No One Ever Tells You Amy Cervini

• 1 I Don't Know 05:10
• 2 God Will 03:22
• 3 No One Ever Tells You 06:38
• 4 The Surrey with the Fringe on Top 06:44
• 5 Please Be Kind 03:47
• 6 A Good Man is Hard to Find 05:15
• 7 You Know Who! 05:24
• 8 Bye-Bye Country Boy 05:37
• 9 One for My Baby (and One More for the Road) 04:02
• 10 Hit the Road Jack 03:47
• Total Runtime 49:46

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Hailed by Time Out New York for "tearing down boundaries between old and new jazz styles, rock, pop, country and more," Toronto-born, New York-based vocalist Amy Cervini follows up her 2014 Anzic release Jazz Country with the gritty, blues-oriented No One Ever Tells You. Joined by her brilliant longtime cohorts Jesse Lewis (guitar), Michael Cabe (piano), Matt Aronoff (bass), Jared Schonig (drums) and special guest organist Gary Versace (on four cuts), Cervini puts her stamp on songs "that have resonated with me as a mother, as a partner, and as a woman," she writes in her album notes. "They are songs about love, struggle, and empowerment."

"Both the vocal and instrumental performances on No One Ever Tells You are glorious. But it is the unremitting melancholy of with which Miss Cervini treats a classic idiom, turning every song into an evocative tableau that is the signature element of this disc to die for."

Amy Cervini, vocals
Jesse Lewis, guitar
Michael Cabe, piano
Matt Aronoff, bass
Jared Schonig, drums
Gary Versace, Hammond B3 organ (1, 2, 8, 9)

Amy Cervini
The New York Times has described Amy Cervini as “a thoughtful and broad-minded jazz singer," and DownBeat Magazine called her Anzic album Digging Me, Digging You: A Tribute to Blossom Dearie “a gem." Cervini's two previous solo albums - Love Fool (2009, Orange Grove) and Famous Blue (2007, Orange Grove) - saw the vocalist range interpretively from Cole Porter, Billie Holiday and Leonard Cohen to the Cardigans, Feist and Depeche Mode. Live, she has performed in clubs and concert halls from Toronto to Tel Aviv and in prime New York venues from the 55 Bar, Cornelia Street Cafe, Joe's Pub and the Knitting Factory to the Jazz Standard, Birdland, the Blue Note and Carnegie Hall. The Ottawa Citizen declared that “the ex-pat Canadian sings terrific, gimmick-free jazz [with a] poise, intelligence and an unforced honesty that makes every song ring like it was her own."

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