Jazz Articles

Jeannie Tanner: Words And Music

by Roger Farbey
April 30, 2017

Chicago-based Composer, vocalist and trumpeter Jeannie Tanner has produced quite an album. Not just one but two CDs spanning nineteen songs all of which were entirely composed by Tanner, hence the title of the record. No fewer than twelve guest vocalists were enlisted for this project some of whom doubled on an instrument such as Elaine Dame, who plays exquisite flute and also sang on the breezy “Come Along For The Ride" and the wry-sounding “Red." Another instrumentalist who sings ...