Jazz, Romance, and Passion

Jazz, Romance, and Passion

Track Listings

1. Sweet Love

2. Time After Time

3. It's Lyrical

4. When Sunny Gets Blue

5. Passport East

6. My One and Only Love

7. St. Catherine Street

8. Carmen's Tide

9. You Mean the World to Me

10. One Note Samba

11. Jazz-It Blues

12. Never Say Never

13. Red Rock Canyon

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Marcus & Lisa are an exciting duo that performs jazz, popular standards and contemporary music in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. During their last eight years together, they have played in such diverse venues as the U.S. Capitol, the Corcoran Art Gallery, foreign embassies as well as outdoor concerts, clubs, coffeehouses, and various private engagements.

Marcus Williams. While his primary instrument is guitar, Williams performs on bass guitar, piano, synthesizer and saxophone. As a bassist, he has played with a number of musical talents including Quincy Jones, Duke Ellington, Billy Taylor, Bobby Hebb, and Grady Tate as a member of the Orchestrated Crowd, a jazz orchestra in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years he has performed on a number of television and radio programs with a variety of different musicians and vocalists and has composed, arranged, and performed for documentary videos. He is responsible for the original compositions and arrangements performed by the duo.

Lisa Grant Duguid. Lisa Grant Duguid's musical talents were recognized at an early age when she performed for her mother's tea parties. She is a graduate of the prestigious High School of Music and Art in New York City. She has performed at the Apollo theater in New York City. Lisa has worked in the recording studio and has performed in a number of bands in the New York City and Washington, D.C. areas. She possesses a tremendous vocal range and stage presence.

Band Members:

Marcus Williams, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keyboards

Lisa Grant Duguid, vocals

Russel Lyles, alto saxophone (tracks 3, 4, 11)

Product Description
The selections on Jazz, Romance, & Passion are an eclectic mixture of jazz standards, world beat, rhythm and blues, and popular selections. The disc opens with "Sweet Love", originally recorded by Anita Baker. Marcus & Lisa put a jazzy, R & B spin to this hit. "Time After Time" has been performed by rock star Cindi Lauper, and jazz artists Miles Davis, and Tuck and Patti. This is a slower-paced, atmospheric version of the song. "When Sunny Gets Blue" is a jazz and pop favorite. Russel Lyles sax puts a smokey edge to it. "My One and Only Love" was done to popular acclaim by Johnny Hartmann and legendary saxophonist John Coltrane. Lisa loved it immediately when she first heard it and was thrilled to discover that the lyrics and melody were just as powerful as the instrumental portion of the song. "You Mean the World to Me" is given a jazzier feel than the stylized original by Toni Braxton. "One Note Samba" is a simple, rhytmically-driven version of Antonio Carlos Jobim's original version.

Original Selections
"Its Lyrical" has strong Brazilian influences and a steamy saxophone solo by Russell Lyles.
"Passport East" combines sounds of the Near East, the Far East, and East Africa. While Passport East has some jazz-styled improvisation, it evokes the exotic sights, smells and sounds of faraway places.
"St. Catherine Street" in Montreal comes alive at night. Teen-agers, college students, and young adults converge on the bistros, bars and clubs that flank both sides of this famous thoroghfare and its side streets. The insistent urban beat of the music reflects the multi-cultural interactions of French and English Canadians, West Indians, and Asians, as they come together on a summers evening.

"Carmen's Tide" was inspired by Carmen and the beauty of the sea and island life.
Other original selections include Jazz-It Blues, Never Say Never, and Red Rock Canyon.

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