Minor Swing

P. B. Flat Blues

Swinging With Django

Rose Room

Lentement mademoiselle

Stompin' At Decca

Cover "RACONTE-MOI" (by Stacey Kent)

ENCORE!

Ménilmontant

Ella Fitzgerald Vocal Jazz

Smooth Sailing

Acclaimed Americana artist Eric Brace has done many things in his career -- led roots-rock band Last Train Home for twenty years; was half the Eric Brace & Peter Cooper folk duo for the past ten years; part of the bluegrass supergroup The Skylighters (with Mike Auldridge and Jimmy Gaudreau); Grammy-nominated Childrens' Music producer (2011's "I Love: Tom T. Hall's Songs of Fox Hollow"); creator and co-writer of a musical about the California Gold Rush (2013's "Hangtown Dancehall"). But what he's never done is dig into his own family's musical past. With Cartes Postales, he explores his French roots, performing songs by Charles Trenet, Django Reinhardt, Lucienne Boyer, Yves Montand, and more, in tribute to his French father. With songs from the '20s through 2000, Cartes Postales is an evocative overview of the chansons tradition.
Joined by Rory Hoffman (on every instrument except bass and drums), a sublime (and blind)multi-instrumentalist who can play guitar, clarinet, accordion, harmonica, piano, banjo, saxophone, and dozens more instruments better than just about anyone. A true musical genius, Rory brings Parisian flair to the songs, despite growing up in South Dakota.

Cartes Postales  

Petite Fleur

Mangoes: Musical Shorts Volume 1 is a sonically eclectic collection of brief, acoustic, folk-based, mostly instrumental pieces that showcase Moyer's abilities as a composer and multi-instrumentalist bridging Eastern and Western musical traditions. It was recorded in a 100-yr-old Chinese attic in the village of Zhujiajiao in the suburbs of Shanghai during Moyer's residency at the Shanghai-Zhujiajiao Water Village World Music Festival. Moods range from meditative gong music and erhu smooth jazz to groovy hand drumming, bossa nova and raw folk fiddling. Track 10, ZJJ 4 Seasons - a traditional folk song - features local singer Yang Guanghua.

All music composed and arranged by Jeremy Moyer except: 'ZJJ 4 Seasons' - traditional folk song

All instrumental and vocal performances by Jeremy Moyer except:
surdo on 'Fishing Secrets' and quica on 'FPS Fanfare' performed by Leonardo Susi; trumpet and trombone on 'FPS Fanfare' performed by JQ Whitcomb and Hu Qingwen; vocal on 'ZJJ 4 Seasons' performed by Yang Guanghua.

Recorded by Jeremy Moyer at Shanghai-Zhujiajiao World Music Centre

Mixed and Mastered by J. Richard Hutt, assisted by Ron Chilton, at Cedartree, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Graphic design by Jeremy Moyer and Joanna Mazur

Produced by Jeremy Moyer

Fishing Secrets 釣魚祕方

Swinging With Django

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