Fred Farell – Distant Song (2018) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

“Distant Song” (subtitled as “Fred Farell sings the music of Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach”) is a contemporary jazz album consisting of jazz infused with gospel messaging. Featuring jazz singer Fred Farell, this album provides listeners with a compilation of easy-listening. Farell’s passion can be heard in tracks like Sunday Song, Places, and Forgotten Fantasie.

As a featured soloist and ensemble singer, Fred Farell has made a name for himself as a preeminent pro jazz voice. Across five decades and at venues as esteemed and diverse as Avery Fisher Hall, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Museum of Modern Art, Farell has demonstrated inspired interpretive abilities to go with his heartfelt lyricism and sweet pipes. Distant Song, his debut for Whaling City Sound, a home for much quality jazz, is a profound experience, thanks partly due to his composers and loyal accompanists saxophonist Dave Liebman and piano/keys player Richie Beirach, both of whom have collaborated on the original music for this record. Farell own wordsmithing is sublime, requiring deftness, patience and passion on the microphone. His compositions unfold gently, religiously. Infused with sacred messaging, Distant Song is an emotional project art, jazz, part spiritual, part loving experiment, produced with happiness and love by a veteran talent clearly confident and at peace with himself and his abilities.

Tracklist:
01 – Broken Wing
02 – Lonnie’s Song
03 – Forgotten Fantasies
04 – Leaving
05 – Tomorrow’s Expectations
06 – Sunday Song
07 – Mitsuku
08 – Zal
09 – Places
10 – Distant Song

Produced by Fred Farell. Engineered by Kent Heckman.
Recorded on June 10 & 11, 2015 by Kent Heckman at Red Rock Recording, Saylosburg, PA.

Musicians:
Fred Farell – vocals
Richie Beirach – piano
Dave Liebman – soprano & tenor saxophone

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