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Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz, Gary Versace

The Subject Tonight Is Love

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Kate McGarry - Keith Ganz - Gary Versace - The Subject Tonight Is Love
Kate McGarry Trio performs at WBGO
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02/02/2018 - The Velvet Note / Alpharetta, GA
02/03/2018 - The Velvet Note / Alpharetta, GA
02/14/2018 - Jazz Standard / New York, NY
02/17/2018 - The Sharp Nine Gallery / Durham, NC
02/18/2018 - The Sharp Nine Gallery / Durham, NC
05/31/2018 - Lensic Performing Arts Center / Santa Fe, NM
06/27/2018 - Rochester Jazz Festival / Rochester, NY
1 Prologue - The Subject Tonight Is Love
2 Secret Love
3 Climb Down - Whiskey You're The Devil
4 Gone With the Wind
5 Fair Weather
6 Playing Palhacu
7 Losing Strategy
8 My Funny Valentine
9 Mr. Sparkle - What A Difference A Day Made
10 She Always Will The River
11 Indian Summer
12 Epilogue - All You Need Is Love
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Countless poets, philosophers, artists, musicians, writers and dreamers have taken up that same subject since Hafiz's day, but despite seven intervening centuries of exploration, love continues to offer an inexhaustible supply of complexities and mysteries. On The Subject Tonight Is Love, their first album as a trio, vocalist Kate McGarry, guitarist/bassist Keith Ganz and keyboardist/accordionist Gary Versace rise to that eternal challenge, investigating the concept of love in its many forms and from several different perspectives over the course of a dozen alluring songs, from timeless folk tunes to transformed jazz standards, celebratory pop songs to evocative originals.

  • Jazz Society presents Kate McGarry / Napa Valley Register
    Posted At: January 22, 2020 12:00 AM

    The Napa Valley Jazz Society begins its second decade of live performances by leading jazz artists with a performance by vocalist Kate McGarry. The 2019 Grammy nominee for Best Jazz Vocal CD will appear with guitarist Keith Ganz and his trio at Blue Note on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 4 p.m. Kate McGarry has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Birdland, the Newport Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Fest...
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  • Coltrane, Elling, and McGarry/Ganz/Versace make Jazz History Online's 'best recordings of 2018'
    Posted At: January 10, 2019 12:00 AM

    Well, it looks like we've survived another year. 2018 may have been less fun than 2017 (or the end of 2016 for that matter) but our beloved music is still alive and well--despite the ravings of certain uninformed critics. CDs are still around, along with vinyl (and now, cassettes too?) while digital downloads may be losing favor. Predicting the future of the music industry is almost as difficult as f...
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  • Coltrane, Elling, McGarry make Windsor Star '2018's jazz list bliss'
    Posted At: December 31, 2018 12:00 AM

    Included on the ballot that the Windsor Star's Peter Hum submitted to the Francis Davis/6th Annual NPR Jazz Critics Poll was John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse! Records) for 'Top three reissues or historical albums,' and both Kurt Elling, The Questions (OKeh/Sony Masterworks) & Kate McGarry, The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown Records) for 'The year...
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  • 90.1WUSB sits down with Kate McGarry to discuss - The Subject Tonight Is Love
    Posted At: May 3, 2018 12:00 AM

    Countless poets, philosophers, artists, musicians, writers and dreamers have taken up that same subject since Hafiz's day, but despite seven intervening centuries of exploration, love continues to offer an inexhaustible supply of complexities and mysteries. On The Subject Tonight Is Love, their first album as a trio, vocalist Kate McGarry, guitarist/bassist Keith Ganz and keyboardist/accordionist Gar...
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  • McGarry,Ganz,Versace. A unique combination of innocence and emotional depth / Jazzhistoryonline
    Posted At: March 19, 2018 12:00 AM

    The booklet photos for Kate McGarry's new CD "The Subject Tonight is Love" show her, guitarist Keith Ganz and keyboardist Gary Versace in a living room, making music for their own enjoyment. The music contained on the disc carries the same intimacy one might find at a house concert, where a small audience provides the necessary energy to inspire the performers to greater heights. McGarry's variations on ...
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  • McGarry,Ganz,Versace - The Subject Tonight Is Love / Jazz Podium Magazine
    Posted At: March 19, 2018 12:00 AM

    Countless poets, philosophers, artists, musicians, writers and dreamers have taken up that same subject since Hafiz's day, but despite seven intervening centuries of exploration, love continues to offer an inexhaustible supply of complexities and mysteries. On The Subject Tonight Is Love, their first album as a trio, vocalist Kate McGarry, guitarist/bassist Keith Ganz and keyboardist/accordionist Gar...
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  • Durham-based trio explores romance, partnership and self-love with WUNC: The State of Things
    Posted At: February 16, 2018 12:00 AM

    In the past few years, Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Kate McGarry, Keith Ganz and Gary Versace all wanted a break from the chaos of modern American politics and world events. As the Durham-based trio headed into the studio to record new songs, they quickly noticed an emerging theme in their music: love. The album that originated from those sessions is aptly called "The Subject Tonight Is Love." It expl...
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  • Today, the subject is the enchanting Kate McGarry / the arts fuse
    Posted At: February 14, 2018 12:00 AM

    Today the subject is the enchanting Kate McGarry, a singer perhaps not as widely known as some of her fellow Grammy-nominated jazz vocalists, but whose critically acclaimed albums and performances place her at the top of her field. In six previous releases, McGarry has brought her signature warmth and intelligence to music that's meant the most to her, from folk classics to show tunes, jazz standards and...
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  • A conversation with Kate McGarry & Keith Ganz on 'Straight No Chaser' podcast
    Posted At: February 13, 2018 12:00 AM

    With six critically acclaimed CDs and a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal CD Kate McGarry has become recognized as a jazz artist who brings authenticity and vitality to every song regardless of genre. Downbeat Magazine cited McGarry as 'Rising Star' vocalist for the past 9 years, including a recent  #1 Rising Star Female Vocalist. In addition to her own work, her 2013 collaboration with ...
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  • From infatuation to disillusion, The Subject Tonight is Love / WBGO
    Posted At: February 13, 2018 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} Kate McGarry wasn't kidding when she named her new album The Subject Tonight is Love. A product of her working trio with guitarist Keith Ganz and keyboardist Gary Versace, it's a reflection on the many states of love, from infatuation to disillusion. For our purposes here, the obvious choice is "My Funny Valent...
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  • Kate McGarry - The Subject Tonight Is Love on Valentine's edition of Public Radio Tulsa: All This Jazz
    Posted At: February 9, 2018 12:00 AM

    Tune in for the next broadcast of All This Jazz, starting at 9pm on Saturday the 10th, right here on KWGS-FM / Public Radio Tulsa. It'll be three solid hours of can't-miss modern jazz -- all of it introduced, contextualized, and lovingly selected by an actual person (i.e., not an algorithm).... And in the third and theme-driven hour of our show -- with Valentine's Day just around the corn...
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  • Kate McGarry Trio examines the Valentine's phenomenon at The Jazz Standard / The New Yorker
    Posted At: February 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    No self-respecting jazz club would have passed on the opportunity to book a Valentine's Day gig with this trio-vocalist McGarry, guitarist Ganz, and keyboardist Versace-whose new album, "The Subject Tonight Is Love," examines the titular phenomenon through diverse song. Flitting from standards to adaptations of the Sufi poet Hafiz to heartfelt McGarry originals, the triumvirate ponders age-old mysteries ...
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  • McGarry, Versace and Ganz is the height of jazz art / Ottawa Citizen
    Posted At: February 5, 2018 12:00 AM

    The most natural thing in the world for a jazz singer to do is to sing a love song. The Great American Songbook is full of great ones - love songs that gush, love songs that lament, songs about love that shines, love that endures, love that went wrong, love that wasn't returned. But to sing love songs as well as Kate McGarry does is another matter entirely. And then, to collect a diverse set of love song...
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  • Kate McGarry may have outshone herself on 'The Subject Tonight Is Love' / HOTHOUSE
    Posted At: February 2, 2018 12:00 AM

    A singer long renowned for her subtle vocal touch, sensitive phrasing and insistence on tapping into the story embedded in every song she sings, vocalist Kate McGarry may nevertheless have outshone herself on her latest release, the crowd-sourced and self-released The Subject Tonight Is Love. Conceived in a collective trio comprising Kate, guitarist Keith Ganz and keyboardist Gary Versace,...
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  • Kate McGarry on The Paul Leslie Hour
    Posted At: January 31, 2018 12:00 AM

    Kate McGarry is a jazz vocalist and songwriter. Called "a voice that soars with abundant hope," she joins us to talk about her first trio album, The Subject Tonight is Love.  McGarry and her collaborators Keith Ganz and Gary Versace will be celebrating the release of the album with a performance at The Velvet Note in Alpharetta, Georgia on February 2nd and 3rd. Future performances will be held in Ne...
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  • McGarry,Ganz,Versace - The Subject Tonight Is Love / The New York City Jazz Record
    Posted At: January 29, 2018 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} Countless poets, philosophers, artists, musicians, writers and dreamers have taken up that same subject since Hafiz's day, but despite seven intervening centuries of exploration, love continues to offer an inexhaustible supply of complexities and mysteries. On The Subject Tonight Is Love, their first a...
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  • McGarry,Ganz,Versace are ideally suited for investigations of the heart / all about jazz
    Posted At: January 27, 2018 12:00 AM

    The ancient Greeks spoke of love's many forms, codifying and distilling the essence of every one in detailed thought and language. Each of those documented variants rightly differs from the others, yet the keen mind can certainly discern that all of them basically stem from the same roots: connectivity and understanding. In something of a musical parallel, this outing presents as an exploration, cata...
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  • An enchanting new album by the Kate McGarry Trio, 'The Subject Tonight is Love' / WBGO
    Posted At: January 26, 2018 12:00 AM

    Kate McGarry has been singing all of her life. She grew up in a family with 10 kids, and they all sang all the time. She eventually studied jazz at UMass-Amherst. Archie Shepp was one of her mentors, and the roiling heart one hears in Shepp's '60s albums can also be heard in McGarry's singing. She sings around a melody like a saxophonist. She dances through the harmony. She twists and whirls ...
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  • MOSS with WMU residency stops by WMUK: Kalamazoo - Jazz Currents
    Posted At: January 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    MOSS is probably best described as a collaborative project rather than a band. It brings together five top contemporary vocalists to create, in a short space of time, song arrangements that draw from a wide palette of styles and techniques. Each of the five - Jo Lawry, Lauren Kinhan, Kate McGarry, Theo Bleckmann, and Peter Eldridge - have unique talents and directions: Kinhan and Eldridge are part of New...
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