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Gia Notte

Shades

By Gia Notte

Label: Gnote Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Caravan; Speak Low; Close Your Eyes; My Funny Valentine; Since I Fell For You; The Look Of Love; Love Me Or Leave Me; Autumn Leaves; I Wish You Love; Lover Come Back To Me; It Don't Mean A Thing; What'll I Do.

Gia Notte: Shades

by C. Michael Bailey
September 9, 2010

Easy, effortless, breezy, and boundless: a few words to describe Gia Notte's approach to the standards. Shades, from beginning to end, displays an intention to recast standards in a different light. Not a bone-jarring different light, just one that is informative and thoughtfully conceived. Longtime Chet Baker ballad vehicle, “My Funny Valentine," is a case in ...

Gia Notte: Shades

by Woodrow Wilkins
March 28, 2010

A glance at the set list for Gia Notte's Shades might initially elicit concern about another album of standards. However, fresh arrangements, a solid band, and a charming voice can make a tremendous difference between a ho-hum effort and something that warrants attention. Notte, born Margie but using the nickname Gia, began with piano ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: February 22, 2010

March 2, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 1 Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 233 247 -14 0 56 1 7 2 1 3 Ahmad Jamal A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 221 257 -36 4 63 1 5 3 3 8 John Stein Raising The Roof (Whaling City Sound) 194 182 ...

Gia Notte: Shades

by Dan Bilawsky
February 17, 2010

Margie “Gia" Notte's debut recording, Just You, Just Me & Friends--Live at Cecil's, (GNote Records, 2009) was an exciting standards-based journey. Her follow-up, Shades, also finds her interpreting some well-worn songs but the delivery and the arrangements make this more than a run-of-the-mill recording. While the adrenaline-fueled excitement from her live recording is hard to match ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: January 18, 2010

January 26, 2010

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 26 — Steve Hobbs Vibes, Straight Up (Challenge) 197 79 +118 18 49 1 2 2 6 13 Roni Ben-Hur Fortuna (Motema) 174 157 +17 3 48 2 10 3 5 11 The Mike Longo Trio Sting Like A Bee (CAP) 152 159 -7 ...