Whitney: "They Oughta Write A Song" is an excellent well rounded vocal jazz album, How Did you go about choosing the collection of standards that are on there?
Halie: Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy it... and thanks for asking me to participate in your blog! It's a pleasure.
The standards that are featured on "They Oughta Write a Song" were chosen for a variety of reasons... some of the songs are ones that I have been performing for many years, and felt like natural fits for me vocally and for the musicians that are featured on the album. "Summertime", for example, is a song that I've been performing since I was 12 years old, and is one that I've loved singing from that first performance of the song (which was at the Spring Recital assembly at my middle school in Sitka, Alaska). For me, it was included for its nostalgic value as much as anything... and I thought it fit well in the context of the rest of the album.
Halie: Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy it... and thanks for asking me to participate in your blog! It's a pleasure.
The standards that are featured on "They Oughta Write a Song" were chosen for a variety of reasons... some of the songs are ones that I have been performing for many years, and felt like natural fits for me vocally and for the musicians that are featured on the album. "Summertime", for example, is a song that I've been performing since I was 12 years old, and is one that I've loved singing from that first performance of the song (which was at the Spring Recital assembly at my middle school in Sitka, Alaska). For me, it was included for its nostalgic value as much as anything... and I thought it fit well in the context of the rest of the album.
