for being one of them. We have some exciting things happening this summer so don't hesitate to visit the site and check up on us. Thanks again NovaZanz.
A poem for your day:
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Rest In All Love Is
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I love you like this...
dark, i can barely see your eyes...
so dark my eyes are useless. My
heart opens wide its light on you
and your face brightens like the
static on a TV screen, or like the moment
we die and things begin to go all white
and
then
you're an angel laying before me...
the same one that has been there all along,
the one my eyes turned into something else and I
am ashamed I was deceived.
Then,
I see you, I see you like the energy that flows through my limbs,
now, like the breath that takes the universe and
gently creates another, now, like my feet walking
on glass, now, like I was never there.
I love you like I was never there. So gently, never there. In the dark
where I can barely see, and, rest in all that love is.
I look at you my Friend and I see a child at play
frolicking in muddy streams, splashing rivers into
oceans and carrying each molecule gently
to the sky for another round like a child handing water to his Father
for the first time.
You are neither boastful nor meek.
You are not shy nor are you seeking attention
There is simply abundance and grace with you my Friend
and you ask nothing of me...save I am my self...fully...always... and
you ask without asking...lead without
leading...cause...effortlessly.
I will live from this body now
I will live from this body
This body will come alive now
This body will come alive
This body will form words now
Yes
From this body all is
with scars
with broken bones healed
with muscles weak and torn
with fat
with hair
with spit
with these tastes
with these smells
with these sounds
with all
searching for perfection
If a kiss was a raindrop... we'll send you showers.
If hugs were a second... we'll send you hours.
If smiles were water... we'll send you the sea.
If friendships was a people... we'll send you us
FRIENDS ARE LIKE BALLOONS
ONCE YOU LET THEM GO
YOU CAN'T GET THEM BACK
SO I'M GOING TO TIE YOU TO OUR HEART
SO WE NEVER LOSE YOU.
Thank's for becoming one of my blues friend let's stay intouch.
So I am Dropping by to Spread Some Debbie Kendrick & Mo' Mo' Betta Blues Band Luv.
Viva le difference, hey Pete its great to hear from you and to hear you. It sounds great. I'm really diggin' the tune, the laid back oh so natural singing (if I hear one more growling overly emoted(sp.?) vocal I'm gonna x!@#$), the groove and especially that funky ass big box, far miked guitar tone. Very, very cool.
Well I guess I now will find out how well Myspace friends pull together to help each other out. I have been voting and supporting many of you in this past year.But now I am asking for your support and help.
I have been nominated for the Best New Country Artist of the year for the New Music Weekly's CMA award show coming up in Los Angeles next month. This is a huge honor to be nominated but to win would be even nicer. If you get a chance I would appreiciate it if you would stop by and do an on-line vote for me at their website.http://www.newmusicweekly.com/nmwawards.php?d=y
If this url doesn't work you can just type in New Muisc Weekly into google and it will take you to there website when you get there select Vote Now. For the company name enter yourbusiness or just enter (your name / entertainment) and your vote will be one more step in helping me towards a possible win. You can vote for me under Best New Country Artist. I am competeing with Larry King Live's wife and other top talents that have all had top 40 hits this year so I need all the support I can get since I am not a major known act yet :).
Thank you in advance for your support if you are able to help me out I will be in debt to you as well as very appreciative of your support. I hope myspace shows real worth as I reach out to all of my friends family and fans here in the world of myspace.
As winnie the pooh always said Friends are Forever,
Thank you again for your assistance should you find the time to vote for me.
Bailey
