No Ways Tired

Deborah Davis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 9, 2003)
• Original Release Date: June 9, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Got My Own Records
• ASIN: B0001P1HQA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #919,471 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gentleman Friend

2. At The Mambo Inn

3. The Very Thought Of You

4. Dearly Beloved

5. The Kiss (original poem)

6. You Don't Know What Love Is

7. More Than You Know

8. I've Got The World On A String

9. Finally Loved (origianl poem)

10. Secret Love

11. Please Send Me Someone To Love

12. I Don't Feel No Ways Tired

Editorial Reviews

Sandra Kaye - Jazz Vocalist

No Ways Tired is one of the best albums recorded this year. I love this CD and so will you.

Product Description

Exerts from the Liner Notes by Nat Hentoff ..........

In all the arts, the writers, painters, composers who have lasted and kept on resonating in our lives have their own story to tell. A personal, and therefore, original story. Charlie Parker put it best: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man there’s no boundary line to art."

Charlie Parker was speaking about jazz horn players, but his truth applies equally to jazz singers. What you hear in Deborah Davis is the sound - a signature sound - of her experiences, in and out of music. She is a long - distance runner who has riveted audiences throughout this country, Europe and Asia. And like Bird (Mr. Parker) said, she is not limited by any boundary or category of expression, being a poet, artist, actress, dancer, lyricist, as well as unmistakably a jazz singer.

To be recognized by other musicians, and by audiences, as an authentic jazz singer, you have to possess first of all your own sound. From her roots in gospel music, blues, and jazz, she tells her stories with a disciplined personal passion, immediacy, and a mosaic of textures that are so compelling, you can still hear her after the music stops.

To express yourself in jazz time, you have to move yourself and your listeners with a flowing pulse - a beat - that is the engine of jazz. As true original, clarinetist Pee Wee Russell put it: jazz players and singers "have a heart feeling and a rhythm in their systems that you can’t budge. A rhythm you can’t take away from them even if they were in a symphony organization." That heart feeling, that rhythm wave, courses throughout Deborah Davis’ singing in this set - from the ballads to the up tempo swingers. And because that jazz time impels her improvising, she keeps surprising herself, as well as her listeners. The title of this reverberating recording, "No Ways Tired," is very much that of her own story, in sound and spirit. Deborah is indeed no ways tired, as you can hear so vividly and infectiously in this session. "Some might have given up at this point, she says. Many I know did. But I’m still here, and still believing this is what I was put on the planet to do." ! Hearing the glory of that determination, and the powerful evidence of the truth of her very reason for being, assures that this recording will always be contemporary like the testaments of all the jazz storytellers who have lasted.

Accompanying her on this set, is a rhythm section - and front line - equal to her musicianship and spontaneity. The combination of these enlivening, multiply skilled musicians with a singer who is also indeed a musician (not all singers are) make "No Ways Tired" a celebration of the resilience of the life force that is jazz.

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