Memories of Love's Refrain

Memories of Love's Refrain

Track Listings

1. Stardust

2. Undecided

3. When I Grow Too Old To Dream

4. It Had To Be You

5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

6. Moonlight Becomes You

7. Small Fry

8. Bye Bye Blackbird

Editorial Reviews
Green Mountain Jazz Messenger
"She clearly loves what she does, and her passion is infectious. This music is romantic and artfully presented.”

Product Description
Patty Carpenter’s latest recording brings into harmony her love of good, hard-swinging jazz, her appreciation for the song writing craft, and the pleasures of her daytime job, singing for senior citizens throughout New England.

Patty has a strong, clear and wonderfully buoyant trumpet-like voice and an affinity for long, swinging straight-ahead lines, like those of her favorite tenor saxophonists John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, and Wayne Shorter. She also has an ear for the emotional content of the lyrics. She sings to tell a story and find meaning in the words. “Memories of Love’s Refrain” is taken from a line in Hoagy Carmichael’s famous “Stardust”. It’s a favorite with her senior audiences who confide to Patty that they “fell in love” to that song.

Patty takes a special delight in singing for seniors. “Seniors are a hip audience,” Patty says. “They know good music. They grew up listening to swing bands and know all the standards. Playing for them can be a wonderfully moving experience. It’s like transporting them back to their youth.”

In the jazz studies program at the University of Massachusetts, Patty studied with tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp and bassist Reggie Workman. Workman told her, “if you want to sing the music, learn its history,” which Patty did. There’s a lot of Miles Davis’ bittersweet blues in her version of “Bye Bye Blackbird”, and Billie Holiday-like behind-the-beat phrasing in “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love,” and the other up tempo numbers.

Whether you swooned to Sinatra or jitterbugged to Goodman, Miller, the Dorseys, and Count Basie, whether you are a twenty or thirty-something, a teenage slacker, a generation “x-er”, or a baby boomer like Patty, you are sure to be touched by “Memories of Love’s Refrain” and the marvelous, lyrical singing of Patty Carpenter.

Memories of Love's Refrain

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