Album Notes

Do yourself a favor and take the time to check out Sandy Staley's CD "Everything I Love". You will be glad you did. Sandy's seasoned voice and performance has a depth that only having 60+ years in the business can create. This CD was recorded "live" in the studio, with only strings overdubbed. Almost every song were first takes. "Everything I Love" features some of Pittsburgh's greatest jazz players and swings like crazy.

Vocalist Rebecca Parris says:
I hope more and more people understand the joy I feel listening to this CD. It embodies all the things I love about Sandy; her spirit, her softness, her integrity, her musicality. Her deep swing, her love for the music and the people who really listen. Her respect for her predecessors, her sense of humor, her taste for amazing musicians. It is impeccable, a joy, the Christmas present I've been waiting for ever since the day I met her. She ROCKS! She RULES! She's KILLER-DILLER ROO! I'm so grateful to everyone that made this CD possible and I thank God for Sandy Staley! THE REAL JAZZ DAME! BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA

Rebecca Parris

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Sandy began singing and learned many of favorite songs with her Father's Dixieland Band at age four. She studied piano for 11 years with Ethel Ramos Harris. Sandy attended Indiana State Teachers College. She has taught vocals at Duquesne University and The University of Pittsburgh.

Her variety of talents has allowed her to perform musical comedy for two years with Bob Trow and Gene Ray. Recently, she played the role of Dolly in "Hello Dolly" in Pittsburgh. Sandy has lent her voice to numerous radio and television commercials and co-hosted on several radio programs. She is at home equally performing solo or with a 17-piece orchestra.

Opening act for:

* Cal Tjader
* Woody Herman Orchestra
* Monte Alexander
* M. J. Q.
* Maureen McGovern

Performed with:

* Wynton Kelly
* Warren Vache
* Scott Hamilton
* Howard Alden
* Billy Eckstine
* Rebecca Parris
* Carmen Bradford
* Mark Levine
* Bobby Hackett
* Joe Negri
* Olympia Brass Band of New Orleans

Received Jazz Vocal Legacy Award from the Alle-Kiski Historical Society.
Inducted into Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Fame by Pittsburgh
Jazz Society, Tony Mowod, Pres.