Album Notes

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The third CD from award-winning American vocalist, DEIAN McBRYDE. Recorded on 31 Oct 2002 in Melbourne, Australia. Featuring Australian musicians ADAM SIMMONS, saxophones; WILL POSKITT, piano; MARK SHEPHERD, bass; and MATT EARL, drums.

The band won a Melbourne Fringe Festival Award and co-producers DEIAN McBRYDE and ADAM SIMMONS received the coveted Australian Green Room Award for best musical direction for the music from this CD in sold out shows at Melbourne' famed La Mama Theatre

DEIAN McBRYDE and ADAM SIMMONS met in 2001 when both artists received prestigious international residency fellowships from Music/OMI in Hudson, New York. They reconnected in Australia as collaborators and co-producers of a show for the Melbourne Fringe Festival, for which they received their first award before going on to a win in the Green Room Awards. With a background in cabaret, McBryde brings his sense of intimacy with an audience. Co-producer and bandleader Simmons brings his formidable knowledge of jazz and improvisation. Both artists are great showman and honest communicators with "something to say."

Enjoy the album with your shoes off. Dance in your kitchen or wrap yourself up in a warm blanket. Spend one day with Deian McBryde and company, One Day in Melbourne.

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An award winning vocalist and producer, Deian McBryde has entertained the good people of the US, Canada, Europe, Russia and Australia as a solo artist and with his band, The Pretty Girl Orchestra.

He is an independent musician (that means "starving artist") but stays happy making recordings and live performances. Deian started performing as a child in small churches in his hometown of Albuquerque and continues to bring his sense of church gospel to his jazz standard and improvisational shows today.

The only Hispanic, straight-ahead, jazz vocalist in New York City (really?), Deian has received a prestigious Music Omi International Music Residency Fellowship and has won two Australian Green Room Awards, an OMA Award and other good stuff while still waiting to be a household name.