AVAILABLE TOMORROW:
VOCALIST ALEX PANGMAN SHOWS
HER LOVE OF SWING ERA ON LATEST RELEASE,
HAVE A LITTLE FUN, VIA JUSTIN TIME RECORDS
Featuring Legendary Guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli
"As salutes to Depression-era swing go, it's hard to imagine
a more authentic, or more delightful, evocation." - JazzTimes
Justin Time Records is proud to release vocalist Alex Pangman's new album, Have a Little Fun (available tomorrow, June 11). The album features legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and is her second release for the Canadian music label.
Have a Little Fun finds
the young Toronto chanteuse on a baker's dozen of swing era standards
and originals penned in the same vintage style. Along with Pizzarelli, a
seven-decade veteran who's played with Les Paul, Benny Goodman, and
Stephane Grappelli, Pangman is joined by her long-running band, The Alleycats.
Since
her teens, Pangman has earned a devoted following in her native Canada,
garnering three National Jazz Award nominations, twice as "Jazz
Vocalist of the Year" and once for "Best Original Song," and she has
performed three showcases at the renowned Festival International de Jazz
de Montréal.
The
carefree attitude expressed in the title has been earned in part
through Pangman's lifelong struggle with lung disease, which culminated
in a successful double lung transplant in 2008. "I was born with lung
disease so I've always had that perspective," she says, "but it's been
freshly reinvigorated. Life is precious, and if you sit around with your
gut in a twist, it's really not worth it."
Have a Little Fun came
together quickly, when Pangman learned that Pizzarelli would be
performing in her hometown of Toronto. Despite a half-century's
difference in their ages, the two quickly bonded over their shared love
of 1930s song. "He's in his eighties and I'm in my thirties," Pangman
says, "but we quickly became friends because we both love these melodies
and these songs. That lineage is what binds us together."
Pangman
has been christened "Canada's Sweetheart of Swing," a title threatened
when her cystic fibrosis began to compromise her ability to sing. A
donor was fortuitously located, and she came back from her double lung
transplant with her 2011 disc 33.
Since the surgery, Pangman says, Have a Little Fun has
taken hold as "my mantra in life. You can have a million smackers and a
fancy car, but if you're not having any fun, what's the point? You're
not here forever, so try to enjoy yourself."
Alex Pangman· Have a Little Fun
Justin Time Records · Release Date: June 11, 2013
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