Enjoy a touching tribute to children of the world as portrayed through the loving care in songwriting and vocals of singer Brenda Alford. This former teacher of the year has appeared in John Waters’ film Hairspray and Barry Levinson’s Avalon. Currently teaching in the Miami-Dade County schools, she continues to perform as a mainstay of the South Florida Jazz scene.

Nod your head to the soulful groove as New Orleans Musician/Composer/Educator Asante Amin personifies "Love". This is a fusion of Hip Hop and Soul like none other as live instrumentation and rhymes merge in a beautiful way. As this tune opens to the excitement of cymbal crashes and unfolds into joyful harmony, Asante creates a profound moment to describe the heart of women and men.

Asante Amin · Love (Instr)

Enjoy "From Brazil to New Orleans" by Charlie Dennard who creates a joyful summer vibe based upon Brazilian songs which are envisioned in a New Orleans style of music. Charlie Dennard is an American keyboardist, composer and arranger who is currently the musical director for Cirque du Soleil's touring production "Totem". Over the last 20 years Charlie has performed and recorded internationally with a variety of jazz, blues and world music ensembles as well as theatrical productions. Dennard was a piano student of the legendary Ellis Marsalis at UNO (MM '02).

Album review courtesy of All About Jazz:

"Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist Camille Thurman is not just another girl singer accessorizing with a horn. She is a first class saxophonist that blows the proverbial roof off the place and an accomplished stylist who uses her vocal cords like she does her various woodwinds, with agility and sophistication.

Her sophomore effort Origins is a testament of her skill and talent not only as a performer but also as a composer as she penned most of the music on the record. This delightfully engaging work opens with a bang. "Forward Motion" features Thurman's brassy tenor in a witty, mercurial improvisation over drummer Rudy Royston's spare, atmospheric beats and bassist Corcoran Holt's resonant strings. Holt weaves an intense and lyrical solo around the intimate three-way conversation and his thrilling acrobatics bring the tune back to the head.


Holt's bluesy reverberations briefly take center stage in the gorgeously inventive "Indigo Moments" otherwise he lays down complex rhythms together with harmonically colorful percussionist Shirazette Tinnin. The mellifluous piece is built around Thurman's acerbic and soaring soprano sax that is the perfect foil for pianist Luis Perdomo's graceful and yearning cascade of notes.

Perdomo joins forces with another pianist the virtuosic Enoch Smith Jr. on the standard "Please Be Kind." The contrast between the two and Thurman's emotive, passionate and tad whimsical articulation of the lyrics make for a stirring and haunting interpretation of the song.

Equally ethereal is "The Dreamweaverer." Thurman's saxophone adlibs with a reserved angularity as Royston and Holt together with guest harpist Brandee Younger buoy the leader's undulating lines. Younger's inventive extemporization brims with soulful energy balancing a resonant airiness with a vibrantly organic feel.

Thurman's muscular flittering flute drops and rises over Tinnin's funk-infused, earthy beats on the Latin tinged "In Duetime." Thurman's delightful and inventive scatting echoes her bright tone and winding style on her instrument.

With the intriguing Origins Thurman reveals herself as a unique and consummate artist. Although she is at the threshold of a brilliant and promising career, this disc does more than whet the appetite for her future output. It stands on its own as a stimulating musical statement."

Track Listing: Forward Motion; A Change of Mind; Indigo Moments; Origins; The Dreamweaverer; Anna'a Joy; In Duetime; Kindred Minds;Felix's Groove; Jitterbug Waltz; Pursuit With A Purpose; Please Be Kind; Revisiting The Past.

Personnel: Personnel: Camille Thurman: tenor and soprano saxophones, flute & voice; Enoch Smith Jr.: piano; Luis Perdomo: piano; Corcoran Holt: bass; Rudy Royston: drums; Shirazette Tinnin: drums & cajon; Brandee Younger: harp.

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