Rick Stephenson

Rick Stephenson – From One Blue Eyes to Another 25th Anniversary Edition (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:50 minutes | 544 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Binky Records

Traditional New Orleans jazz is band music characterized by a front line usually consisting of cornet (or trumpet), clarinet, and trombone engaging in polyphony with varying degrees of improvisation (without distorting the melody) and driven by a rhythm section consisting of piano (although rarely before 1915), guitar (or, later, banjo), bass (or tuba), and drums delivering syncopated rhythms for dancing (usually, but not always, in common or 4/4 time).
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Rick Stephenson – Reflections in the Wee Small Hours (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:36 minutes | 1,95 GB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Oldies
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rick Stephenson

It has been a busy year for local Kingsville singer and musician Rick Stephenson and it’s set to get even busier! In May, Rick released his fourth album Reflections In The Wee Small Hours. He recorded it as a tribute to one of his favourites, Frank Sinatra’s classic In The Wee Small Hours. Rick referred to it as his “labour of love,” a fresh and modern approach to the original 1955 album by Sinatra.

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