Today, I present one more tribute to the Beatles. It is the album "Daytripper - A Beatles Tribute", by the American jazz singer, composer and arranger Deborah J. Carter, released in the Netherlands, in 2006, by Timeless Records. This same selection was re-released in 2016, in the United States, with different graphic material, by Dot Time Records.
Deborah J. Carter was born in the United States and grew up in Hawaii and Japan. She currently performs at jazz festivals, jazz clubs, seminars and radio and TV programs across Europe and Asia, with her trio or as a guest in various formations of solo pianists from large orchestras.
Her career began as a wind instrument player in Hawaii and later, as a teenager, learned music theory, arranging and composition in Japan. She then continued her studies at the prestigious Berklee College of Music.
She also serves as a jazz teacher at the Musikene Conservatory of Music in San Sebastian, Spain. school founded in 2001 by the Basque government through a private foundation.
In Spain, she collaborated on recordings with Max Sunyer, Carles Benavent and Salvador Niebla, adding vocals to her signature Mediterranean jazz brand. She also worked in theater in Madrid, then forming her own jazz quintet, participating in many jazz festivals in the main cities of the Iberian Peninsula.
In addition to working with her own group, with which she performs many of her arrangements and compositions, Deborah J. Carter also enjoys singing the great jazz classics, as guest artist of several renowned European jazz orchestras.
Some of these orchestras he participated in are: Metrópole Orchestra, HR (Frankfurt Radio), Big Band, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sedavi Latin Jazz Big Band, with Mike Mossman (arranger for Tito Puente), Berlin Jazz Orchestra, Holland Big Band, Symphony Orchestra and Big Band of the Berlin Opera, Croatia Radio and TV Orchestra, among others.
Below is a selection of Beatles songs that make up the album "Daytripper":
01. Can't buy me love;
02. And I love her;
03. Ticket to ride;
04. Yesterday;
05. (a) Daytripper / (b) Trippin (Vocalese);
06. (a) I will / (b) Here, there, and everywhere;
07. Something;
08. Fixing a hole;
09. Oh! darling;
10. Things we said today;
11. White a little help from my friends.
Links:
DEBORAH J. CARTER - DAYTRIPPER - A BEATLES TRIBUTE
TIMELESS RECORDS - HOLLAND 2006
