Album Notes

SEPTET: Seven great musicians. Seven great songs. Deian McBryde's SEPTET. Seven great songs and seven great musicians come together for an album you'll play over and over again. Recorded in Australia during Deian's tour downunder and featuring surprisingly fresh versions of familiar standards and pop tunes. Special treats await you with "All I Wanna Do" (does anyone else even dare cover this song?) and "Je survivrai" a surprisingly tender retreatment of the disco classic. Featuring: Deian McBryde (vocals), Will Poskitt (piano), Mark Shepherd (bass), Matt Earl (drums), AdamSimmons (saxophones), Kynan Robinson (trombone) Eamon McNelis (trumpet). Produced and arranged by Deian McBryde & Adam Simmons. == 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.