Description
Christy Baron – Take This Journey / Chesky Records Audio CD 2002 / JD 239
UPC 090368023926
Christy Baron is an American jazz and pop singer and actress.
A native of Munhall, Pennsylvania, Baron is a graduate of the drama department at Carnegie Mellon University. While a student there, she performed at jazz clubs in the Pittsburgh area.
On Broadway, she portrayed Fantine in Les Miserables for six years. During her career, she has worked with David Sanborn, Natalie Cole, Carly Simon, and Dr. John.
Her acting career includes acting at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and in the feature film Pants on Fire (2000).
In 1997, a standing-room-only crowd attended Birdland jazz club when Baron and her band opened there. She has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,. and for a year she was a featured performer in the musical revue Mad Hattan in the New York New York Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Christopher Loudon, reviewing Baron's album Take This Journey for JazzTimes, wrote that her singing on the album has "an unfiltered honesty that’s as refreshing as an early morning snowfall and fulfilling as a heartfelt compliment."
| Label: | Chesky Records – JD 239 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2002 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Style: | Smooth Jazz |
Tracklist:
| 1 |
Happy Together |
|
2:59 |
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| 2 | Gentle Journey |
|
4:20 |
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| 3 | Not While I'm Around |
|
3:47 |
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| 4 | I'm All Smiles |
|
3:46 |
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| 5 | A House Is Not A Home |
|
5:45 |
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| 6 | Bitter With The Sweet |
|
2:23 |
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| 7 | That Old Devil Moon |
|
3:52 |
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| 8 | The Lies Of Handsome Men |
|
3:52 |
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| 9 | You Are There / Why Did I Choose You? |
|
5:07 |
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| 10 | The Way He Captured Me |
|
4:20 |
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| 11 | Overjoyed |
|
3:52 |
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| 12 | Stand Behind Me |
|
3:22 |
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| 13 | First Day In August |
| 3:10 |
- Bass – David Finck
- Drums – Graham Hawthorne
- Engineer [Recording] – Barry Wolifson
- Executive-Producer – Norman Chesky
- Flute – David Mann
- Guitar – Paul Bollenback
- Mastered By – Nicholas Prout
- Producer – David Chesky, David Finck
- Saxophone – David Mann
- Vocals – Christy Baron
