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A Marvelous Party

Duchess

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2026
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Tracks

This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Lucky Day; Are You Having Any Fun?; Ain't That a Kick in the Head; Enjoy Yourself; Hey, Look Me Over; It's All Right With Me; Champagne; Put On a Happy Face; Is That All There Is?; Danke Schoen.

Personnel

Duchess

band / ensemble / orchestra

Michael Cabe

piano

Jesse Lewis

guitar

Matt Aronoff

bass

Jared Schonig

drums

Erica von Kleist

saxophone

Jason Rigby

saxophone

Owen Broder

saxophone

Summer Camargo

trumpet

Nick Finzer

trombone

Oded Lev-Ari

arranger

Amy Cervini

vocals

Hilary Gardner

vocals

Melissa Stylianou

vocals

Album Description

Duchess’s new album chooses joy without pretending the world is any less complicated or any less in turmoil. Across a program arranged by producer Oded Lev-Ari for swinging rhythm and horn sections, Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, and Melissa Stylianou treat pleasure not as escapism but as a way of staying human—meeting dark times with wit, swing, hijinks, and close harmony.

This album carries a deep awareness of passing time: time that alters lives, songs that have endured across generations, and alchemy that only live performance, night after night, can create. What remains constant is the reason for making music in the first place—being together, singing together, and finding shared delight.

The album unfolds as a series of vignettes from a party, each song catching a different color or mood: wild, bittersweet, glamorous, unruly, wistful, tender. Nearly twelve years after the group first found its sound around a piano in a tiny storefront, Duchess stays true to their credo: The party is still here, and no one is taking the good times for granted.

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