Skonberg, Bria / What It Means
Album: What It Means   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Skonberg, Bria   Added:Aug 2024
Label:Cellar Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2024-08-24 Pull Date: 2024-10-26 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Oct 27 Oct 20 Oct 13 Sep 22 Sep 8 Sep 1
Airplays: 1 1 1 1 1 2

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 09, 2024: Music Casserole
The Beat Goes On
4. Oct 08, 2024: Traditions
Days Like This
2. Oct 22, 2024: Traditions
Days Like This
5. Sep 17, 2024: Traditions
Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) / A Child Is Born
3. Oct 15, 2024: Traditions
Elbow Bump
6. Sep 03, 2024: Traditions
Petite Fleur

Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2024-08-18
JAZZ: BAND W/ VOCALS

Bria Skonberg, a Canadian-born trumpet player / composer / singer, gives us a nice sampler containing a few of her own original compositions, a couple jazz classics, and some popular-song covers. Her singing is good, but not exceptional; her arrangements and trumpet parts are stronger. She’s backed by a tight, New Orleans based ensemble.

FCC clean

1 * mid-slow slinky intro, then a fun up-tempo syncopated scamper; instrumental (4:30)
2 Amos Lee’s old-timey novelty song, sung by Bria in a cutie-pie style (3:40)
3 slow ballad. Bria singing, lightly comp’d by guitar, piano, bass; trumpet solo (4:13)
4 mid-fast; Sonny & Cher’s 1960s hit gets a soulful hard-bop treatment (6:50)
5 * mid-tempo; pleasant straight-ahead jazz. Skonberg original; instrumental (6:21)
6 * fast. Impressively faithful redo of a 1920s Louis Armstrong tune; instrumental (4:44)
7 ** slow then mid-tempo. warm & lovely interpretation of a John Lennon song (5:27)
8 ** mid-fast. snappy cover of a Van Morrison song. Good guest vox. Extended band (3:23)
9 * slow. instrumental classic by Sidney Bechet. strong trumpet, nice bass clarinet (4:35)
10 ** fast. lively & syncopated instrumental romp. Good solos all around (7:05)
11 ** very slow. medley of two beautiful lullabies: by Billy Joel and by jazz trumpet great Thad Jones; Bria’s nicest vocal & best trumpet solo. Syrupy sweet but gorgeous (4:29)

Track Listing
1. Comes Love (4:28)   6. Cornet Chop Suey (4:43)
2. Sweet Pea (3:40)   7. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) (5:05)
3. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? (4:11)   8. Days Like This (3:20)
4. The Beat Goes On (6:49)   9. Petite Fleur (4:36)
5. In The House (6:21)   10. Elbow Bump (7:03)
  11. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) / A Child Is Born (4:29)