MP3 Kid Wezel - Shady Blues
This is an eclectic collection of original songs in a mostly jazzy/bluesy vein, all different, you will not be bored.
11 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Jazzy Blues, JAZZ: Jazz Vocals
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Description
Kid Wezel is the alter ego of Wezel and Shady Rosy. She is a Canadian singer/songwriter based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Kid Wezel tries to avoid performing in public except for a few friendly jams, and would much prefer to record her material in the studio.
Recently, thanks to the borderless quality of cyberspace, she has been able to carry out various internet collaborations with other artists. Track 1, Shady Rosy, Track 5, Season of Your Heart, Track 7, Freight Train with Burnin'' Vernon, Track 9, Ridin'' Around With the Rag Top Down, and Track 11, Set in Sand, are all internet collaborations to a greater or lesser extent.
Group Members
Tim Johns (the lead guitar player for a Toronto group called the Meteors) has done guitar arrangements for many of her demos. Tim has been doing all the recording for Kid Wezel since 2003. In 2003, she hooked up with jazz bassist Alfred Gertler who has done some song arranging for her. Alfred can be heard on Tracks 2 and 3.
In 2004 she started working with bassist/multi instrument musician Michel Plourde, you can hear Michel on Siren Call.
Jazz pianist Ron Davis and Sax player Patricia Wheeler, have also contributed to Wezel songs... You can hear Ron on and Patricia on Lay the Blame and Cry Cry Cry.
More recently she hooked up with bassist Tony Laviola. Tony hasn''t recorded anything yet, but the hope is that he will do so soon.
Style
Kid Wezel loves many different genres of music and likes to write in various styles : Jazz, blues, country, world and folk, pop, rock, electronic, funk.
Influences
Wendy Carlos, Beethoven, Grieg, Wagner, Mussorsky, Dvorjak, Debussy, Nash the Slash, Kraftwerk, Stan Rogers, Patsy Cline, Petula Clark, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Nat King Cole, R.L. Burnside, The Four Lads, The Everly Brothers, Elvis Presley, Sarah Vaughn, Beatles, Billy Joel, Carlos Jobim, Joe Walsh, The Eagles, and the list goes on....
Sounds like
Kid Wezel''s singing has been compared to Blossom Dearie, Patsy Kline, and Norah Jones, but most agree that she has a style of her own and a sweet and sonorous voice.