Vocalist and trumpeter Dale Head is an unheralded local guy from the Bay Area. On Swing, Straight Up, Head makes a splashing, swinging national recording debut singing and playing the horn in re-imagining and re-invigorating music from The Great American Songbook
The music is pure big band swing with terrific vocals from a unique artist with a varied background. On this exciting debut, Head and the band fly high and pack quite a punch in interpreting swinging arrangements that make old favorites sound like brand new releases
Head delivers one of the most romantic versions of the classic Gene De Paul song "Teach Me Tonight" in a killer of a performance.
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Vocalist and trumpeter Dale Head is an unheralded local guy from the Bay Area. On Swing, Straight Up, Head makes a splashing, swinging national recording debut singing and playing the horn in re-imagining and re-invigorating music from The Great American Songbook
The music is pure big band swing with terrific vocals from a unique artist with a varied background. On this exciting debut, Head and the band fly high and pack quite a punch in interpreting swinging arrangements that make old favorites sound like brand new releases
Head delivers one of the most romantic versions of the classic Gene De Paul song "Teach Me Tonight" in a killer of a performance.
Rick Walsh's arrangement of the time-honored composition "My Favorite Things," also brings out the power play from the Night Jazz band and highlights the husky baritone scatting vocals of Head on a defining piece of the album.
The Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen and Sinatra staple "Come Rain or Come Shine," features the softer side of the leader as he tones down the vocals adding a bit more emotion to the song occupying the warm spot of the album.
Swing, Straight Up features the classics in an amazing big band format behind the powerful vocals of Dale Head, a hidden wonder who, thankfully so, has decided to share his talents with the rest of the jazz world with a very impressive debut.
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