Bremner Fletcher Duthie: Get Music

‘The Sky Was Blue’ is like a big old brass bed – a well pounded mattress of bouncy jazz springs, a colourful quilt of pop twang, and a fluffy feather pillow of Sixties soul.

‘The Sky Was Blue’, was recorded at the Bop-City Studios in Paris and pulls in some of the City of Lights most celebrated young jazz talents.  Tommaso Montagnani’s fluid bass carries the band's performances to another level. Pianist Remi Amblard’s contributes his years of playing for French chanson singers. Thierry Tardieu, from Madagascar, brought his long history working in Brazilian bands, while Benoit Gil offered his history of blues and rock guitar.  They created new arrangements for jazz standards like ‘Lover Come Back to Me’ or ‘Whisper Not’, and also for songs by the Velvet Underground,  Joni Mitchell and even the Talking Heads and pop composer Ron Sexsmith. It’s a gritty, sometimes fragile homage to a set of extraordinary songs.

Warning - if you’re a fan of Michael Buble’s style of smooth jazz, this album is probably not for you.

Bremner Sings Kurt Weill 

Intimate takes on Kurt Weill's cabaret songs, from dark 1930s Berlin to the shining lights of Broadway: 'A fresh, dark take on music from 1930s Berlin and Broadway, bitingly contemporary and often surprising.' -- Music and Media Magazine.  Features 14 tracks with songs from Weill's early works with Brecht to his last unfinished Broadway show: Huck Finn.

The pianist is the wonderful Stan Cramer.

FEATURING:
Mack The Knife 
(lyrics by Bertold Brecht, from Three Penny Opera)

Youkali
(lyrics by Rodger Fernay)

Bilbao Song
(lyrics by Bertold Brecht, from Happy End)

You Gentlemen Who Think You have a Mission
(lyrics by Bertold Brecht, from Three Penny Opera)

Alabama Song
(lyrics by Bertold Brecht, from Mahagonny)

I'm a Stranger Here Myself
(lyrics by Odgen Nash, from One Touch of Venus)

Je ne t'aime pas
(lyrics by Maurice Magre)

Lost in the Stars
(lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and Alan Paton, from Lost in the Stars)

My Ship.
(lyrics by Ira Gershwin, from Lady in the Dark)

Speak Low
(lyrics by Ogden Nash, from One Touch of Venus)

The Song of the Big Shot
(lyrics by Bertold Brecht, from Happy End)

Nowhere to Go But Up
(lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, from Knickerbocker Holiday)

Apple Jack (backing vocals: Stan Cramer)
(lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, from Huck Finn)

Moon Faced Starry Eyed
(Lyrics by Langston Hughes, from Streetscene) 

One Life to Live
(lyrics by Ira Gershwin, from Lady in the Dark)