| Member Since | 11/12/2006 | | Band Website | hilarygardner.com | | Band Members | I've been incredibly fortunate to work with many amazing musicians, including:
Mike Longo, Valery Ponomarev, Arturo O'Farrill, Bob Dorough, Joel Frahm, Joe Cohn, Joshua Wolff, Larry Fuller, Bill Anschell, Adam Rafferty, Peter Brainin, Don Braden, Pat O'Leary, the list goes on...
I just finished a record called "A Song About Forever: Songs by Kurt Weill" with pianist and producer Frank Ponzio, bassist Peter Donovan, and drummer Vito Lesczak. | | Influences | Musical Influences:
Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O'Day, Hank Williams, Tom Waits, Patsy Cline, Irene Kral, Lee Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sarah Vaughan, Rufus Wainwright, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Francis Poulenc, Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, W.A. Mozart, Joni Mitchell, Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, Annie Ross, Aaron Copland...and a whole lot of others that I can't call to mind right this second.
Other Influences:
NEW YORK CITY, baby! And I suppose I have to also cite a childhood in Alaska as pretty friggin formative...early Catholicism and adulthood Buddhism...I've learned a lot from Dorothy Parker, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Ruth Reichl, Frances Mayes, MFK Fisher (YES, I LIVE for food and travel writing; in another life I want THAT job), Oprah (yeah, I said it--and I'm not taking it back!), When Harry Met Sally, and much of Woody Allen's early work.
Most of all:
ANYONE brave enough to express him- or herself with integrity and joy...especially my family, my friends, and the amazing musicians I am privileged to call collaborators. | | Sounds Like | Warm Vanilla Sugar | | Record Label | CAP | | Type of Label | Indie |
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