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Shana Tucker: Shine
ByTucker began playing piano at an early age, adding cello through high school and college. She studied at Howard University and Brooklyn College Conservatory, worked with her trio, Hue, and has arranged/composed compositions on several CDs, theater productions and TV commercials. Her commissioned pieces include "Nexxus" and "Savannah," and Hue has opened for Hamiet Bluiett, Vinx, Sweet Honey In The Rock, and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Shinewhich features a smiling Tucker on blue-colored back and front coversis her maiden voyage as a solo artist since moving to North Carolina, and is tight, polished and professionally done with her angelic voice throughout. The title cut is an inspiring ballad; poetically making sense when she says: "shine on you and me." Her sense of lyricism is keen and her lyrics are as compelling as her distinctive singing.
Her accompanying musicians perform well, as if they were vibing off of her, and help her to gracefully, yet forcefully, tell her tales. It's an excellent offering from a jazz talent that deserves more recognition, whose imprint and vitality has already been quite visible in North Carolina, and whose Shine is surely a sign of greater things to come.
Track Listing
A Secret That I Keep; November; The Precious Ones; Fast Lane; Bow Out Gracefully; Repeat Again; No Get-Back; Simplicity; Look Me in the Eye; Shine.
Personnel
Shana Tucker: vocals, guitar, cello; Chris Boerner: guitar; Scotty Miller: guitar; Pete Kimosh: bass; Josh Stodhl: drums; Stephen Coffman: drums; James Wallace" piano; Byron Elliot" Fender Rhodes; Grant Osbourne: piano.
Album information
Title: Shine | Year Released: 2011 | Record Label: Self Produced
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