Eva was a very real gifted singer lost too soon.
Live at blues alley vinyl.
I wrote the review above and this disk came up again in a conversation a few weeks ago with tenor saxophonist brice winston.
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Brice and i were in the mcdonald s jazz band in the summer of 1988 and hadn t seen each other until a concert that i attended at blues alley live near dc now where brice was with terrance blanchard.
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Recorded live at blues alley january 2 and 3 1996 except track 13 recorded at chris biondo s studio.
Blues alley has now suspended all music performances until the mayor announces the city s next phased reopening plan on october.
And blues alley was the very same place in georgetown d c that i had gone to more than 40 years ago.
What a fortuitous blessing from that book.
The original live at blues alley album only included 12 of the 31 songs recorded that night.
Chuck s star power had booked eva and the eva cassidy band into the higher profile local venues such as blues alley the barns of wolf trap the birchmere and the kennedy center.
This cd was recorded at a live performance shortly before eva s death someone s list of her best songs of that night.
Twenty years later the remastered nightbird includes all 31 songs among them 8 unreleased songs performed by eva.
The blues alley performances were recorded for what was to become eva s only solo album released during her lifetime.
Live at blues alley recorded in january of 1996 at the famous club in washington dc live of course with the eva cassidy band.
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Reviewed in the united states on december 28 2006.
Blues alley then pivoted to streamed musical entertainment as a temporary replacement and to allow our artists an opportunity to perform publicly but not as a permanent substitute for live music performances.
The original live at blues alley album cover several years had passed since the release of the other side and chuck brown had mostly returned to his go go career.