Shaynee Rainbolt SINGS Russ Garcia Watch the Flyin' Free video featuring interview clips from Don Heckman's interview of Shaynee with Russ and Gina Garcia
RUSSELL GARCIA (http://www.myspace.com/russellgarcia)
Still working regularly in New Zealand and around the world, at 92, Garcia's life is far from the glamorous world of Hollywood. However, he has been active in every area of the entertainment world – from radio and television to theatrical films and recordings – since the late '40s. His early '60s scores for George Pal's "The Time Machine" and "Atlantis: the Lost Continent" virtually created the music template for the many science fiction films that followed. His jazz arranging and composing can be heard on recordings by Stan Kenton, Roy Eldridge, Stan Getz, as well as a classic version of "Porgy and Bess" featuring Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. When describing the orchestral sounds that emerged from the West Coast jazz scene during the '50s, the name Russell Garcia always comes to mind. Not only did he provide arrangements for many singers and instrumentalists, he recorded more than 60 albums under his own name. As if all that wasn't enough, his book, The Professional Arranger-Composer, has been a valued tool for both beginners and veterans since it was written in the mid-'40s.
Always an innovator, Russell Garcia is a living legend, and his music deserves to be heard by a new generation. His unexpected and groundbreaking Four-Trombone Band with famed brass players Frank Rosolino, Tommy Pederson, Maynard Ferguson and Herbie Harper led him to use this instrumentation to great success in collaborations with singers Frances Faye and Anita O'Day, and he now brings it back to us in this new collaboration with Shaynee Rainbolt. Having arranged for Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Julie London, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Andy Williams, Judy Garland, Henry Mancini and numerous others, Russell has chosen to entrust his originals to Shaynee, one of today’s rising jazz singers.
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Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Julie London, Claudia Acuna, Harry Connick Jr, Wanda Stafford, Wesla Whitfield, Mike Greensill, Russell Garcia, Dave Frishberg, Judy Barnett, Rosemary Clooney, Ann-Margaret, Jo Stafford, Renee Marie, Diana Krall, The Beatles, The Trotter Trio, Stephen Sondheim, Eartha Kitt
WINNER 2009 MAC Award for Best Jazz Recording for Charmed Life
WINNER 2008 MAC Award for Best Original Song for 'I Remember' (featured on 'Charmed Life' music Russ Garcia/Lyrics Shaynee Rainbolt & Russ Garcia)
Charmed Life named Top 10 Vocal CD's 2008 (talkinbroadway.com)
'Charmed Life' TOP Selling Pop-Jazz Albums CDBaby.com
Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The first thing that grabs you about Shaynee Rainbolt is her voice-a warm, rich, multi-hued sound that can range from the intimacy of a sensuous whisper in your ear to a sexy strut down Fifth Avenue. It’s a voice that one can imagine caressing a ballad, or scatting briskly through the changes of “I Got Rhythm” backed by a bop-driven jazz quintet. And that’s just for starters. She is, in other words, a singer for all seasons, underscoring her constant musical eclecticism with the subtleties of jazz-inflected phrasing and a sumptuous tone."
Shaynee’s current project is groundbreaking: Shaynee Rainbolt SINGS Russ Garcia. As one of Jazz's foremost composer, conductor, arrangers, Russ Garcia has worked with everyone: Mel Torme, Anita O'Day, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn and Stan Kenton-just to name a few. His list of credits is too much to include here - but suffice it to say that in his 93 years, it is thrilling to finally see a vocal project consisting solely of his originals. Arranged and conducted by Russ for Shaynee.
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SHAYNEE RAINBOLT has performed at world-class NYC venues such as The Highline Ballroom, Jazz Standard, Iridium Jazz Club, The Metropolitan Room, The Rrazz Room, The Hideaway Room, Danny's Skylight Room & The River Room of Harlem. For almost two years the Shaynee Rainbolt Trio took the spotlight at Charley O's, in the heart of New York's Theater District. A transplant from the West Coast, she has performed in California at Yoshi's, The Rrazz Room, The Jazz Bakery, Catalina Jazz Club, The Empire Plush Room, Jazz at Pearl's, The Purple Onion, The Cosmopolitan, and Club Jazz Nouveau. She also has taken the stage at the Chat Noir in New Orleans, and Pizza on the Park and Pizza Express Jazz Club in London.
“AT HOME" released on UK based 33 Jazz Records hit the jazz charts and was nominated for the prestigious MAC 2007 Recording of The Year.
Shaynee's current project is 100% Russell Garcia - Composed, Conducted and Arranged by the legend himself. It is thrilling to finally see a project consisting solely of his originals. Arranged for voice and his signature Four Trombone Band sound so popular in the 50's and 60's, here you will get 16 songs, most of which have never been recorded before (or not with a lyric) including one that Russ Garcia wrote with Shaynee that WON THE 2008 MAC AWARD FOR SONG OF THE YEAR!
For more information please visit www.shayneerainbolt.com.
"At last a follow up to Janette Mason's sparkling debut as leader. Alien Left Hand ....was well worth the wait…” Production **** Performance**** -- BBC Music Magazine
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ehy.. great music here... welcome Shaynee & thx for friendship i hope you enjoy my piano solo improvisations and afrojazz tunes live concerts.. tell me about.. musical greetings Ciao lovely Pampa
Hey, doll, LOVE the new CD cover and the swinging sound with the trombones. Can't wait to hear you at Yoshi's and have a great time in L.A. all the best, Lua
By the way, good luck on your Russell Garcia tour -- the songs sound great! We've moved to the Midwest (Wichita, Kansas), so I will be missing your LA show (dang!) Ah well -- I'll hope you pass through Kansas City or somewhere soon!
Hey Shaynee -- I hope all is going well with your singin' road trip! Jazz rocks - keep the faith. Thanks for your [new] friendship. Best, LAURA www. LauraHull. com
