Jazz Vocalist Laird Jackson to Release New Album “Life”

Alternative Jazz Vocalist/Composer
Laird Jackson’s Latest Release “Life”
Features A Spectacular List Of
Award-Winning Musicians

An original to the core, Laird asserts that whenever you sing, you’re giving voice to your soul. She spreads her emotional soundscape wide. She dives deep into dramatic mystery, quiet romance, elemental wonder, profound sadness, ruminative ecstasy, improvisational beauty and the dreamy tug between longing within and pushing outward away from all boundaries to find freedom.

Laird’s artistic certitude and freedom arrives beginning from her debut album (1994’s Quiet Flame on Venus) to her second (2002’s Touched) through to its emergence with so much gravitas on her 3rd alternative Jazz album (2024’s Life). Laird doesn’t apologize about her hiatus. “Life happened,” says the Cleveland-born, Detroit-bred, New York based artist. “I didn’t stop living. I traveled, I wrote, I recorded on other people’s projects. I stepped back from the business side to deal with the unexpected twists and turns that happened.”

With 15 tracks (only 5 of which are covers) taking the listener on a 74 minute genre-bending journey through a cinematic sonic landscape, Life paints a colorful image that is cohesively held together by Laird’s beautiful voice. Produced by Grammy. winner and percussionist extraordinaire, Jeff Haynes (Pat Metheny, Cassandra Wilson, Brandi Carlile) this new album will tingle your senses.

Photography by Vital Agibalow for Hensel. Publishing by LairdSongs (ASCAP)

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Artist Website: www.LairdJacksonMusic.com
Release Date: November 1, 2024
Label: Self-Produced

TRACK LISTING

1. I Believe 5:25
2. Suhaili 5:56
3. Dusk 4:45
4. Make a Smile for Me 5:49
5. Destiny 5:42
6. In the Pines 3:51
7. The River 4:59
8. Rainbows 3:01
9. Rounding the Sun 5:26
10. The Wind 4:19
11. Life 4:24
12. World of Dreams 4:49
13. Tender as a Rose 4:22
14. Wild is the Wind 5:37
15. Follow 5:07

Laird Jackson (vocals)
Jeff Haynes (percussion)
Marvin Sewell, John Smith and C Lanzbom (guitar)
Gregoire Maret (harmonica)
Michael Manring (bass)
Charlie Burnham (violin)
Premik Russell Tubbs (sax/EWI)
Brandon Ross (guitar)
Eugene Friesen (cello)
Jennifer DeFrayne (piano)
Sean Harkness (guitar/bass)
Doug Weiss (bass)
Candace Coates (harp)

Produced, Recorded and Orchestrated by Jeff Haynes. Executive Producer: Laird Jackson. Mixed and Mastered by Corin Nelsen at SynchroSonic Productions.

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