Artist: Joyce Cooling
Album: Keeping Cool
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Label: Heads Up International
Released: 1999
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Callie 3:37
- Want To Coast?
- Coasting 3:38
- Ain't Life Grand? 4:29
- Out Of A Movie 2:35
- Before Dawn 4:39
- China Basin 4:03
- Simple Kind Of Love 3:33
- Little Five Points 5:05
- Gliding By 6:36
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- Personnel:
- Joyce Cooling - guitars/vocals
- Jay Wagner - keyboards/vocals/programming
- Garry Calvin - bass
- Billy Johnson - drums
- Peter Michael Escovedo 3 - percussion
The Keeping Cool repertoire includes the funk-driven “China Basin,” an ode to the old shipyard neighborhood in San Francisco, featuring Cooling’s smooth scatting; the heavy-grooving “Cali,” a tribute to a recently-departed friend who loved to dance; and the playful vibe of “Ain’t Life Grand,” which draws from Cooling’s lifelong passion for the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jazz, blues and soul blend in the mid-tempo “Coasting,” while orchestral touches color the acoustic ballad “Out of a Movie,” a rubato (no strict time) piece that explores Cooling’s and Wagner’s fascination for European movie themes.
A longtime favorite of Bay Area jazz fans, Cooling gained the national spotlight when Playing It Cool captured and held the #1 slot on both Gavin and Radio & Records smooth jazz chart for five consecutive weeks. She was subsequently named Best New (Smooth Jazz) Talent by the Jazziz magazine annual reader’s poll, was a nominee for Gavin’s Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year award, and was selected Artist of the Year by nationally syndicated radio show Jazz Trax.