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CD RELEASE: The small girl quartet featuring Aliza Amihude - vocals, Jeff Presslaff - piano, Gilles Fournier - bass, and Scott Senior - percussion and drums internationally released their new CD, BIG BANANA, at Burning Man in August/September 2008 with performances everyday in different villages. Available to purchase on line at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/smallgirl small girl halts traffic at the intersection of jazz, blues, burlesque, and performance art. More specifically, small girl is an original, brilliant, and progressive jazz quartet whose vivacious singer channels the spirit of Jacques Brel, the intensity of Edith Piaf, and the gall of Lenny Bruce.
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BIG BANANA Song List: 1. I Love Me (2:40) |
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With this new recording, Aliza embarks upon a career of making life more challenging for critics and writers of liner notes. Poised somewhere on the edge of complete musical naiveté and enormous sophistication, of sincerity and irony, and at the intersection of jazz, blues, burlesque, and performance art, she opens doors to the unexpected. This small girl’s humour, sassiness, range of inflection, and quirkiness of melody make listening to her and her progressive jazz back-up a delightful and sometimes breathtaking experience. small girl is an ensemble that turns on the harmonic and rhythmic dime, not unlike the late Betty Carter’s groups, but with Aliza’s own forthright take on life, love, the universe, and everything. The songs tell stories whose performance can go an which way on a given night. Aliza and Jeff’ rely on their highly developed musical rapport to allow things to swing freely from whichever tree they find themselves up in, and the resulting emotional terrain is a wonder to behold. The 14 songs on BIG BANANA
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The artwork for BIG BANANA was all done in 2008
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CONTACT: Aliza Amihude |
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