Various Artists – Lives of the Saints – Portraits in Song with Words by David Hajdu (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Various Artists – Lives of the Saints – Portraits in Song with Words by David Hajdu (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:47 minutes | 884 MB | Genre: Jazz
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When writer-producer David Hajdu was growing up, he was drawn to a mystical book on his mother’s shelf entitled Lives of the Saints. This was a collection of tales of Catholic saints and their heroic martyrdom. Later in life, Hajdu began to collect his own stories of ordinary individuals who, through their deeds, attained exalted status in his mind, essentially created his own canon of secular saints.For his new recording, which borrows the same title, Lives of the Saints, Hajdu enlists an assemblage of first-tier composers and performers to tell the stories of ten remarkable people from history, all of whom happen to be women. Women who did extraordinary things but suffered in some ways for what did or what they believed.

Hajdu has been writing songs about real-life figures and events for unique collaborations with jazz composers and performers for more than 15 years. Lives of the Saints is his fourth recording of such material. Viewing contemporary songwriting as autobiographical to a fault, Hajdu looks beyond his own experience for inspiration, bringing himself to the material through his idiosyncratic approach to language and creative collaboration.

Tracklist:

1-1. Aubrey Johnson – Enchantress of Number (for Ada Lovelace) (06:52)
1-2. Aubrey Johnson – Angelina’s Cry (for Angelina Napolitano) (03:34)
1-3. Aubrey Johnson – Weathered the Storm (for Lena Horne) (06:23)
1-4. Aubrey Johnson – The Seafaring Maiden (for Bessie Hall) (02:49)
1-5. Aubrey Johnson – The White Rose (for Sophie Scholl) (04:35)
1-6. Aubrey Johnson – Pure Thought (for Hypatia) (04:46)
1-7. Aubrey Johnson – Pretty Brilliant (for Hedy Lamarr) (03:37)
1-8. Aubrey Johnson – The Nanny on Her Day Off (for Vivian Maier) (05:13)
1-9. Aubrey Johnson – The Conjurer (for Leonora Carrington) (07:10)
1-10. Aubrey Johnson – Song for My Sister (for Barbara Ann Hajdu) (03:43)

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