(Jazz, Vocal Jazz) Kathy Sanborn - Six Degrees of Cool (Pacific Coast Jazz [829166356420]) - 2012, MP3, 320 kbps

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Kathy Sanborn (born January 16) is an American jazz vocalist, pianist, and composer based in San Francisco, California. Originally from Los Angeles, Sanborn graduated magna cum laude from the California State University, Sacramento. Stylistically, Sanborn has been compared with 1950s cool jazz singers Anita O’Day, Chris Connor, and June Christy, due to her smooth, velvet vocals and clear diction.
A trained pianist, Sanborn creates both music and lyrics for her projects. Sanborn’s albums include both jazz instrumental and vocal songs. Her 2011 project, Blues for Breakfast, features a song dedicated to the jazz masters of old, such as innovative trumpeter Miles Davis. Adding musical contributions to Blues for Breakfast are renowned GRAMMY® nominee bassist Scott Petito, drummer Chris Carey, and trumpeter Wayne Ricci. JazzTimes on Sanborn's work: "Romance is always in the air as far as Kathy Sanborn is concerned, and her songs are reflections of those emotions which take flight when overpowered by love."
Sanborn is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and Broadcast Music, Inc., and her biography is profiled in Who's Who in America.

American female jazz vocalist, pianist, and composer Kathy Sanborn performs with an elegance that can take your breath away.
Kathy's latest album, Six Degrees of Cool, recently reached Amazon's Vocal Jazz Bestseller list, and Amazon's Vocal Jazz Hot New Releases list!
As part of the newest generation of jazz performers, Sanborn incorporates jazz traditions into the modern era - with marvelous results.
“Kathy Sanborn is able to convey emotional truths with a sound no one else can produce--a quavering joy that works equally well over an ocean or acoustic chords of ballads. No one else sings like that.”
~National News Bureau
"Steamy . . . Classic jazz with a torchlight finish . . . a jacuzzi for the ears."
~JazzTimes
"Kathy's voice truly is a gift from the heavens."
~Eric Cohen, radio station WAER 88.3, New York
Drawing from renowned influences such as Cool Jazz giants Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and Anita O’Day, Six Degrees of Cool brings Cool Jazz into today’s contemporary music scene.
Sanborn says her latest release, Six Degrees of Cool, may remind you of the “West Coast Jazz” phenomenon of the 50s and 60s, complete with smooth, clear vocals and cool trumpet provided by Wayne Ricci. But Sanborn’s new album is not your mother’s jazz music; Sanborn composes jazz for today’s listener, with fresh lyrics and melodies for the modern era.
Six Degrees of Cool has something for every jazz lover, even social commentary. Packing a punch on the nature of economic hard times are Bitter Winter and Shanty Man, the last a song describing the effects on a family in the great Depression of the 1930s.
The title track, Six Degrees of Cool, is the one instrumental on the album, and features trumpeter Wayne Ricci.
Six Degrees of Cool is the follow-up album release to Sanborn’s critically acclaimed album, Blues for Breakfast. Released in 2011, Blues for Breakfast reached #4 on Amazon’s MP3 Vocal Jazz charts.