MUSIC

Playing with the Big Boys LIVE
Released: September 2008

Kristine Mills with the Ken Ward Trio
featuring Barry Lee Hall, Jr. and Rocky White,
veteran members of the Duke Ellington Orchestra

Recorded April 28, 2007
Release September 27, 2008

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Celebrated Houston jazz vocalist Kristine Mills and the Ken Ward Jazz Ensemble recorded live at Cézanne, Houston's premier jazz club.

Featured in the ensemble were two veterans of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, drummer Rocky White and Barry Lee Hall, Jr., conductor/arranger and trumpet player for that great orchestra. The other members of the ensemble included Ken Ward on piano and David Craig on bass and Paul Chester on guitar. Andy Bradley of SugarHill Recording Studio engineered the recording.

The standing-room-only audience enjoyed a very exciting night of jazz classics from the Great American Songbook, including those penned by Ellington, Porter and Gershwin. Kristine performed beautiful and lush renditions of bossa nova sung in Portuguese. Also performed were rip-roaring, down and-dirty blues.

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Reviews:

Kristine Mills: Playing with the Big Boys — Live!
By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Houston Press - Published on September 25, 2008

"Vocalist Kristine Mills is doing something almost no one else in Houston is doing these days: singing jazz. Not watered-down jazz lite, but real, actual jazz — with nuance, improvisation, interplay between her and her musicians, and respect for the art form."

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Tracks include:

I Love Paris
Lullaby Of Birdland
Do Nothing Til' You Hear From Me
Bye, Bye Blackbird
Norwegian Wood/All Blues
How Long Has This Been Going On
Mountain Greenery
If You Never Come To Me
They Can't Take That Away From Me
How High The Moon
Tennessee Waltz
One For My Baby And One For The Road

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