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A Love Letter To Lena

Label: Declare Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Old Devil Moon; Home (spoken interlude); I Got A Name; Maybe; Hollywood (spoken interlude); Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; Seminar with Drinks (spoken interlude); I Want to Be Happy; Soul Mates (spoken interlude); Something To Live For; I'm Free (spoken interlude); Believe in Yourself; The Movement (spoken interlude); Stand Up.

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Clairdee: A Love Letter To Lena

Read "A Love Letter To Lena" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


Revered decades after her passing, Lena Horne has remained an icon in the realms of music, stage & screen, and civil rights activism. With A Love Letter to Lena, San Francisco-based vocalist Clairdee assumes the task of saluting Horne by way of selections from Billy Strayhorn and other great American composers. And the inclusion of narration ...

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Clairdee: A Love Letter To Lena

Read "A Love Letter To Lena" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


A fixture on the Bay Area jazz scene, Clairdee has established herself as a self-assured singer and an artist who's never content in repeating an idea. Her first three albums move from the studio to the holidays to the stage, demonstrating a high level of comfort in disparate settings and seasons. This fourth project—a tribute to ...

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Music Moves

Label: Declare Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Yes Sir, That's My Baby; Cheek to Cheek; Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars; Summertime; Do Something; If I Could Be With You for One Hour Tonight; Sunny; Someone Else is Steppin' In; All the Way; Alright, Okay, You Win.

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Clairdee: Music Moves

Read "Music Moves" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


One thing that makes live music great is the way artists feed off an audience's energy. San Francisco-based vocalist Clairdee makes that point clear on the opening notes of “Yes Sir, That's My Baby, the first song on Music Moves. As the audience applauds the introduction, Clairdee says that's the reaction she wants to hear, “even ...

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Clairdee: Music Moves

Read "Music Moves" reviewed by Jim Santella


Music in motion. That's what Clairdee's performances are. Recorded live at Yoshi's in Oakland, California, Music Moves reveals a singer who communicates with her audience on all levels. It's easy to love her music and the way she delivers it. In her comments on this album, Clairdee mentions her deep respect for singers of ...

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This Christmas

Label: Declare Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Bringing In a Brand New Year; Winter Wonderland; Merry Christmas, Baby; A Child Is Born; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas; The Christmas Song; Baby, It

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Clairdee: This Christmas

Read "This Christmas" reviewed by Jim Santella


It’s that time of year for celebrations. A party atmosphere surrounds Clairdee’s contemporary gift package, adorned with ribbons of R&B, traditional blues, Latin jazz, and a heartfelt appreciation of the Christmas spirit. She interprets classic songs that have been handed down by favorite composers and lyricists such as Charles Brown, Alec Wilder, Thad Jones, Mel Torme, ...

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Destination Moon

Label: Declare Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: When Lights Are Low; Star Eyes; Tonight I Shall Sleep with a Smile on My Face; I've Got the World on a String*; My Future Just Passed; They Can't Take That away from Me; Moonglow; Time after Time; East of the Sun (and West of Moon); Destination Moon; Beautiful Friendship

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Clairdee: Destination Moon

Read "Destination Moon" reviewed by Dave Nathan


If a singer chooses to perform a program of standards in a laid back, relaxed manner, the vocalist had better have the chops to sustain slow tempos because there's nowhere to hide. One very fine singers now working out of the San Francisco area, Clairdee, pulls it off going away. With her husky, deep toned contralto, ...


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