Both Sides Now Marjorie Barnes, Millennium Jazz Orchestra & Joan Reinders

• 1 Soon 02:40
• 2 I Haven't Got Anything Better 05:37
• 3 Moon River 03:41
• 4 Something to Live For 04:24
• 5 Detour Ahead 05:22
• 6 Never Will I Marry 02:46
• 7 A Sleepin' Bee 05:02
• 8 Smile 04:11
• 9 That's All 03:44
• 10 Both Sides Now 05:37
• 11 I Will Wait for You 03:40
• 12 How Do You Keep the Music Playing? 04:23
• Total Runtime 51:07

Info for Both Sides Now

In celebration of her 50th (!) career, grande dame of jazz Marjorie Barnes and the Millennium Jazz Orchestra led by Joan Reinders join forces on the new album Both Sides Now (ZenneZ Records). The chosen repertoire, with a nod to the American Songbook, is diverse with many different colours and variations, with Reinders giving the arrangements her own twist. Most of the songs Marjorie has sung in different decades of her life: "Like Joni Mitchell with Both Sides Now ... if you listen how she sang it in the 70s and listen how she sings it now, it sounds totally different. And that's how I feel and do it too." With all her vocal prowess and personality, Barnes presents these songs together with the Millennium Jazz Orchestra, complemented by wonderful stories and lyrics that paint a period picture from the 1920s to the 1980s.

Marjorie was born and raised in New York, where she sang in Broadway musicals such as Hair, I Love My Wife and Dreamgirls. She then became a singer in California for the well-known group The Fifth Dimension, with which she came to the Netherlands in 1975. Barnes worked with big names like Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr. and Billy Eckstein; as well as jazz/funk trumpeter Tom Browne, bassists John Clayton and Marcus Miller, and drummer Mel Lewis. Marjory's marriage was the reason to stay in the Netherlands and teach at conservatoires. She has a beautiful, full voice and previously recorded the album Tenderly, a tribute to her great example Sarah Vaughan. Her passion for music now translates into a record she has long wanted to make, with a classic jazz big band.

The Millennium Jazz Orchestra has guaranteed unadulterated big band jazz for more than 30 years. The orchestra has developed into a professional big band with Dutch and German musicians, and has worked with international celebrities such as Toots Thielemans and Lee Konitz. The big band's home base is Theatre Bouwkunde in Deventer, which is transformed into a jazz club every month.

Marjorie Barnes, vocals
Millennium Jazz Orchestra
Joan Reinders, direction, arranger

Marjorie Barnes
was born and raised in New York City. Her career is spanning more than 30 years, leading her to New York’s Broadway (musicals as Hair, I Love My Wife, and Dreamgirls), California (where she joined the renowned pop group The Fifth Dimension as a lead vocalist) and London for a starring role in the West End production of Bubbling Brown Sugar. Marjorie made Europe her home; living first in England, then Paris, Vienna and finally settling in the Netherlands. She has worked with such great names as Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr., and Billy Eckstein; also with jazz/funk trumpeter Tom Browne, bassists John Clayton and Marcus Miller, and drummer Mel Lewis.

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