The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents

Kandace Springs

Air Date: 5/4/2025 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET
 
Every time we get a new album from Kandace Springs, I know it will be a good one. Her latest CD, Lady in Satin, is no exception. It features something new for Ms. Springs - strings!
 
In 1958 Billie Holiday released what many consider to be her last best recording, the original Lady in Satin. Ms. Holiday's release features Ray Ellis and his Orchestra, and it covers 12 songs from the Great American Songbook.
 
 
 
Now, Kandace Springs has re-created this recording, with the Orquestra Clássica de Espinho conducted by Diogo Costa. 
 
As you will hear on this show, the sound is lush, inviting, delicious. Ms. Springs is known for her thoughtful and gentle way with lyrics and piano, so it is fitting to have her sing and play with orchestral backing. 
 
The show opens with a ballad version of The End of a Love Affair. I have to admit some bias about this tune since my first hearing of it was a version by Wes Montgomery, played uptempo. But here we dig deeply into this song as it was originally intended, a slow ballad, with emotional lyrics. A totally different vibe from what Wes did. But just as good!
 
Another song that struck me is Glad to Be Unhappy, which you'll hear during hour two. Check out this version, which I will follow up with Eric Dolphy's instrumental cover of this interesting and unusual song, with an unusual message. (Well, maybe not that unusual.) It's great to hear these songs with lyrics to really get to the core of the song. I enjoy both versions immensely, and I'm sure you will also.

Show Openers

A listener has asked about the music bed I use to open the show. It changes every week, but lately I have been using a couple of songs from Pat Metheny:  Road to You and Tell Her You Saw Me.

Thanks for listening to the Sunday Jazz Brunch. And thanks to all who have sent email with your feedback. Keep it coming! I'm at marty@wicn.org.
 
Best,
 
Marty 


HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning

Kandace Springs\Lady in Satin 2025\The End of a Love Affair
Trilogy\The Slow Road 2025\Luna
Peter Erskine\Vienna to Hollywood 2025\06 Romance (Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.)

Bill O'Connell\Touch 2025\Touch
Nanami Haruta\The Vibe 2025\How it Goes
Rodney Jordan\Memphis Blue 2025\Autumn Leaves

Marianne Solivan\Break's Over 2025\Open the Door
Jeffrey Gimble\Brand New Key 2025\In The Glow of the Moon
Luis Giraldo\I'm Old Fashioned 2024\I Could Have Told You So

HOUR TWO: New For You

Solid Jackson - Bernstein & Meldhau\M.T.B. 2025\The Things That Fall Away
Rodney Jordan\Memphis Blue 2025\003 Escapatoria
Kandace Springs\Lady in Satin 2025\I Get Along Without You Very Well
Johnny O'Neal\Everybody Loved Johnny 2025\ The More I See You

Kandace Springs\Lady in Satin 2025\Glad to be Unhappy
Eric Dolphy-Outward Bound-05 Glad to be Unhappy
Harry Drabkin\Reincarnation of a Lovebird 2025\Three Flowers

Geoffrey Dean Quartet\Conceptions 2025\Prism
Jeff Libman\Feet Off the Ground 2025\Fooled in the Past
Trilogy\The Slow Road 2025\Hi-Fly
05 PETER ERSKINE - Concerto Miniature (theme from Violin Concerto 2nd mvt.)
Bill Evans Trio-Everybody Digs Bill Evans 1958-05 Epilogue

HOUR THREE: Brazil/World/Groove

Mafalda Minnozzi\Riofonic 2025\Se E Tarde Me Perdoa
Paul Taylor-It's a Brand New Day 2025-10 Downtime
Carlos Pingarilho\Samba feat Ithamara Koorax
Diego Figueiredo\I Love Samba 2024\Little Moon
Sergio Mendes\Brasileiro\Esconjuros

Mafalda Minnozzi\Riofonic 2025\Eu E A Brisa
BPM-Seriously 2024-05 Black Pearl feat Brian Bromberg
Gustavo Cysne\Deep Blue 2024\If You Never Come To Me
Lizz Wright-Salt-06 Eternity 2003

Mafalda Minnozzi\Riofonic 2025\Rio
Norman Brown-It Hits Different 2024-05 Strollin' feat Tom Shuman
Jacqui Naylor-Treasures of the Heart 2024-09 Love in Springtime
Rodney Jordan\Memphis Blue 2025\002  Minority
Bill Mays Trio-Going Home-03 Shohola Song 2003

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