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ARTIST: TODD GORDON
Title: Ballads From The Midnight Hotel

Label: Hemba Records
Catalogue No: HRTG 10653

Personnel:
TODD GORDON, vocals; DAVID PATRICK, piano/keyboards; ALEC DANKWORTH, bass; MARK FLETCHER, drums/percussion; GUY BARKER, trumpet/flugel (tracks 7,8,10); JOHN PARRICELLI, guitar (tracks 4,5,6,9,11,13,14); STEVE RUBIE, flute (track 9); GABRIELLA SWALLOW, cello (tracks 3,4,6,8); IAN SHAW, backing vocals (tracks 4,14)/piano (track 15); JACQUI DANKWORTH, vocals (track 4).

Track Listing:

1. Where Or When (Rodgers/Hart); 2. Everything Must Change (Ighner); 3. Hotel (Keating/Quine); 4. If You Could Read My Mind (Lightfoot); 5. Indiscreet (Cahn/Van Heusen); 6. I Get Along Without You Very Well (Carmichael/Thompson); 7. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (Mann/Hilliard); 8. Somewhere In My Heart (Frame); 9. To Love And Be Loved (Cahn/Van Heusen); 10. The Second Time Around (Cahn/Van Heusen); 11. The Good Life (Distel/Reardon); 12. Glad To Be Unhappy (Rodgers/Hart); 13. Come In From The Rain (Manchester/Bayer Sager); 14. In My Life (Lennon/McCartney); 15. It's Impossible (Manzanero/Wayne)

Listen to mp3 sample of 'If You Could Read My Mind' (featuring Jacqui Dankworth)
Listen to mp3 sample of 'I Get Along Without You Very Well'

The follow-up to "Love's Illusions", this album once again features award-winning singer Ian Shaw in the producer's chair. Highlight is a duet with Jacqui Dankworth and other musicians featured include John Parricelli, Alec Dankworth and Guy Barker.

Advertised in 10th Anniversary Issue of Jazzwise magazine

His media performances include live broadcasts on BBC Radio 2 and 3, several BBC regional programmes and many local radio stations as well as appearing on Scottish Television. His 2006 album, LOVE'S ILLUSIONS - produced by the exceptionally talented Ian Shaw - won him considerable praise and radio play, and three ballads from the CD were immediately selected for SmoothFM's evening play list over a six month period.

"A very good CD"
-Michael Parkinson CBE On Todd's previous album, LOVE'S ILLUSIONS:

"I hope that Todd’s new album gets lots of airplay; it certainly deserves to"
-Desmond Carrington, BBC Radio 2

"Classic jazz songs delivered with panache...velvet voice"
-The Times

"An outstanding singer"
-Claire Martin