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Playing Favorites! 2002
In her third album, Cathi Walkup offers up a mixed palette of light and dark, the playful and the sublime.
The fourteen tracks on PLAYING FAVORITES! range from Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer to Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker - including an emotionally charged accolade to Billy Strayhorn, the great composer/arranger who was partner to Duke Ellington. Walkup has crafted a wonderful melange of light and dark - just like life - and delivers it straight from the heart with her trademark joy, care and quiet abandon
The singer is a gift; the band is nearly psychic - Playing Favorites is a favorite I’ll be playing for a long time to come. - Fred W. Harris, SkyJazz Internet Radio
A pervasive sense of charmed sophistication - Wayne Saroyan - Jazz West
It’s not just the voice; it’s what you do with it…she stays low and spins the lyric with dizzy rhythms - John Barrett, Jr., Jazz Improv Magazine
She’s a talented singer and lyricist, with a natural ability to blend words and music that makes for a fascinating repertoire - Jeannete Lambert -
Jazzgrrls
Cathi Walkup’s warm and elegant tone dances effortlessly over a bed of solid melody - Chris Cortez, DJ, KCSM FM 91.1 San Mateo, CA
How to get it
The Playing Favorites! CD retails at $15.00 (+$2.00 shipping and handling)
and can be ordered directly through Cathi Walkup’s website, CDbaby.com;
Bud’s Jazz Records in Seattle, WA; Music Millennium in Portland, OR;
Amazon.com on the internet, or call (415) 495-6850 or write Flying Weasel
Enterprises at 201 Harrison, #531, San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A.
Song Titles:
Tanya’s Wicked Body
What Say?
Mambo de la Luna
The Ruby and the Pearl
Flying
The Last Light of Evening (Blood Count)
In These Shoes?
Down Here on the Ground
This Time the Dream’s on Me/
Hit the Road to Dreamland
Soon It’s Gonna Rain
Hang Up and Drive
Not While I’m Around
Anthropology
Some Things Never Change
Musicians Featured:
Cathi Walkup - vocals
David Udolf - piano
Brad Buethe - guitar
Dmitri Matheny - flugelhorn
John Wiitala - bass
Jim Zimmerman - drums
Recorded live…
at the Plush Room of the York Hotel in San Francisco, August
19th &20th 2002. Recorded, Engineered and Mastered by Adrian Wong, Loose Ears Recording, Cathi Walkup
The fourteen tracks on PLAYING FAVORITES! range from Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer to Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker - including an emotionally charged accolade to Billy Strayhorn, the great composer/arranger who was partner to Duke Ellington. Walkup has crafted a wonderful melange of light and dark - just like life - and delivers it straight from the heart with her trademark joy, care and quiet abandon
The singer is a gift; the band is nearly psychic - Playing Favorites is a favorite I’ll be playing for a long time to come. - Fred W. Harris, SkyJazz Internet Radio
A pervasive sense of charmed sophistication - Wayne Saroyan - Jazz West
It’s not just the voice; it’s what you do with it…she stays low and spins the lyric with dizzy rhythms - John Barrett, Jr., Jazz Improv Magazine
She’s a talented singer and lyricist, with a natural ability to blend words and music that makes for a fascinating repertoire - Jeannete Lambert -
Jazzgrrls
Cathi Walkup’s warm and elegant tone dances effortlessly over a bed of solid melody - Chris Cortez, DJ, KCSM FM 91.1 San Mateo, CA
How to get it
The Playing Favorites! CD retails at $15.00 (+$2.00 shipping and handling)
and can be ordered directly through Cathi Walkup’s website, CDbaby.com;
Bud’s Jazz Records in Seattle, WA; Music Millennium in Portland, OR;
Amazon.com on the internet, or call (415) 495-6850 or write Flying Weasel
Enterprises at 201 Harrison, #531, San Francisco, CA 94105, U.S.A.
Song Titles:
Tanya’s Wicked Body
What Say?
Mambo de la Luna
The Ruby and the Pearl
Flying
The Last Light of Evening (Blood Count)
In These Shoes?
Down Here on the Ground
This Time the Dream’s on Me/
Hit the Road to Dreamland
Soon It’s Gonna Rain
Hang Up and Drive
Not While I’m Around
Anthropology
Some Things Never Change
Musicians Featured:
Cathi Walkup - vocals
David Udolf - piano
Brad Buethe - guitar
Dmitri Matheny - flugelhorn
John Wiitala - bass
Jim Zimmerman - drums
Recorded live…
at the Plush Room of the York Hotel in San Francisco, August
19th &20th 2002. Recorded, Engineered and Mastered by Adrian Wong, Loose Ears Recording, Cathi Walkup
LIVING IN A DAYDREAM
Having received high praise as a lyricist on her debut album, Cathi penned lyrics to the title tune as well as three of the other eleven cuts on this album, with melodies provided by a handful of the finest instrumentalists the Bay Area has to offer. This album has received critical acclaim, airplay and distribution internationally.
QUINT-ESSENTIAL
On her first time out coordinating a collaborative effort, Cathi assembled some of the best vocalists and instrumentalists in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each of the five vocalists contributed three songs to the album. The effort was rewarded by being short listed for the Grammy Ballot as best vocal jazz album of 2001.
NIGHT OWL
On her debut CD, Cathi wrote both the title song and two of the twelve tracks, as well as putting her own stamp on the arrangements for several of the much loved standards. Accompanied by Bay Area legends Al Plank on piano, John Wiitala on bass and Colin Bailey on Drums, as well as many other wonderful instrumentalists, this album received national acclaim and airplay.
Saturdays at Central
Discography
SATURDAYS CENTRAL
Compilation 2001
As a San Francisco based artist who tours frequently in the Pacific Northwest, Cathi was very pleased to be included in this compilation of both classical and jazz artists who perform at the Saturdays at Central Series in The Collins Gallery of Portland, Oregon’s Multnomah County Main Library.
SATURDAYS CENTRAL
Compilation 2001
As a San Francisco based artist who tours frequently in the Pacific Northwest, Cathi was very pleased to be included in this compilation of both classical and jazz artists who perform at the Saturdays at Central Series in The Collins Gallery of Portland, Oregon’s Multnomah County Main Library.
..AND A SONGBIRD IN A PEAR TREE
Six individual San Francisco jazz vocalists came together to create a warm and wonderful holiday sampler. In the jazz tradition of giving back to the community a portion of the proceeds were donated to the Blue Bear School of American Music to help fund a vocal jazz scholarship.