For those unaware, April Varner’s much anticipated debut album for Cellar Music, entitled April was produced by Grammy-Award winning drummer, producer and educator, Ulysses Owens Jr.

Supported by a wonderful band including Russell Malone, Benny Benack III, Dayna Stephens, Theo Bleckmann, Reuben Rogers, Miguel Russell and Caelan Cardello, April shows why she was the 2023 Winner of the International Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition, and a voice you won’t soon forget.

1. April Blues
2. I’ll Remember April
3. Joy Of April
4. April Come She Will
5. April, Give Me One More Day
6. April Again
7. Sometimes It Snows In April
8. Dear April
9. April in Paris
10. Lost April
11. Who Let April Back Into My Dreams?

The NYC-based jazz vocalist with the curly red hair from Toledo, Ohio, April opens her new recording up on the upright bass-led April Blues and then the drums lead us cinematically into I’ll Remember April, the spirited Joy Of April, with both the languishing beauty of April Come She Will and the low slung lushness of April, Give Me One More Day along next.

Along next is the upbeat and playfully confident, Hammond organ-hued April Again which is in turn backed by the elegant balladry of Sometimes It Snows In April, the emotive Dear April, an all-embracing April in Paris, the set rounding out on the a decadent Lost April, coming to a close on the thoroughly resplendent Who Let April Back Into My Dreams?.

Official Purchase Link

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