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Bearcat

By Ya Ya Fournier

Label: Random Chance Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Bearcat; Voice Of The Saxophone; I Don

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What the World Needs Now Is Love

By Laura Theodore

Label: Bearcat
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues (Byron/Harris) - 4:41, 2. I'm in the Mood for Love (Fields/McHugh) - 2:16, 3. Come Rain or Come Shine (Arlen/Mercer) - 1:59, 4. How Deep Is the Ocean (Berlin) - 2:26, 5. Fever (Cooley/Davenport) - 3:43, 6. The Very Thought of You (Noble) - 5:15, 7. Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Ellington/Russell) - 2:51, 8. What the World Needs Now Is Love (Bacharach/David) - 3:56, 9. S' Wonderful (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 3:44, 10. You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night (Or... (Conrad/Rose) - 2:22, 11. Why Should I Care (Eastwood/Sager/Thompson-Jenner) - 3:23, 12. A-Tisket A-Tasket/The Lady Is a Tramp (Alexander/Fitzgerald) - 2:47

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Ya Ya Fornier with David Murray: Bearcat

Read "Bearcat" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins

by Todd S. Jenkins
December 4, 2003

Without the featured vocalist, this disc would have been a run-of-the-mill set by David Murray. In fact, the second track is an average instrumental headed by Murray and Sweet Sue Terry. Unfortunately, when Ya Ya Fornier steps in, the interest level drops even further. The singer is the widow of drummer Vernel Fornier, and apparently a ...

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Laura Theodore: What the World Needs Now Is Love

Read "What the World Needs Now Is Love" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
October 14, 2003

The world may need love now, but it also needs more original artists like Laura Theodore. The vocalist opens her new CD with a smoldering and sultry “Some of My Best Friends Are The Blues"... and the band gets the blues, too, with an R&B atmosphere and a stinging muted trumpet solo followed by the salacious ...

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Ya-Ya Fornier: Bearcat

Read "Bearcat" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
October 5, 2003

Termed a “debut” album, Bearcat features vocalist Ya Ya Fornier, veteran saxophonist David Murray, and bassist Jaribu Shahid, along with a score of guest musicians. Though this album represents the first recording venture for Fornier, wife of the late Vernel Fornier, it is certainly not the first time Ya Ya has been around recording, which may ...

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Ya Ya Fornier: Bearcat

Read "Bearcat" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
July 25, 2003

Ya Ya Fornier is not exactly a newcomer. Her late husband, Vernell Fornier, was a drummer long associated with Ahmad Jamal. Bearcat is the vocalist's first recording, however, and she has recruited none other than David Murray, the iconoclastic and enigmatic tenor saxophonist who has been an American expatriate for the last number of years. The ...