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Highly experienced jazz collaborators vocalist Lucianne Evans and pianist Tom Coppola produce a fabulous debut studio effort. Swing percentage high with lightening fast original vocalese, steamy latin, and colorful ballads. Straight-ahead rhythm section of Drori Mondlak and Ralph Hamperian (of the Danny Mixon Trio) heat up most of the cuts, while Brazilian section of Paulo Braga (Jobim, and solo Blue Note artist), Cafe (Nasciemento, Djavan), and Leo Traversa (Joyce, New York Voices) set the rest ablaze. Flamingo was recorded in three, four hour sessions (twelve hours) in July 2000, at Acoustic Recording, in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. The recording was expertly engineered by Acoustic Recording owner Michael Brorby. In the original session, twenty songs were recorded, fourteen were mixed, and eleven were chosen. This selection represents a typical evening with Evans & Coppola, the Carolinas modern jazz warriors. Lucianne and Tom find great joy in interpreting hundreds of standards, and in writing their own materil. In writing and performing, Lucianne ventures onto "the singer's high wire"-her specialty- an art form called vocalese. Interpreting an existing jazz solo through intimate familiarity with the piece, she thrills audiences by singing lyrics to each note. This CD explores it's deepest roots on the title cut, "Flamingo;" "Where or When," her original vocalese; and Evans & Coppola's original, "Hold Back the Rain." Inspired by the beauty of living and performing in the mountain paradise of Asheville, NC, Flamingo is a walk through both nature and modern jazz.