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Track Listing:

1
Bye Bye Blackbird
 
2
I Wished On the Moon
 
3
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
 
4
In the Indigo
 
5
On A Clear Day, You Can See Forever
 
6
Cry Me A River
 
7
Great Indoors
 
8
Surprised By the Morning
 
9
I'm Pulling Through
 
10
Blue Skies
 
11
Reach For Tomorrow
 

Nancy Harms :

In the Indigo

Vocalist Nancy Harms, an artist who has a startlingly original conception and presentation of Jazz is pleased to announce the release of her debut CD, In The Indigo. Produced by Robert Bell, with additional vocal direction and creative consultation by Arne Fogel, In The Indigo features an entirely new take on the jazz standard. In addition to reworking some of the most beloved tunes from the American Songbook, there are also two original works; The adventurous "Surprised By The Morning" by Harms and bassist Michael O'Brien, and the title song, written by Harms in collaboration with Bell and Fogel. All are performed by Harms in a supple, stylish voice that has been described by critics as "languorously seductive".

Accompanying Harms on the album are pianist, Tanner Taylor, Graydon Peterson on bass, and drummer Jay Epstein, and this wonderful rhythm section is augmented by trumpet master Kelly Rossum along a handful of other superlative sidemen. Producer Bell sits in on guitar for a couple of tunes, including an inspired re-working of John Mayer's "Great Indoors," as the arrangements are divided up by Bell, Harms, and Taylor.

The message of In The Indigo centers around the conflict of life wherein we sometimes settle for the "inevitable", all the while grappling with the notion that there is something else out there waiting for us. Within the great variety of music on: In The Indigo is this deeper context unifying the album. The songs were carefully selected to delineate the positive turning points in life where the darkness of adversity and despair is conquered by the light, the new day, and the blue sky... The Indigo. Whether reflected in the sunny affirmation of the title song, or in the message of Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies", with Harms original verse, or as embodied in "Cry Me A River", Arthur Hamilton's timeless anthem of emotional revenge. The essential message is the same: If you've suffered the darkest of nights, the light of day is that much sweeter.