Darden Purcell - Love's Got Me in a Lazy MoodWith Nancy Wilson & George Shearing's "The Swingin's Mutual," as a model, Washington, DC based vocalist Darden Purcell and co producer, arranger, guitarist & husband Shawn Purcell, envisioned a modern take on that quintessential 1960s sound for her third recording as a leader. Enlisting the dynamic New York vibraphonist Joe Locke, along with pianist Todd Simon, Jeff Reed on bass and drummer Todd Harrison, her sextet tackles the virtuosic soli passages

"The soundtrack features the duo's evocative

and when it speaks of the truth it transcends musical genealogy and continues a timeline from the earliest sources up to the present day

and her cell phone is her constant companion

housed in a gatefold jacket with inner sleeves showcasing each of the four EP's individual covers

Carl Rutti' choral music is 'ensuous and exuberant by turns

concerning characters who find themselves moving in and out of a virtual reality called Avalonia

the Denon sound engineers were already among the best in the world

producer (Nico

North Carolina in 1960

21 Savage - i am > i was

Hear the sounds of the gitgit (a three-stringed fiddle)

In May 2013 she obtained her Master of Performing Arts with distinction at the Hochschule fur Musik in Basle and in 2014 at the Royal Flemish Conservatoire of Brussels