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title: "Live at Chans"
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# Live at Chans

**Brand:** rebecca parris
**Price:** ₨480
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## Description

In the jazz world, the town of Woonsocket, Rhode Island has two claims to fame: it's native pianist Dave McKenna, who studied music with the nuns there in the 1940's; and Chan's a Chinese restaurant with a weekend jazz policy that has endured since the late '70's. Chan's is located at 267 Main Street in the heart of downtown Woonsocket, but at night the neighborhood feels like one of the more desolate stops on the jazz map. The parking lot across the street clears out; the nearby antique shops, tattoo parlor, and train depot are all dark. Yet some of the hippest sounds in New England come from Chan's. Mark Murphy has recited Kerouac and sung miles Davis's Boplicity there; Dizzy Gillespie played the room in 1987 for his seventieth birthday; McKenna, Gary Burton, and Carol Sloane are regulars. But Chan's number-one daughter is Rebecca Parris. In 1985, when she made Live at Chan's, her decade-long apprenticeship as a top-40 club singer wasn't far behind her. Jazz, not rock, was Rebecca's true calling: a fact confirmed at the recording session, when she played to a room jammed to double capacity. The audience heard a singer with a bold tenor saxophone of a voice, disarming confidence, and an R&B-tinged jazz sense that won her the admiration of Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, and Shirley Horn. 'Everybody can feel Rebecca's presence', owner John Chan says of this tall, imposing blonde, 'Things happen when she walks in a room.' The songs here are some of the most familiar in pop-jazz, but Rebecca's warmth and soulfulness give them each a personal stamp. She improvises freely, but always at the service of the lyric: a value inspired by McRae, whose 1980 duo album with George Shearing, Two for the Road, had a major impact on Rebecca. More Than You Know, borrowed from that disc, shows off the earthiness that she and McRae share. My Melancholy Baby is unjustly known as a creaky request tune; Rebecca's smoldering performance restores it's original beauty. Her six accompanists-trombonist Phil Wilson, trumpeter Greg Gisbert, multi-reed player Scott Robinson, pianist Paul Schmeling, bassist Marshall Wood, and drummer Marty Richards-all share her sensitivity, while giving her a strong rhythmic push. Rebecca's own strength shines through on Blue Monk, a tough song of perseverance composed by Thelonious Monk, with a lyric that Abbey Lincoln wrote to sing on the 1961 album Straight Ahead. (Lincoln defined 'monkery' as 'the act of self-searching, like a monkey does.'). Angel Eyes brings out the pathos in most singers, but not in Rebecca, who quickens the pace and adds a defiant edge. 'It's a feminist mindset, I guess,' she explains. 'When I think of somebody messin' around on me, I don't get sad, I get angry!' For all those who are awaiting their next-or first- chance to hear Rebecca in person, Live at Chan's is sure to raise the anticipation. -James Gavin New York City, 1998.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A master musician with a message
*by J***T on November 1, 2000*

No true lover of jazz vocals could walk out of a Rebecca Parris set without being moved, invigorated, and converted to a fan, and even those uninitiated to the elemental power of song as an entertainment medium would be hard-pressed to leave untouched.Paul Simon said improvisation is too good to leave to chance, and yet you are never sure between Rebecca's absolute command of her material and her consummate mastery of harmony, melody and style whether such music ever existed beyond that moment.But you are sure she has considered with great care every nuance of every idea she brings out of both ballads and up-tempo numbers as she searches your soul for the buttons and pushes them with a rare combination of tenderness and joie de vivre.Rebecca Parris is a messenger of the meaning of life expressed through jazz music at its very best, an artist whose circle of influence can only grow wide as she hits her stride.This live recording on her regular local circuit, where she is both giving and receiving at full bandwidth, captures her performances at their most sophisticated and most real.The doorman of a club she packed in Boston nailed the sentiment of the room: Rebecca? She's got it goin' on!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ GREAT live performance of GREAT music.
*by P***1 on June 4, 2000*

Tremendous live recording that really captures the energy of a tight group of musicians (especially pianist) and a terrific vocalist. This is my first introduction to Rebecca Parris and I'm totally impressed-looking forward to seeing her in peson one day- but it can't be any better than THIS CD!

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